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Parliamentary questions - utilizing policy making for improving health [PDF]
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2022 Harish Gupta
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Finnish parliamentary speeches dataset [PDF]
Scientific DataIn this Data Descriptor, we introduce a dataset on Finnish parliamentary speeches and the background characteristics of politicians who speak in the parliament.
Salla Simola +2 more
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Parliamentarily speaking: A thematic analysis of Kerala Legislative Assembly questions relating to health from 2016 to 2021 [PDF]
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary CareIntroduction: Legislative assemblies often provide a platform for legislators to question the government during question hours, which are crucial for governance However, question hours remain understudied, especially when addressing health policy and ...
Arsha Kochuvilayil +4 more
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Analyzing arguments on tobacco tax increases. Focus on French parliamentary questions and responses, 2000–2020 [PDF]
Tobacco Induced DiseasesIntroduction Tax increases are the most effective but still the least-used tobacco control measure. The tobacco industry (TI) employs lobbying strategies to oppose the implementation of tax policies on its products.
François Topart +2 more
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Parliamentary Questions in Belgium: Testing for Party Discipline
Journal of Legislative Studies, The, 2011 This contribution seeks to explain the numbers of written questions in the Belgian House of Representatives (1995–2007). Important variations over time, party and coalition formula have been observed and ‘classic’ explanations – such as the size of the parliamentary party group, the linguistic group or the majority vs.
Régis Dandoy
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Using parliamentary questions to measure constituency orientation [PDF]
, 2010 Individual legislators differ in the degree to which they work to cultivate personal votes. While conventional wisdom declares that the electoral system typically motivates the choice of legislative role, researchers have found difficulty assessing ...
Martin, Shane G.
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European Union PoliticsAlthough parliamentary questions are an essential tool of legislative oversight, there is limited research on their variation in holding governments accountable. In this article, we analyse a new dataset of 1393 oral questions posed by Members of the European Parliament during the 8th parliamentary term.
Adina Maricut-Akbik, Marta Migliorati
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Gender and Strategic Opposition Behavior: Patterns of Parliamentary Oversight in Belgium
Politics and Governance, 2023 Studies on strategic parliamentary opposition often focus on broader behavioral patterns or party‐level variation. This article analyzes differences at the individual level, more notably between male and female opposition members of parliament.
Benjamin de Vet, Robin Devroe
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Development and Validation of a Corpus of Written Parliamentary Questions in the Hellenic Parliament
Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2021 This paper presents the development of the first parliamentary corpus of written questions in the Hellenic Parliament. Moreover, we discuss a well-defined end-to-end process that has been streamlined and optimised to produce high-quality open text data ...
Fotios Fitsilis, George Mikros
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Parliamentary Questions in Turkey [PDF]
The Journal of Legislative Studies, 2007 Political reasons for asking, and consequences of, parliamentary questions in the Turkish parliament during the 19th legislative period (1991–95) were investigated. Political reasons for asking questions were inferred from attributes of questions including the party affiliation of questioners, question content, referred authorities, and constituency ...
Hazama, Y. +2 more
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