Partisan Disturbances and Time Dependence in the Evolution of Legislative Institutions

• In Event: Political Parties, Factions, and Change in Legislatures Across the Globe

Brief Overview

This paper argues that the effects of party system disturbances on legislative rules are time dependent. It tests this using a large new dataset of changes to the formal rules of the Irish Dáil between 1922 and 2020, and finds supportive evidence.

Authors

• Thomas Fleming, University of York

• Radoslaw Zubek, University of Oxford