2nd International Conference on Parliamentary Accountability

 

Parliamentary Questions

 

Paris, March 12-14 2009

The 2nd ECPR International Conference on Parliamentary Accountability was held at Science Po Paris over three days in mid-March 2009. Organized by Olivier Rozenberg and Shane Martin, the conference focused on the topic of parliamentary questions. Papers from the conference are available below (or in some cases by contacting the paper-giver directly). Papers are currently being revised with the aim of producing a publication on the usefulness of parliamentary questions as an empirical tool to study parliamentary behaviour.


Thursday 12 March

Palais du Luxembourg (room 213)
15 ter, rue de Vaugirard, 75006 Paris
métro : Odéon, Mabillon, Saint-Sulpice / RER : Luxembourg, Sénat

9 a.m. – 10 a.m.
Roundtable: the state of legislative studies around the world
In presence of Alain Delcamp, Secrétaire général du Sénat and Eric Thiers, directeur de cabinet du Secrétaire d’Etat chargé des Relations avec le Parlement

10.30 a.m. – 11.30 a.m.
Matti Wiberg (University of Turku)
“Parliamentary Questioning in Europe”
Discussant: Bailer

11.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
Manuel Sanchez De Dios (Universidad Complutense)
Patterns of parliamentary questioning in Europe. The cases of UK, France and Spain
Discussant: Navarro

2 p.m – 3 p.m.
Julien Navarro (Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux)
Why ask questions? The logic of written questions in the European Parliament
Discussant: Wiberg


3 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Thomas Saalfeld (University of Kent)
"'Measuring' Representation: The Use of Parliamentary Questions by Black and Minority Ethnic Backbench MPs in the United Kingdom"
Discussant: Russo

4 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Dennis P. Petri (Sciences Po), Jean-Paul Vargas (University of Costa Rica)
Parliamentary questions: comparative analysis of the Municipal Affairs Committees in Central America and the Dominican Republic”
Discussant: Brouard


Friday 13 March

Cevipof
98 rue de l’Université
75007 Paris
métro : Solférino / Assemblée nationale

9 a.m. – 10 a.m. (to be confirmed)
Rob Salmond (University of Michigan)
Bureaucrats Work More in the Dark: Question Times and Delegation to the Bureaucracy
Discussant: Dandoy

10 a.m. – 11 a.m.
Régis Dandoy (University of Brussels ULB), Caroline Van Wynsberghe (University of Louvain UCL)
“Parliamentary questions in a complex institutional environment: the case of the Belgian federal parliament”
Discussant: Kerby

11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Stefanie Bailer (University of ZurichSeilergraben)
Credit Claiming or Position Taking – On the Reasons for Parliamentary Questions in the Swiss National Parliament
Discussant: Martin

12 a.m. – 1 a.m.
Federico Russo (University of Siena)
Parlaimentary Questions in Italy
Discussant: Clément Viktorovitch, Sciences Po Paris

2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Sylvain Brouard (SPIRIT, Sciences Po Bordeaux)
The dynamics of Parliamentary questions in French National Assembly: Institutional design, political context and issue attention
Discussant: Rasch

3. p.m. – 4 p.m.
Bjorn Erik Rasch (University of Oslo)
"Why members of governing parties ask questions"
Discussant: Petri


4. p.m. – 5 p.m.
Olivier Rozenberg (CEVIPOF), Olivier Chopin (EHESS), Catherine Hoeffler (CEVIPOF), Bastien Irondelle (CERI), Jean Joana (Sciences Po Toulouse)
Questioning about defence policies in Spain, Germany, France and the United Kingdom
Discussant: Sanchez


Saturday 14 March

(Cevipof)

9.30 a.m. – 10.30 a.m.
Shane Martin (Dublin City University)
“PQs, role orientation and the electoral reward”
Discussant: Saalfeld

10.30 a.m. – 11.30 a.m.
Matthew Kerby (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
“Resignation calls in the Canadian Federal Parliament: 1980-2007”
Discussant: Rozenberg

11.30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Discussion and future projects

Convenors:

Shane Martin                                           Olivier Rozenberg
School of Law & Government                CEVIPOF
Dublin City University                            Sciences Po, Paris
shane.martin@dcu.ie                               olivier.rozenberg@sciences-po.fr



For registration:
Olivier Rozenberg
olivier.rozenberg@sciences-po.fr
phone: 01.45.49.77.30