Parliamentary libraries serve parliamentary institutions on a national or local level. Usually they are founded at the same time as the parliament itself and organized according to the parliamentary model of the country in which they are located. The parliamentary library’s mission is to support and facilitate parliamentary activities and make available all useful sources of information to the ...

Politics and media are heavily intertwined and both play a role in the discussion on policy proposals and current affairs. However, a dataset that allows a joint analysis of the two does not yet exist. In this paper we take the first step by discovering links between parliamentary debates in a political dataset and newspaper articles in a media dataset. Our approach consists of 3 steps. We firs...

This article discusses the construction of social policies aimed at working women as mothers in Argentina. Thus, we examine the legal corpus, the scope of legislation, and the criticisms of its implementation coming from civil society and from medical, legal and political circles. We focus on the debate about the creation of the Caja de Maternidad (1934) and the shifts in the discussions regard...

This paper sets out the challenges facing the English NHS now and in the future and identifies the reforms we believe are needed to meet these challenges. It has been written as a contribution to the listening exercise initiated by the coalition government following the announcement at the beginning of April of a pause in the parliamentary passage of the Health and Social Care Bill. It builds o...

This essay addresses the methodology of philosophy of science and illustrates how formal and empirical methods can be fruitfully combined. Special emphasis is given to the application of experimental methods to confirmation theory and to recent work on the conjunction fallacy, a key topic in the rationality debate arising from research in cognitive psychology. Several other issue can be studied...

A central assumption of deliberative theory is that political preferences are endogenous to decision-making processes in which they are transformed by communicative interaction. We identify discursiveness and coordinativeness of interaction as central determinants of preference change and develop a typology of political modes of interaction that affect the likelihood of preference change differ...