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These questions and more will be examined by workshop participants. Participants include researchers mainly from the United States and Europe who will present studies on a range of related topics including: the internal organization of parliament, parliamentarism and coalition management, the coalition's ability to shape the legislative agenda and much more.
Organizers:
Yael Shomer, Tel Aviv University
Bjørn Høyland, University of Oslo
Preliminary workshop program (pdf).
Papers
Osnat Akirav (Western Galilee College), "Come On, Let’s Tweet Again Like We Did Last Summer:The Use of Twitter by Representatives"
Stefanie Bailer (University of Basel) and Clint Claessen (ETH Zürich) "What happens after? An analysis of post-parliamentary private sector career positions in Germany and the Netherlands"
Cristina Bucur (University of Oslo) and Jose Antonio Cheibub (University of Illinois), "Presidents and the Choice of Prime Ministers in Parliamentary Democracies"
Cristina Bucur (University of Oslo) and Bjørn Erik Rasch (University of Oslo), Portfolio Allocation in Coalitions
Reuven Hazan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), "Legislative Coalition Breaking: The Constructive Vote of No-Confidence"
Simon Hug (Université de Genève) and Fang-Yi Chiou (IPSAS, Academia Sinica), "Strategic roll call vote requests"
Shane Martin (University of Leicester), "Bargaining in Legislatures, Portfolio Allocation and the Electoral Costs of Governing"
Kaare Strøm (University of California, San Diego & University of Oslo) and Charles McClean (University of California, San Diego), "Minority Governments and Coalition Management"
Yael Shomer, Tel-Aviv University
Bjørn Høyland (University of Oslo) and Martin Søyland (University of Oslo), "Electoral Reform and Parliamentary Debates"
Carlos Pereira (Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas), Samuel Pessoa, Frederico Bertholini and Helloana Medeiros, "Too difficult to manage, too big to ignore: Party choice in multiparty presidential systems"
Jean-François Godbout (Université de Montréal) and Martial Foucault (Sciences Po, Paris), "Restrictive Legislative Procedures and Coalition Support in France"
Ulrich Sieberer (University of Konstanz) and Daniel Höhmann (University of Konstanz), "Shadowing with glass figures? A comparative analysis of committee chair powers in Western European democracies"
Martin Søyland (University of Oslo), "Survival of the ministers: On ministerial durability in post-war Norway"
Daniella Gianetti, University of Bologna
Lanny Martin (Rice University) and Georg Vanberg (Duke University), "Government Responsiveness, Legislative Institutions, and Unemployment Policy in Parliamentary Democracies"
Orit Kedar, Liran Harsgor, and Or Tuttnauer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), "Party-System Fragmentation: A New Look at an Old Question"
Csaba Nikolenyi (Concordia University), "Strong Governments Make Strong Committees? Committee Composition and Decision-‐Making in the Hungarian Parliament"
Paper proposals, including a brief abstract, should be sent to the organizers. The deadline for proposals is 15 March 2015. New participants are added to the list above as soon as their paper proposal is accepted. There are no registration fees. Lunches and a workshop dinner will be provided. Also an excursion to Jerusalem is being planned. Unless otherwise agreed, participants will have to cover their own travel costs and accommodation.
All papers will be uploaded to this website. Participants are required to send their papers to the organizers and/or Cristina Bucur no later than Wednesday, 4 November, 2015.
The workshop is part of the project The Evolution of Parliamentarism and Its Political Consequences, funded by The Norwegian Research Council. Contact: Professor Bjørn Erik Rasch, University of Oslo.