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 …

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 …

Constituency service is a crucial concept for understanding the nature and intensity of the
links between representatives and their constituents. However, studies have been …

This article shifts the analysis of parliamentary oversight tools to the level of the political
party, asking how political parties make use of written parliamentary questions. It theorises …

The relationship between parliament and citizens has been neglected traditionally by the
legislative studies scholarship. And yet this is the area that has seen the most phenomenal …

The oversight of the executive is a key function of parliament, and is central to the
relationship between branches of government. Recently, however, the influence of …

This article: Demonstrates that use of written parliamentary questions by British MPs is
influenced by electoral context. Shows that as the margin of victory in prior election …

This article asks whether and why, in a system lacking electoral incentives to cultivate
personal votes, MPs might choose to signal to geographic constituents. It explores this …

Over time, people have been losing interest in politics. Some believe this to be one of the
largest challenges facing democracy today. What causes some citizens to be more engaged …

A growing number of countries have granted their emigrant citizens the right to vote in
homeland elections from afar. Yet, there is little understanding of the extent to which …