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 …

Under the motto" God, homeland, and family"-but also by stressing one further important
marker of social identity, ie, gender-Italian radical right party leader Giorgia Meloni multiplied …

Question time represents one of the most relevant institutional arenas where parties
compete to get their favourite issues on the parliamentary agenda. Parties select which …

The identification of problem information is an important driver of political attention in
parliament. This is widely acknowledged in the literature on party competition but there has …

This article uses the concept of policy polarisation to understand the short and conflictual life
of the Conte I cabinet which remained in office in Italy from June 2018 to September 2019 …

This article addresses the question of whether populist parties behave differently from other
political parties in parliament. Building on the attention-based perspective of the study of …

In this work, we present an intelligent system for the automatic categorization of political
documents, specifically the documents containing the parliamentary questions collected …

The goal of this chapter is to explain how policymakers prioritize issues across time and
countries, focusing on one specific type of parliamentary activity: oral questions in plenary …

This book examines the content of MPs' activities through which parliamentarians generate
representative claims. Challenging the idea that studying individual representation is a futile …

Given the presence of a variety of political conditions, Portugal provides an excellent
opportunity to understand which factors could affect the opposition's behaviour and …