The State of the Sub-discipline: Mapping Parliamentary and Legislative Studies Using a Survey and Bibliometric Analysis of Three of Its Journals

• Caroline Bhattacharya ^[1] ; Gavin Hart ^[2] ; Sean Haughey ^[3] ; Stephen Holden Bates ^[4] ; Alexandra Meakin ^[5]
  1. [1] University of Helsinki
  2. [2] Liverpool Hope University
  3. [3] University of Liverpool
  4. [4] University of Birmingham
  5. [5] University of Leeds

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• Localización: Parliamentary affairs: A journal of representative politics, ISSN 0031-2290, Vol. 75, Nº 4, 2022, págs. 699-726
• Idioma: inglés
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  • We map the current state of parliamentary and legislative studies through a survey of 218 scholars and a bibliometric analysis of 25 years of publications in three prominent sub-field journals. We identify two groupings of researchers, a quantitative methods, rational choice-favouring grouping and a qualitative methods, interpretivism-favouring grouping with a UK focus. Upon closer examination, these groupings share similar views about the challenges and future of the sub-discipline. While the sub-discipline is becoming more diverse and international, US-focused literature remains dominant and distinct from UK-focused literature, although there are emerging sub-literatures which are well placed to link them together.