Advances in the empirical research of legislatures

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.

Title	Details
Signaling to voters? Conceptual problems of testing signaling models in legislative studies	View Paper Details
The Deliberative Constitution: Lotteries in Denmark's 1848 Constituent Assembly	View Paper Details
How legislators respond to citizens in times of crisis. A Field Experiment with Members of the 19. German Bundestag during the Covid-19 pandemic	View Paper Details
Interrogating the Opposition? The Use of Blue-Card Questions in the European Parliament	View Paper Details