Political opposition has long been one of the most dramatically understudied elements of
real-world politics in contemporary democratic and authoritarian regimes. The past decade …

Moving beyond the dominant bag-of-words approach to sentiment analysis we introduce an
alternative procedure based on distributed word embeddings. The strength of word …

The Westminster parliament is a highly visible political institution, and one of its core
functions is approving new laws. Yet Britain's legislative process is often seen as executive …

Does political integration challenge democracy by undermining the impact of national
parliaments and parliamentary elections on policy making? This question has given rise to …

ABSTRACT A political system cannot be imagined without opposition. Despite this crucial
position in politics, political science has largely neglected to study oppositions. Attempting to …

Parliamentary elections often result in the formation of a coalition government. While the
legislative process allows actors within a coalition government to monitor each other, little …

The existence and activity of Political Opposition is indispensable in democratic systems of
government. This chapter argues that the vital democratic functions of opposition (informing …

At the level of regime typologies, the uncertain status and inherent weakness of the
opposition mark defining features of regimes beyond liberal democracy. However, even the …

There are many types and forms of opposition in modern societies and the day-to-day usage
of the word encompasses a wide “variety of developments”(Blondel, 1997, p. 462). 1 …

The organisation of legislative chambers and the consequences of parliamentary
procedures have been among the most prominent research questions in legislative studies …