Parliamentary questions are a feature of almost all national
legislatures. Despite this, we know very little about how questions
are used by MPs and what impact questions have on controlling the
government. This volume advances our theoretical and empirical
knowledge of the use of questioning in a number of different
parliamentary settings. The propensity of parliamentarians to ask
questions indicates that the interrogatories are an important tool
for measuring an individual legislator's job. Ultimately, how a
parliamentarian chooses to use the questioning tool provides a
unique insight into legislator behaviour and role orientation. Many
of the chapters in this volume provide new empirical measures of
legislator activity and use this data to provide new tests of
leading theories of legislator behaviour. At an institutional
level, questions provide an important source of information for the
chamber and are a critical tool of government oversight - as many
of the chapters in the volume indicate. Evidence of the impact of
questions on executive and bureaucratic oversight challenges
conventional views of parliaments as weak and ineffective parts of
the political process. This book was published as a special issue
of the Journal of Legislative Studies.
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