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The Roles and Function of Parliamentary
Questions

Parliamentary questions are a feature of almost all national legislatures. Despite this, we know very little about how questions are used by MPs and what impact questions have on controlling the government. This volume advances our theoretical and empirical knowledge of the use of questioning in a number of different parliamentary settings. The propensity of parliamentarians to ask questions indicates that the interrogatories are an important tool for measuring an individual legislators job. Ultimately, how a parliamentarian chooses to use the questioning tool provides a unique insight into legislator behaviour and role orientation. Many of the chapters in this volume provide new empirical measures of legislator activity and use this data to provide new tests of leading theories of legislator behaviour.

At an institutional level, questions provide an important source of information for the chamber and are a critical tool of government oversight as many of the chapters in the volume indicate. Evidence of the impact of questions on executive and bureaucratic oversight challenges conventional views of parliaments as weak and ineffective parts of the political process.

This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies.

Shane Martin is Director of the Centre for International Studies at Dublin City University where he also lectures in comparative politics. His research focuses on the political economy of legislative organization and in particular on how electoral incentives shape representatives preferences, the internal structures of parliaments, executive oversight and the production of public policy. He is founding Co-Convenor of the ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments and was founding Co-Director of the European Summer School on Parliaments.

Olivier Rozenberg is Associate Research Professor at Sciences Po, in Paris. He is a member of the Centre for European Studies. His research focuses on the study of political institutions and particularly of legislatures in Europe (national parliaments and the European Parliament). Within this framework, he studies both the sociology of legislators and the policy analysis of parliamentary activities.

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The Roles and Function of
Parliamentary Questions

Edited by
Shane Martin and Olivier Rozenberg

First published 2012
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ISBN13: 978-0-415-66980-1

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Publishers Note
The publisher would like to make readers aware that the chapters in this book are referred to as articles as they had been in the special issue. The publisher accepts responsibility for any inconsistencies that may have arisen in the course of preparing this volume for print.

Contents

Parliamentary Questions, the Behaviour of Legislators, and the Function of Legislatures: An Introduction
Shane Martin

Parliamentary Questions as Instruments of Substantive Representation: Visible Minorities in the UK House of Commons, 200510

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