Does social background affect legislators’ behavior in office? Do individuals with specific social ties tend to be mainly concerned with representing their group of reference, beyond partisanship? This article deals with these questions by analyzing bill-drafting patterns by representatives in the Argentine Congress who belong to an understudied group: workers. The wide presence of a broad, populist party (Peronism) that historically incorporated organized labor, along with other groups, provides consistent variation for empirical assessment. Evidence demonstrates that only labor-based representatives in general, regardless of party membership, tend to use legislative resources to target workers, while every other member of the populist party does not consider labor issues at all in their legislative tasks. Such findings open new directions for analysis of representation, legislative performance, and strategies developed by dissimilar groups in broad political organizations.

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分工还是工会？分析阿根廷国会中的工人代表

社会背景会影响立法者在职的行为吗？具有特定社会关系的个人是否倾向于主要关注代表他们的参考群体，而不是党派？本文通过分析属于一个未被充分研究的群体：工人的阿根廷国会代表的法案起草模式来处理这些问题。一个广泛的、民粹主义政党（庇隆主义）的广泛存在，历史上将有组织的劳工与其他团体结合在一起，为实证评估提供了一致的变化。有证据表明，一般而言，只有以劳工为基础的代表，无论其党员身份如何，都倾向于使用立法资源来针对工人，而民粹主义政党的所有其他成员在其立法任务中根本不考虑劳工问题。