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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Shane Martin , Olivier RozenbergPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.470kg ISBN: 9780415669801ISBN 10: 0415669804 Pages: 168 Publication Date: 05 April 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. 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 MartinReviewsAuthor InformationShane 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |