Measuring Legislative Activity during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Introducing the ParlAct and ParlTech Indexes

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Abstract

This research note introduces two novel indexes designed to measure legislative activity (ParlAct) and use of digital devices to maintain legislative functions (ParlTech) during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. It will also present a novel comprehensive dataset on the functioning of legislatures during a critical period of the pandemic, providing scores for 152 domestic legislatures on both the ParlAct and ParlTech indexes. It will be argued that both indexes could also serve as templates for future research on legislative activity during other pandemics, crises and contingencies.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)109-126
Number of pages18
JournalInternational Journal of Parliamentary Studies
Volume1
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 International Journal of Parliamentary Studies. All rigts reserved.

Funding

We wish to thank the 172 experts who sent us reports about their countries, as well as the two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. We are grateful to our research assistants: Tair Ben Zeev, Itay Cohen, Ori Harari, Itamar Hashash-Daniel, Eyal Kanfi, Chani Kot, Yuval Maor, Evgeny Saburov, and Nina Stepanets. This research was supported by a research grant from the Israel National Institute for Health Policy Research (#2020/553).

FundersFunder number
Israel National Institute for Health Policy Research2020/553

    Keywords

    • Covid-19
    • comparison
    • crisis
    • index
    • legislatures

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