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Finnish parliamentary speeches dataset [PDF]

open access: yesScientific Data
In 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Parliamentarily speaking: A thematic analysis of Kerala Legislative Assembly questions relating to health from 2016 to 2021 [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
Introduction: 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Parliamentary Questions in Belgium: Testing for Party Discipline

open access: yesJournal 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.
Regis Dandoy
exaly   +3 more sources

Gender and Strategic Opposition Behavior: Patterns of Parliamentary Oversight in Belgium

open access: yesPolitics 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
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding oversight through parliamentary questions: The European Parliament in the Economic and Monetary Union

open access: yesEuropean Union Politics
Although 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 8 th ...
Marta Migliorati
exaly   +3 more sources

Parliamentary Questions in Turkey [PDF]

open access: yesThe 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
openaire   +2 more sources

Development and Validation of a Corpus of Written Parliamentary Questions in the Hellenic Parliament

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

A Pragmatic Analysis of Responses in Malaysian Parliamentary Discourse

open access: yesJournal of Pragmatics Research, 2022
This study employs the framework of responses proposed by Harris (1991), the notion of implicature as defined by Thomas (1995), and the dimensions of resistance introduced by Clayman (2001) to examine the types of responses in Malaysian Parliamentary ...
Najah Zainal Abidin, Jariah Mohd Jan
doaj   +1 more source

Parliamentary Questions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Abstract Do political parties increasingly engage in non-legislative parliamentary activities? To what extent is the range of issues addressed through parliamentary questioning becoming more diverse? Is overtime change in issue attention during question time incremental or rather stable and occasionally interspersed with radical ...
Borghetto, Enrico   +1 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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