Institutions, Procedures and Adjustment Processes During Crises and Beyond

Abstract

Crises seldom leave procedures untouched. This panel examines how legislatures and multi-level polities recalibrate institutional rules, procedural pathways, and agenda instruments in emergencies - and how those adjustments persist beyond the triggering shock. One paper develops a machine-learning framework to detect crisis-responsive initiatives even when a crisis is not named, combining signals from bill text (outlier provisions, temporariness and sunset structures, emergency-governance signatures) with institutional and procedural context (urgency framing, compressed deliberation, fast-track routes, bundling and sequencing). A second contribution analyses why Polish governments may prefer to route policy through bills formally introduced by MPs, treating parliamentary initiative as a supplement or substitute for executive sponsorship. A third paper traces how recurrent crises in Turkey normalize accelerated and omnibus lawmaking: it combines longitudinal evidence on legislative pathways with process-tracing of how exceptional tools become embedded in routine governance. Finally, a supranational perspective examines how the EU’s treaty bases and evolving crisis practices shape a new legislative and agenda-setting role under a permanent crisis, including the emergence of more organized “resilience” approaches. Together, the panel links measurement, strategic choice, and institutional drift to illuminate how crisis governance reconfigures procedure, scrutiny, and accountability over time. Speaks to when exceptions are temporary, layered onto rules, or institutionalized.

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Institutionalizing the Exception: Crisis Governance and Accelerated Lawmaking in Turkey	View Paper Details
The European Union - A New Supranational Legislative Agenda in Times of Permanent Crisis?	View Paper Details
Detecting Emergency Lawmaking with Machine Learning: A Multi-Source Model of Crisis-Responsive Legislative Initiatives	View Paper Details
Parliamentary Legislative Initiative – Supplement or Substitute for Government Legislative Policy: Case Study	View Paper Details