How much do the performances of top candidates in televised debates affect vote intentions parliamentary democracies? The article addresses this question and disentangles effects predisposition performance debate reception. Drawing on a large-N field study 2017 chancellor duel Germany, which contains survey real-time response data for 5660 participants, we identify debate-induced determinants s...

The question is addressed if opinion mining techniques can be successfully used to automatically retrieve political viewpoints in Dutch parliamentary publications. Two specific tasks are identified: automatically determining subjectivity in the publications and automatically determining the semantic orientation of the subjective parts. A collection of recent parliamentary publications has been ...

Canada, like Australia, is a federation and, like Australia, has a system of government based on British-derived parliamentary and monarchical traditions. But Canada’s structure of government differs in two important respects: it has no history of strong, elected upper houses in its state and federal parliaments and, since 1982, it has had a constitutionally entrenched Charter of Rights and Fre...

Parliamentary democracies represent a common type of governance structure in numerous countries. While details vary from one country to another, the structure of a parliamentary democracy entails having cabinet ministers who each have a specific portfolio of policy interests, such as healthcare, industry, or education. A set of ministers forms a government, and such governments can change due t...

ARECURRING question within contemporary democratic countries relates to whether parliamentary immunity only serves to protect the interests of representatives, rather than the interests of those they were elected to represent. With every act that is suspected of being corrupt (for example, accepting a bribe in return for asking a question or delivering a speech in parliament, failure to declare...

Abstract Why did British politicians on both sides of the Atlantic propose a confederal rather than incorporating union in 1754? This question has been difficult to answer because most scholars have focused Albany Plan Union outside its imperial context, seeing plan either evidence nascent American nationalism, point divergence between and conceptions empire, or missed moment establish parliame...

Pakistan’s parliamentary libraries reflect the challenges that the democratic institutions they serve have faced since independence in 1947. This article provides a historical context to the development of the bicameral parliament in Pakistan and four provincial assemblies. It describes the founding and development of parliamentary library and research services in that context and presents some...

Parliaments are the central institutions in the democratic forms of governments. Many parliaments, particularly in the lower middle income and low-income countries, perform poorly and tend to be closed institutions. They do not exchange timely information with the citizens. Parliamentary websites can assist the parliaments in opening up and interacting with the citizens to represent the real wi...

This paper examines the effect of party primaries on women’s chances winning a leadership contest in eight Western parliamentary countries since 1985. By doing so, we revisit an ongoing debate about possible trade-off between democratic values ‘inclusion’ members and ‘representation’ excluded groups that this type selection method may involve. Using original data set consisting 608 candidates w...