TY  - GEN
A1  - Wegmann, Simone
T1  - Policy-making power of opposition players
BT  - a comparative institutional perspective
T2  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - The organisation of legislative chambers and the consequences of parliamentary procedures have been among the most prominent research questions in legislative studies. Even though democratic elections not only lead to the formation of a government but also result in an opposition, the literature has mostly neglected oppositions and their role in legislative chambers. This paper proposes to fill this gap by looking at the legislative organisation from the perspective of opposition players. The paper focuses on the potential influence of opposition players in the policy-making process and presents data on more than 50 legislative chambers. The paper shows considerable variance of the formal power granted to opposition players. Furthermore, the degree of institutionalisation of opposition rights is connected to electoral systems and not necessarily correlated with other institutional characteristics such as regime type or the size of legislative chambers.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 187 
KW  - Legislative organisation
KW  - parliamentary opposition
KW  - power
KW  - policy-making
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-566516
SN  - 1867-5808
IS  - 1
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wegmann, Simone
T1  - Policy-making power of opposition players
BT  - a comparative institutional perspective
JF  - The Journal of Legislative Studies
N2  - The organisation of legislative chambers and the consequences of parliamentary procedures have been among the most prominent research questions in legislative studies. Even though democratic elections not only lead to the formation of a government but also result in an opposition, the literature has mostly neglected oppositions and their role in legislative chambers. This paper proposes to fill this gap by looking at the legislative organisation from the perspective of opposition players. The paper focuses on the potential influence of opposition players in the policy-making process and presents data on more than 50 legislative chambers. The paper shows considerable variance of the formal power granted to opposition players. Furthermore, the degree of institutionalisation of opposition rights is connected to electoral systems and not necessarily correlated with other institutional characteristics such as regime type or the size of legislative chambers.
KW  - Legislative organisation
KW  - parliamentary opposition
KW  - power
KW  - policy-making
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2020.1843233
SN  - 1357-2334
SN  - 1743-9337
VL  - 28
IS  - 1
SP  - 1
EP  - 25
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -