Content matters: The dynamics of parliamentary questioning in Belgium and Denmark

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1031-1059

  Vliegenthart, Rens ^a   Walgrave, Stefaan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

agenda setting; Belgium; Denmark; parliamentary control; Question Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960617735     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414011405168     Document Type: Article

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