Methodological Advances in Parliamentary Research

Abstract

The panel focuses on recent methodological advances. For example, this includes text-as-data approaches which make use of the growing availability of the digital documentation of parliamentary activities as well as of the behaviour of MPs on social media. Additionally, new methodological approaches that address questions of representation and decision-making in a novel manner also comprise experiments, the analysis of voting-advice applications, or network analysis. The panel invites papers that apply or discuss the use of innovative methods within parliamentary studies.

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Agenda-Setting in Parliamentary Speeches: A computer based content analysis of legislative debates in the Austrian Nationalrat	View Paper Details
From ideology to bargaining space: estimating the overlaps of party positions	View Paper Details
Immigration and the securitization of what? A semi-supervised approach for multi-class classification of debates in the German Bundestag 1990-2020	View Paper Details
Is Twitter representative for German parliamentary networks? An inter-parliamentary, multi-level analysis	View Paper Details