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Committee strength in parliamentary democracies: A new index

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Much recent research on coalitions and policy-making in parliamentary democracies requires high quality data on the strength of legislative institutions. In this note, I introduce a new index of committee policing strength which improves on existing measures in important ways. I specify key index parameters using a binary rooted tree model and engage human coders to score formal rules. I obtain a novel time-series of committee policing strength in 17 western and eastern European democracies s...

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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1111/1475-6765.12426

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Institution:
University of Oxford
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SSD
Sub department:
Politics & Int Relations
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Publisher:
Wiley Publisher's website
Journal:
European Journal of Political Research Journal website
Publication date:
2020-12-01
Acceptance date:
2020-09-19
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1475-6765
ISSN:
0304-4130
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English
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1145539
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pubs:1145539
Deposit date:
2020-11-16

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