Parliamentary Affairs

Papers
(The median citation count of Parliamentary Affairs is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Representation of the UK Parliament’s Power in the National Media: Too Weak, or Too Strong?14
Shifting sands: Sources of voter volatility in the 2024 UK General Election in Scotland14
How to Deal with Executive Secrecy? Opposition Perspectives and Practices in the German Bundestag14
Leveraging automated technologies for law-making in Italy: Generative AI and constitutional challenges13
Understanding politicians’ discourse on inflation and cost of living in Canada9
You are unmuted: The impact of virtual arrangements on women and old age legislators’ participation during the COVID-19 pandemic8
Non-Legislative Actions and Party ‘Brand’: Evidence from the Mexican Congress8
ThePresentof Parliamentary and Legislative Studies6
Duration of coalition formation in the German states: Inertia and familiarity in a multilevel setting6
Fear-based self-legitimation in the institutional climate change discourse: Case study of the European Parliament’s online communication6
It’s Only Words? Analysing the Roots of the Irish Party System Using Historical Parliamentary Debates6
Editorial: On the Aims and Scope of Parliamentary Affairs5
Parliamentary questions to the House of Commons Commission: Accountability and parliamentary administration5
Democracy by algorithm? Public attitudes towards AI in parliamentary decision-making in the UK and Japan5
Correction to: Lobbying in the UK: Towards Robust Regulation5
Gender, Political Dynasties, and Committee Assignments: Evidence From Indonesia4
Candidates nomination strategy in a mixed electoral system: Evidence from the 2022 Italian general election4
Grassroots lobbying in Germany: Are moderately and greatly supported public petitions effective?4
Parliamentarians’ perspectives on parenthood and politics in Canada’s House of Commons4
Paralysed Governments: How Political Constraints Elicit Cabinet Termination4
Does Party Colour Matter? The Effect of Government Partisanship on Pledges’ Left–Right Location4
Using social media to communicate competence, ordinariness, and authenticity in political leadership4
‘We Can’t Afford to be a Branch Office’: The Territorial Dynamics of the British Labour Party, 2015–20194
An inexperienced parliament3
The Labour Party under Keir Starmer: Plotting the route to a shallow landslide3
Negative Interplay between Cabinet and Opposition Agendas: Evidence from Croatia3
The first TikTok election? Social media, generative AI, and data-driven campaigning in the 2024 UK General Election3
E-petitioning Parliament: Understanding the connections between citizens and the UK Parliament3
The Brexit realignment amid electoral volatility: The role of party blocs in the 2024 General Election3
Correction to: Populism as a centrist strategy for disqualification: The use of ‘populism(s)/populist(s)’ in Belgian, French and Spanish Parliaments3
Party finance: Labour exploits its advantage3
Working at home: Individual level drivers of MEPs’ focus on constituency work2
District Variation in Party System Competition and Women’s Candidacy in Proportional Representation Systems2
The 2024 UK General Election in Wales2
How (and when) does party matter? Explaining MPs’ positions on assisted dying/assisted suicide2
Transitional Support for Former Members of Parliament: Benchmarks for ‘Professional Parliaments’2
Shaping reform: the role of experts in the constitutional revision process. The case of Italy2
Moralism without populism? The salience of corruption in the electoral manifestos and legislature speeches of Czech and Slovak parties2
MPs, Outside Interests, and Corporate Boards: Too Busy to Serve?2
Practice makes ‘perfect’? The effect of committee specialization on the complexity of parliamentary speeches2
Disability inclusion in the House of Commons: A new institutionalism story2
Rational and ambitious legislators? Role theory, between open questions and new applicability2
Gauging the roles of parliamentary staff2
When politicians feel pressure to represent: Evidence from South Africa2
Critical Actors in a Dominant-Party Parliament? Representing Marginalised Communities in Singapore2
Implementing Public Accounts Committee Recommendations: Evidence from the UK Government’s ‘Progress Reports’ since 20122
An unstable Union? The Conservative Party, the British Political Tradition, and devolution in Scotland and Wales 2010–232
‘Trust the messenger’: Public trust in sources of information on COVID-191
An Analysis of the Group Bases of British Politics: 1983–20191
Populism as a centrist strategy for disqualification: The use of ‘populism(s)/populist(s)’ in Belgian, French and Spanish Parliaments1
Enduring inequalities in British politics: Muslim women in the Labour Party1
The Concept and Measurement of Legislative Backsliding1
There may be trouble ahead: Women’s representation, voters, and issues in the 2024 election campaign1
Law Making Activities during Lame Duck Sessions in Indonesia (1997–2020)1
The Party on Remote Ground: Disengaging and Disappearing?1
Northern Ireland: Sinn Féin completes a hat-trick1
Conclusion: A time to take stock1
The Domain of the Right? Explaining National Parliamentary Preferences on EU-Related Self-Empowerment1
Ethnic minority voters and the 2024 General Election1
The past, Present and Future of Parliamentary and Legislative Studies1
Do Members of Parliament Express More Opposition in the Plenary than in the Committee? Comparing Frontstage and Backstage Behaviour in Five National Parliaments1
How Does the Strength of the Far Right Affect Ethnic Minority Political Behaviour?1
A conceptual framework for understanding parliamentary skills and competences: bridging public policy and legislative studies1
Media coverage of feminine policy issues and electoral consequences: an analysis of mixed electoral system1
What Do We Call an ‘MP’? On Categories of Thought in the Anthropology of Parliaments1
Making the Case for More Politicians: A Survey Experiment to Investigate Public Attitudes to an Expanded Welsh Parliament1
Activation and co-optation: The strategic adoption of compulsory voting in Western Europe1
The State of the Sub-discipline: Mapping Parliamentary and Legislative Studies Using a Survey and Bibliometric Analysis of Three of Its Journals1
Rebels in Parliament: The Effects of Candidate Selection Methods on Legislative Behaviours1
The results: How Britain voted in 20241
Understanding the Emergence of Extreme Right Parties in Portugal in the Late 2010s1
Social media homophily among women and men political candidates1
Burden Reduction: An Evaluation of Statutory Instruments in the UK Government’s Regulatory Off-setting and Business Impact Target Initiatives 2010–20191
Questions to the Prime Minister in the Canadian House of Commons: Transformation or tweak?1
Ideological polarization in roll call votes in constitutional conventions: The case of Chile in 2021–21
Cleaning Up UK Politics: What Would Better Lobbying Regulation Look Like?1
The Irish general election of 2024: A battle lost before it was fought?1
The House of Commons Modernisation Committee: Revisiting past experience0
Selecting Sunak: Conservative MPs’ Nomination Preferences in the (Second) British Conservative Party Leadership Election0
From Scholz to Merz: The capricious politics of the post-Merkel German chancellorship0
Party leadership selection and party leaders’ powers: Empowered grassroots or leader-centric parties?0
Constituency representation as crisis leadership: Understanding the potential of policy, service, and symbolic connection-building in response to disasters0
Towards the Substantive Representation of Women: A Study of the Indonesian Women’s Parliamentary Caucus0
Big Little Election Lies: Cynical and Credulous Evaluations of Electoral Fraud0
Speaking for the Voiceless? Representative Claims-Making on Behalf of Future Generations in Belgium0
Slow burn: Re-examining the legacy of Conservative Party modernization0
Who lacks voter identification? The electoral implications of the Elections Act 20220
Better not to vote to restore democracy? Boycotting the 2023 national referendum as a manifestation of (anti)party identification: The case of Poles voting abroad0
Interrupting the interruptions. How women transform the parliamentary debate0
Incumbency and Identity: The 2021 Senedd Election0
Correction to: Democracy (Not) on Display: A Structural Collocation Analysis of the Mother of All Parliaments’ Reluctance to Broadcast Herself0
Friendly foes or enemies within? Assessing the (in)stability of coalition governments with populists in Europe0
Democracy (Not) on Display: A Structural Collocation Analysis of the Mother of All Parliaments’ Reluctance to Broadcast Herself0
Party fragmentation and problems of accountability in the British general election of 20240
Local roots and rebellion: Constituency connections and legislative behaviour of British MPs, 2010–210
Variegated Accountability: Devolved Public Accounts Committees in the UK0
Parliamentary Committees and Ex-post Oversight: Institutional Options and Design0
Custodians of the Palace of Westminster0
The electoral system: All a question of geography0
Correction to: Interrupting the interruptions. How women transform the parliamentary debate0
Tax, trip-ups, and transgressions: Reporting the 2024 UK General Election0
How to Convey Trustworthiness via Social Media: Content Analysis and Citizen Testing of British MPs’ Facebook Posts0
Speaking in Her Language: Cameron, Thatcher and Deficit Reduction under the Coalition Government, 2010–20150
Instability, crisis, and statecraft in Conservative Britain, 2010–240
Evaluating Parliamentary Academic Fellows0
Rewarding Some, But Not All? The Selectoral Consequences of Parliamentary Activity for Newcomers and Experienced MPs in Belgium (1995–2019)0
Young parliamentary assistants in Poland: How collaboration with MPs shapes political career aspirations0
Ministerial Advisers as Power Resources: Exploring Expansion, Stability and Contraction in Westminster Ministers’ Offices0
The Fix is in? Parliamentary Scrutiny of Appointments of the Heads of Brazilian Regulatory Agencies0
Purpose-Built Parliament Buildings and the Institutionalisation of Parliament in Lesotho and Malawi0
Issue congruence between candidates' Twitter communication and constituencies in an MMES: Migration as an exemplary case0
The executive trump card: government-initiated votes of confidence in parliamentary democracies0
The consequences of technocracy on electoral participation0
The Church of England: Sticking with the Tories through thick and thin0
Which MPs get elevated to the UK House of Lords?0
Introduction: A record-breaking election0
Hegemonic defeatism: The mainstreaming of far-right politics in France0
The asymmetric power model 20 years on0
Regional Parliaments and Democratic Crises: The Performance of ECOWAS and MERCOSUR Parliaments in the Democracy Protection Agenda0
Devolution and the Prevent Strategy in Scotland: Constitutional Politics and the Path of Scottish P/CVE0
Political Parties and Civility in Parliament: The Case of Australia from 1901 to 20200
Staying Power: A Leadership Trait and Survival Analysis of Modern Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom0
Comparing registration systems using the International Difficulty of Registration Index (IDORI). How difficult is electoral registration in the UK?0
What citizens think about minority governments in majority coalition settings0
Parliamentary Influence on Brexit Legislation, 2017–20190
Electoral context matters: why undecided voters in elections and referendums are different0
Voices heard and unheard: Analizing legislative amendment proposals on underprivileged groups in Spain0
‘Come, Armageddon, come’: The Conservatives0
Gender Gaps in Political Ambition on Different Levels of Policy-Making0
Correction to: The security of politicians: towards a research agenda0
The Voter ID Debate: An Analysis of Political Elite Framing in the UK Parliament0
Supporting the quality of deliberative democracy: The contribution of parliamentary library and research services0
Beyond Institutional Adaptation: Legislative Europeanisation and Parliamentary Attention to the EU in the Hungarian Parliament0
Breweries, bricklaying, and bungee jumping: Understanding the 2024 campaign trail0
Voices from the edge make breakthrough in British politics: The Greens, Reform UK, and independents0
The state of British policymaking: How can UK government become more effective?0
Weaponizing women and gender: Party appeals to women voters ahead of the 2024 UK general election0
ThePastof Parliamentary and Legislative Studies0
Parliamentary dimension of the Council presidency: Testing a research framework through the case of the 2016 Dutch rotating presidency of the EU0
Not so different: Comparing British MPs’ and voters’ attitudes to climate change0
Enhancing the Scrutiny Role of Select Committees: The House of Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee’s New Independent Expert Panel0
Presidential legislative initiatives under semi-presidentialism: What accounts for their success and failure?0
Riding the COVID-19 Wave? Issue Attention during the Pandemic0
Legitimacy of the Suspension of Standing Orders: The Case of the Dewan Rakyat (House of Representatives) of Malaysia0
Rural Decline and Spatial Voting Patterns0
Party Quotas and Gender Differences in Candidate Experience in Australia: 1987–20160
The British Political Tradition and Constitutional Policy: The Offer of Deliberative Mini Publics0
Pro-environmental voting: What it is, how to measure it, and its determinants among contemporary European voters0
Instability and inequality in the British state0
The challenge of devolved English governance and the rise of political spatial inequality0
Yellow fever returns: The 2024 Liberal Democrat campaign0
The security of politicians: towards a research agenda0
House of Commons Public Bill Committees and Oral Evidence: A Half-Step Forward?0
The Personality Divide Between Citizens and Politicians: The Case of the Four Largest Spanish Parties0
Legislators between the throne and the house: Traditional authority and the constituency focus of Ghanaian MPs0
Empowering the people: The evolution and impact of Portugal’s citizens’ legislative initiatives in a comparative perspective0
‘Such Cold, Dispassionate Terms Fail Us’: Reading Hansard as an ‘Archive of Feelings”0
Feminist Institutional Change: The Case of the UK Women and Equalities Committee0
The Future of Parliamentary and Legislative Studies0
Gendered Patterns of Committee Assignments—To What Extent Are Women in Parliamentary Party Groups Game Changers?0
Backing Badenoch: The Conservative Party Leadership Election of 20240
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