Mapping and Explaining Parliamentary Rule Changes in Europe: A Research Program

Author(s)
Ulrich Sieberer, Peter Meißner, Julia F. Keh, Wolfgang Claudius Müller
Abstract

We outline a comprehensive research program on institutional reforms in

European parliaments. Original data show that parliamentary rules in

Western European parliaments have been changed frequently and massively

during the period from 1945 to 2010 suggesting that actors use

institutional reforms as a distinct strategy to pursue their substantive

goals. We discuss how institutional instability affects existing

theoretical and empirical arguments about institutional effects.

Furthermore, we present four ideal-typical approaches to analyzing rule

changes, present new software tools for identifying and coding changes

in large text corpora, and demonstrate their usefulness for valid

measurement of the overall change between subsequent text versions.

Organisation(s)
Department of Government
External organisation(s)
Universität Konstanz
Journal
Legislative Studies Quarterly
Volume
41
Pages
61-88
No. of pages
28
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12106
Publication date
2015
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
506014 Comparative politics
Keywords
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Social Sciences(all)
Portal url
https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/mapping-and-explaining-parliamentary-rule-changes-in-europe-a-research-program(52d06c92-1213-4a80-8519-c4c4ef61d991).html