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The study of political institutions is among the founding pillars of political science. With the
rise of the'new institutionalism', the study of institutions has returned to its place in the sun …

Yelling across the floor of the House of Commons to ask a question of the prime minister
over the shouts of boos is far from effective in holding government to account, yet it remains …

Parliamentary party groups are central actors in most European democracies. This volume
analyses the manifestations and operations of these actors across thirteen different …

Reasons identified in relation to representatives' decisions to use parliamentary questions
range from challenging the government, raising citizen-oriented concerns, disseminating …

This study examines the extent to which politicians' visibility in traditional news coverage
explains individual politicians' visibility on social media, and vice versa. We also explore …

Examining the complexities and tensions in relations between party members and
parliamentarians through an in-depth analysis of the processes that shape the development …

A growing body of evidence shows that politicians use motivated reasoning to fit evidence
with prior beliefs. In this, they are not unlike other people. We use survey experiments to …

This title was first published in 2001: Under the name of the" polder model", the Dutch model
of democracy has received favourable attention from journalists, administrators and political …

It has frequently been argued that proportional representation leads to national politics with
little or no regional representation. We examine this in the case of the two most extreme …