Replication Data for: Under Pressure: Institutional frictions and issue characteristics as determinants of issue responsiveness in Parliament in times of crisis (doi:10.7910/DVN/HAM7MJ)

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Document Description

Citation

Title:

Replication Data for: Under Pressure: Institutional frictions and issue characteristics as determinants of issue responsiveness in Parliament in times of crisis

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/HAM7MJ

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2025-03-02

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1

Bibliographic Citation:

Cavalieri, Alice; Kushi, Alda; Russo, Federico, 2025, "Replication Data for: Under Pressure: Institutional frictions and issue characteristics as determinants of issue responsiveness in Parliament in times of crisis", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HAM7MJ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:BPM1KoWoRsHjUCXuFFS71w== [fileUNF]

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Replication Data for: Under Pressure: Institutional frictions and issue characteristics as determinants of issue responsiveness in Parliament in times of crisis

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/HAM7MJ

Authoring Entity:

Cavalieri, Alice (Università di Trieste)

Kushi, Alda (Università del Salento)

Russo, Federico (Università del Salento)

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Access Authority:

Cavalieri, Alice

Depositor:

Cavalieri, Alice

Date of Deposit:

2025-03-02

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HAM7MJ

Study Scope

Keywords:

Social Sciences, Crisis, Agenda-setting, Media attention, Public Opinion

Abstract:

Parliaments are the intermediate link in the representative chain connecting citizens to the government. The parliamentary agenda is often seen as highly responsive because public priorities are usually mirrored in parliamentary debates. However, the level of responsiveness is affected by formal and informal rules of each activity, which considerably shape the attention-concentration capacity and thus the possibility for policy change. During moments of crisis, institutional frictions can be substantially placated, making the agenda concentrating on the crisis issue even in the presence of high institutional frictions. Building on the literature about parliamentary questioning and agenda-setting studies, this article compares the determinants of issue attention for crisis-related issues (economic, migration, and pandemic) in the Italian case over the past twenty years, assessing their impact on written questions and oral questions with immediate response. This article overcomes a limitation of the agenda-setting literature which treats different forms of parliamentary questions as having a single logic and dynamic. Instead, we demonstrate that frictions are extremely variable among different forms of parliamentary questioning and thus, that written and oral questions exhibit different forms of issue responsiveness. This article explores which type of signal parliamentary questions are most responsive to - public concerns, media attention, or real-world indicators – and finds that the answer is highly conditional both on the specific issue under examination and the type of parliamentary questions.

Methodology and Processing

Sources Statement

Data Access

Other Study Description Materials

File Description--f10927914

File: QuestionTime.tab

  • Number of cases: 1113

  • No. of variables per record: 4

  • Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

Notes:

UNF:6:lceBn46PNGDDTEB4oIPQog==

File Description--f10927915

File: WrittenQuestions.tab

  • Number of cases: 1113

  • No. of variables per record: 4

  • Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

Notes:

UNF:6:NBxtDCVFHLBcRIyH3BOGmA==

Variable Description

List of Variables:

Variables

cap_macro

f10927914 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 1.0; Valid 1113.0; Mean 11.571428571428571; Max. 23.0; StDev 6.575418266955038

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:OXZiVOiqwqh/RcgnqRL5Vg==

semester

f10927914 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 2022.2; Valid 1113.0; Min. 1996.2; Mean 2009.3962264150944; StDev 7.654582263725646;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:w+30oHVVtPN84WEuiKcC+A==

nQT.categ

f10927914 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 1113.0; Min. 0.0; StDev 6.439152953908677; Max. 49.0; Mean 6.272237196765495;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:jKmZE2OS5wOp4nMj7Amn+g==

TOTsemester

f10927914 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 1113.0; Mean 131.71698113207572; Min. 21.0; StDev 53.19872348850403; Max. 263.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:mRHsFP7kquww6maomIla0A==

cap_macro

f10927915 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 1113.0; StDev 6.575418266955033; Max. 23.0; Mean 11.57142857142858; Min. 1.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:JYR2OLgEAUitustU0izNMg==

semester

f10927915 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 1996.2; Mean 2009.3962264150944; Max. 2022.2; StDev 7.654582263725651; Valid 1113.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:R4+kjVJciV2pY3QOJvGXYA==

nWRITTEN.categ

f10927915 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 2102.0; StDev 137.84172603882433; Valid 1113.0; Min. 0.0; Mean 99.54806828391644

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:4oN7/DtbI0S6/BksLilEgQ==

TOTsemester

f10927915 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 1113.0; StDev 919.7100302291402; Max. 4958.0; Min. 293.0; Mean 2090.5094339622674

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:mUZ0mTzB6bt/EzO9BcFfNQ==

Other Study-Related Materials

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DataRegression.csv

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text/csv

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EurobarometerMII.csv

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text/csv

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Instructions and codebook for replication.pdf

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Instructions and details about the codebook, dataset, and analysis for replication

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application/pdf

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ReplicationDescriptiveAnalysis.R

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type/x-r-syntax

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ReplicationRegression.R

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type/x-r-syntax

Other Study-Related Materials

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ScopusItalyCrisis_2005_2022.csv

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text/csv