Journal article
Procedural Change in the UK House of Commons, 1811-2015
- Abstract:
- Recent research has shown an increasing interest in the historical evolution of legislative institutions. The development of the UK Parliament has received particularly extensive attention. In this article, we contribute to this literature in three important ways. First, we introduce a complete, machine-readable data set of all the Standing Orders of the UK House of Commons between 1811 and 2015. Second, we demonstrate how this data set can be used to construct innovative measures of procedural change. Third, we illustrate a potential empirical application of the data set, offering an exploratory test of several expectations drawn from recent theories of formal rule change in parliamentary democracies. We conclude that the new data set has the potential to substantially advance our understanding of legislative reforms in the United Kingdom and beyond.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1111/lsq.12249
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- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Journal:
- Legislative Studies Quarterly More from this journal
- Volume:
- 45
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 35-67
- Publication date:
- 2019-07-11
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-05-06
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1939-9162
- Language:
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English
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pubs:998140
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pubs:998140
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998140
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- Copyright holder:
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Rights statement:
- © 2019 Washington University in St. Louis.
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Wiley at: https://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12249
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