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
- General Social Sciences
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/52d06c92-1213-4a80-8519-c4c4ef61d991