The Roles and Function of Parliamentary Questions

ISBN-13: 9780415669801 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 168 str.

Shane Martin; Olivier Rozenberg

Opis

This volume advances our theoretical and empirical knowledge of the use of questioning in a number of different parliamentary settings. The propensity of parliamentarians to ask questions indicates that the interrogatories are an important tool for measuring an individual legislator's job.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Parliamentary Questions, the Behaviour of Legislators, and the Function of Legislatures: An Introduction  Shane Martin  2. Parliamentary Questions as Instruments of Substantive Representation: Visible Minorities in the UK House of Commons, 2005–10  Thomas Saalfeld  3. The Constituency as a Focus of Representation: Studying the Italian Case through the Analysis of Parliamentary Questions  Federico Russo  4. People’s Voice or Information Pool? The Role of, and Reasons for, Parliamentary Questions in the Swiss Parliament  Stefanie Bailer  5. Parliamentary Questions in Belgium: Testing for Party Discipline  Régis Dandoy  6. Constituency Influence on ‘Constituency Members’: The Adaptability of Roles to Electoral Realities in the Canadian Case  Kelly Blidook and Matthew Kerby  7. Not Only a Battleground: Parliamentary Oral Questions Concerning Defence Policies in Four Western Democracies  Olivier Rozenberg, Olivier Chopin, Catherine Hoeffler, Bastien Irondelle and Jean Joana  8. Questioning in European Parliaments  Manuel Sánchez de Dios and Matti Wiberg  9. Bureaucrats in the Headlights: Question Times and Delegation to Bureaucrats  Rob Salmond  10. Behavioural Consequences of Restrictions on Plenary Access: Parliamentary Questions in the Norwegian Storting  Bjørn Erik Rasch  11. Conclusion: Questioning Parliamentary Questions  Olivier Rozenberg and Shane Martin

O autorze

Shane Martin is Director of the Centre for International Studies at Dublin City University where he also lectures in comparative politics. His research focuses on the political economy of legislative organization and in particular on how electoral incentives shape representatives’ preferences, the internal structures of parliaments, executive oversight and the production of public policy. He have taught at the University of California, San Diego and the Pennsylvania State University. He is founding Co-Convenor of the ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments and was founding Co-Director of the European Summer School on Parliaments. Olivier Rozenberg is Associate Research Professor at Sciences Po, in Paris. He is a member of the Centre for European Studies. His research focuses on the study of political institutions and particularly of legislatures in Europe (national parliaments and the European Parliament). Within this framework, he studies both the sociology of legislators and the policy analysis of parliamentary activities. He is also interested in the Europeanisation of national political systems and the politicisation of European affairs.