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 …

The ability of parliamentarians to ask questions of members of the executive either in written
form or on the floor of the chamber is a feature of many legislatures. Parliamentary questions …

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 …

Does the growing descriptive representation of minority-ethnic legislators in the British
House of Commons have any implications for the substantive representation of minority …

Spanish politics has been transformed. Using new techniques, this book looks at 30 years of
Spanish political history to understand party competition, the impact of the EU, media …

Black, Asian and minority-ethnic (BAME) citizens are under-represented in the House of
Commons. Nevertheless, the Chamber's ethnic composition has become more reflective of …

Parliamentarians differ widely in the degree to which they devote attention to their
geographical constituency. An analysis of parliamentary questions offers a precious …

This article argues that government parties can use parliamentary questions to monitor
coalition partners in order to reduce agency loss through ministerial drift. According to this …

Ethnic minority women tend to be better represented in parliaments than ethnic minority
men. What does this mean for their substantive representation? This article makes use of …

The conclusion highlights the heuristic potential of Parliamentary Questions (PQs) and
suggests that they should form an important unit of analysis for scholars of legislative …