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Politicians across Western democracies are increasingly adopting and experimenting with Twitter, particularly during election time. The purpose of this article is to investigate how candidates are using it during an election campaign. The... more
Twitter has become one of the most important online spaces for political communication practice and research. Through a hand-coded content analysis, this study compares how British and Dutch Parliamentary candidates used Twitter during... more
This article introduces the special issue on constituency representation in France, Belgium and Germany. First, it proposes a brief state of the art to show that the literature on European parliamentary systems concentrates on the... more
Retired military officers often continue to wield significant influence in regimes built after the end of junta rule, sometimes helping to bridge enduring civil-military divides. Myanmar's recent legislative elections offers a... more
In this chapter, we present a typology of the tweeting behaviour of candidates as a means of analysing the extent to which politicians are harnessing the potential of social media to actively interact with their constituents. Our... more
This article deals with similarities and differences in the orientations of East and West German MPs more than a decade after the unification of the country. Based on data from the Jena Parliamentary Survey, thus far the largest survey... more
L’auteure s’appuie sur un panel exhaustif de blogues politiques français (3 509 sites). Une qualification fine des caractéristiques sociodémographiques des blogueurs, de la politisation de chaque blogueur et d’un ensemble de données... more
Analysis of Kenyan politics that focusses on change and continuity in the structure of the state and in patronage politics, focussing on political corruption, the nature of harambee, and the introduction of the Constituency Development... more
Purpose – Argues that the British House of Commons is acutely unrepresentative of the population that it serves. A range of party leadership interventions that have sought to increase the possibilities for women and those from minority... more
Quelle relation lie un élu à son parti ? Cette thèse analyse le phénomène de dépendance au parti des députés en comparant le PS et l’UMP durant la XIIIe et la XIVe législature. La relation de dépendance au parti influence, avec une... more
Spanish Parliamentary Law has progressively recognized the category of «unaffiliated MPs». However, its constitutionality poses many different problems as both the constitutional concept of political representation and the fundamental... more
L’article étudie la réduction du nombre de parlementaires en France, au Portugal et au Royaume-Uni. Il vise à en comprendre le sens grâce à une approche discursive et argumentative comparée, réalisée à partir de l’étude d’un large corpus... more
Kje iskati vzroke za tako hude zaplete pri iskanju mandatarja z zadostno podporo v parlamentu kot tudi pri sestavi bodoče vladne koalicije? Eden ključnih razlogov je neposrečeni volilni sistem. Ste vedeli, da je bilo na letošnjih... more
Cette note propose une évaluation ex-ante de la réduction d’un tiers du nombre de députés en France, annoncée officiellement en juillet 2017 par Emmanuel Macron. Après avoir discuté les différents arguments plutôt infondés soutenant cette... more
This paper examines the core elements and the problems posed by the doctrine contained in the STC 141/2007, within the framework of the constitutional case-law on the MPs' status. The article specially focuses on the meaning and nature of... more
Keine Dauerreden mehr: Die Demokraten haben im US-Senat die Filibuster-Regel gelockert. Doch wie schaffte es die Lizenz zum Labern überhaupt in die Verfassung?