Questioning in European Parliaments

摘要: Although parliamentary questions (PQs) are a feature of most legislatures, no two legislatures share exactly identical questioning forms. This research provides an overview forms in European parliaments, covering variation the main institutional features, processing and impact political parties on questioning. Cross-national temporal behavioural trends is identified using more in-depth analysis patterns national parliaments United Kingdom, France Spain. The accountability game found to have general structure based principal–agent relationship fact that government must answer posed by MPs. PQs conceived as formal mechanisms combat information asymmetries moral hazard, especially when there hidden information, means them MPs can give orientation or indirizzo (direction) executive.