[BOOK][B] Comparative policy agendas: Theory, tools, data

FR Baumgartner, C Breunig, E Grossman - 2019 - library.oapen.org
The Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) brings together data on government activities in
over twenty countries, and provides a consistent categorizing system to understand when a …

How much power do oppositions have? Comparing the opportunity structures of parliamentary oppositions in 21 democracies

JL Garritzmann - The Journal of Legislative Studies, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A political system cannot be imagined without opposition. Despite this crucial
position in politics, political science has largely neglected to study oppositions. Attempting to …

[BOOK][B] The state and civil society: Regulating interest groups, parties, and public benefit organizations in contemporary democracies

N Bolleyer - 2018 - books.google.com
State regulation of civil society is expanding yet widely contested, often portrayed as
illegitimate intrusion. Despite ongoing debates about the nature of state-voluntary relations …

Policy-making power of opposition players: a comparative institutional perspective

S Wegmann - The Journal of Legislative Studies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The organisation of legislative chambers and the consequences of parliamentary
procedures have been among the most prominent research questions in legislative studies …

Curtailing political short-termism in legislatures: a trade-off between influence and institutionalization?

V Koskimaa, T Raunio - European Journal of Futures Research, 2023 - Springer
Legislatures have recently started to invest in anticipatory governance. Alongside new
practices, they have introduced designated future committees and organs that connect MPs …

Fighting COVID-19 on democratic terms. Parliamentary functioning in Italy and Denmark during the pandemic

HH Pedersen, E Borghetto - Representation, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The COVID-19 pandemic challenged parliamentary decision-making, which is normally
based on time-consuming deliberation and scrutiny. We ask how national parliaments met …

[BOOK][B] Parlamentarismus: Eine Einführung

S Marschall - 2016 - books.google.com
Der Band führt in die Theorie und Praxis einer zentralen Organisationsform der Demokratie
ein, in den Parlamentarismus. Angesprochen werden die Geschichte und theoretischen …

The comparative agendas project: Intellectual roots and current developments

FR Baumgartner, C Breunig, E Grossman - 2019 - kops.uni-konstanz.de
The introductory chapter responds to several goals. It first provides some historical elements
concerning the emergence and the development of the Comparative Agendas Project …

Shadow chairs as monitoring device? A comparative analysis of committee chair powers in Western European parliaments

U Sieberer, D Höhmann - The Journal of Legislative Studies, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Recent work on coalition governance claims that government parties use the chairs of
parliamentary committees to 'shadow'ministers and thus to monitor coalition partners. This …

Parliamentary ethics regulation and trust in European democracies

N Bolleyer, V Smirnova - West European Politics, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
This article presents a three-dimensional conceptualisation of conflict of interest (COI)
regulation directed towards assuring the impartial and unbiased decision-making of …