Practice Makes ‘Perfect?’ The Effect of Committee Specialization on the Complexity of Parliamentary Speeches

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14230/25:00140320
Result on the web
<a href="https://academic.oup.com/pa/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/pa/gsae027/7730206?redirectedFrom=fulltext" target="_blank" >https://academic.oup.com/pa/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/pa/gsae027/7730206?redirectedFrom=fulltext</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsae027" target="_blank" >10.1093/pa/gsae027</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Practice Makes ‘Perfect?’ The Effect of Committee Specialization on the Complexity of Parliamentary Speeches
Original language description
The complexity of parliamentary speeches is usually interpreted as an MP’s electoral strategy. We take the prism of political specialization, and connect it to the use of issue-specific jargon learned during parliamentary work. We expect that membership in a parliamentary committee and increased experience within it increases the complexity of an MP’s speech about committee-related issues, and that the effect of the work in the committee is stronger for MPs without previous a committee-related, professional background. We test our expectations on almost 54 thousand speeches in the Czech Chamber of Deputies (2006–2021), using the Flesch Reading Ease formula adapted for the Czech language. The novel dataset connects parliamentary speeches to personal information about the MPs and to responsible committees. The results show the expected effect of committee membership and committee experience, and the interaction effect of a professional background.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science

Project
<a href="/en/project/GJ20-12580Y" target="_blank" >GJ20-12580Y: Study of parliamentary speeches and their effects on outputs of MPs' work in the Czech Republic</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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