Anna M Palau
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4169795 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Anna M Palau |
| NOMBRES | Anna M |
| APELLIDO | Palau |
| FIRMA | PALAU A M |
| AFILIACIONES | Universitat de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3473-1114 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 326 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Do the regional and European content of legislation shape party behaviour in national parliaments? An analysis of the Spanish case
Using the Spanish case, this paper explores whether the European and regional content of legislation debated in national parliaments influences parties’ legislative behaviour, and more specifically their decision to propose legislative amendments. Based on regression analysis and multilevel modelling for hypothesis testing and an original dataset including information on more than 90,000 amendments, results illustrate that parties are more likely…
Voices heard and unheard
This paper explores the circumstances under which parliamentary groups reference underprivileged groups—specifically, women, immigrants and people with disabilities –in their legislative amendment proposals. Drawing on a comprehensive dataset covering all executive bills passed in Spain between 1996 and 2023, we find that the presence of interest groups in parliamentary hearings significantly increases the visibility of the underprivileged in the…
The Effect of Ideological Distance on Voting Behaviour in Parliament Under Changing Economic Conditions
In this article we empirically test the impact of ideological distancebetween opposition parties and incumbents on consensus inparliament in two different countries, Portugal and Spain, amidchanging economic conditions. To do so, we employ theComparative Manifesto Project database and develop a measureof ideological distance on the left-right and the centre-peripherydimensions based on parties’preferences as expressed in theirmanifestos. We demon…
El impacto de la cobertura mediática de la corrupción en la opinión pública española
Este artículo analiza la cobertura mediática de los escándalos de corrupciónen España entre 1996 y 2009. El objetivo es, en primer lugar, determinarhasta qué punto los dos periódicos más leídos en España --El País y ElMundo- cubren los escándalos de corrupción siguiendo orientacionespolíticas distintas. Los resultados ponen de manifi esto una coberturamediática partidista -se identifi can diferencias importantes entre ambosperiódicos en la cobert…
To amend or not to amend
Based on a new comprehensive dataset containing information on 93,722 amendments, this article explores the circumstances under which Spanish legislators propose amendments to executive bills. Our results show that legislators respond to variations in both governmental factors and bargaining dynamics. In single-party minority governments, ad hoc legislature agreements translate into more amendments. However, legislators do not introduce significa…
The Role of the News Media in Fighting Corruption Practices
This article first outlines the conditions in which the media could contribute to creating and maintaining an atmosphere that discourages corruption practices. Second, based on the content analysis of 4361 online news articles, it demonstrates that these conditions are not present in the media coverage of corruption in Spain. The Spanish media do not promote a substantive frame, i.e., a meaningful discussion on the causes, consequences and remedi…
Can Opposition Parties Be Responsible
Opposition responsibility is a neglected field, and if at all noticed, opposition parties are often placed in the irresponsibility frame. The purpose of our paper is to examine to what extent, under which conditions, and in which ways opposition parties can be considered to act responsibly. This article will develop the concept of opposition responsibility and test the expectations in the behaviour of opposition parties in three countries: Hungar…
The comparative agendas project in Latin America
This paper introduces the Comparative Agendas Project system of coding as well as a wealth of gathered and in process data from Latin America using this established and reliable system for capturing policy attention comparatively and over time. While this is not the first introduction of the coding system, it is the first introduction aimed at Latin America and a new type of political system beyond North American and European democracies. First, …
O Comparative Agendas Project na América Latina
This paper introduces the Comparative Agendas Project system of coding as well as a wealth of gathered and in process data from Latin America using this established and reliable system for capturing policy attention comparatively and over time. While this is not the first introduction of the coding system, it is the first introduction aimed at Latin America and a new type of political system beyond North American and European democracies. First, …
Political actors’ access to the media agenda
This article explores to what extent the euro crisis brought about unprecedented attention to the European Union (EU) and if so with what consequences on the media visibility of different political actors in Spain. Drawing on a database of more than 27,000 stories published in the most read Spanish newspaper from 2004 to 2012, we demonstrate that following the outbreak of the crisis, executive elites receive more media coverage than social moveme…
Attention to EU Affairs in the Spanish Parliament
Recent research demonstrates that the salience of EU affairs in domestic parliaments is mainly driven by government parties. This has been interpreted as illustrating the so-called opposition deficit thesis and mainly explained considering governments’ informational advantages and reporting duties. Drawing on a dataset on oral questions introduced in plenary meetings in the Spanish parliament, this article sheds new light on government and opposi…
A matter of conflict
This article argues that external factors of EU coverage in the media need to be reassessed against domestic factors, in particular how parties modulate media attention to EU affairs. We explain which parties may set the EU on the media agenda, and how parties interact with events depending on the level of conflict over EU issues. Drawing on the first long-term analysis of partisan agenda-setting of EU affairs in the media – based on ARIMA time-s…
Do the media set the parliamentary agenda? A comparative study in seven countries
A growing body of work has examined the relationship between media and politics from an agenda‐setting perspective: Is attention for issues initiated by political elites with the media following suit, or is the reverse relation stronger? A long series of single‐country studies has suggested a number of general agenda‐setting patterns but these have never been confirmed in a comparative approach. In a comparative, longitudinal design including com…
Government–Opposition Dynamics in Spain under the Pressure of Economic Collapse and the Debt Crisis
Government - opposition relations in Spain have been long characterised by a high level of consensus and cooperation. The question analysed here is whether the economic crisis initiated in 2008 has created unprecedented levels of conflict in the political system or whether opposition parties have maintained a cooperative strategy oriented to influence far-reaching policy decisions. Results illustrate that patterns of consensus have decreased sign…
Assessing the Responsiveness of Spanish Policymakers to the Priorities of their Citizens
This article analyses how well Spanish political elites have responded to the issues signalled as priorities preferred by Spanish citizens from the early 1990s to the present, and to what extent the degree of correspondence between citizens" and policymakers" priorities is related to elections, type of government, issue jurisdiction and institutional friction. To measure this the authors rely on Most Important Problem surveys and several database…
Effects of the Core Functions of Government on the Diversity of Executive Agendas
The distribution of attention across issues is of fundamental importance to the political agenda and outputs of government. This article presents an issue-based theory of the diversity of governing agendas where the core functions of government—defense, international affairs, the economy, government operations, and the rule of law—are prioritized ahead of all other issues. It undertakes comparative analysis of issue diversity of the executive age…
Comparing Government Agendas
At the beginning of each parliamentary session, almost all European governments give a speech in which they present the government’s policy priorities and legislative agenda for the year ahead. Despite the body of literature on governments in European parliamentary democracies, systematic research on these executive policy agendas is surprisingly limited. In this article the authors study the executive policy agendas—measured through the policy c…
Comparing the Dynamics of Change in Food Safety and Pharmaceutical Policy in Spain
Comparative analysis shows that while policy windows and policy entrepreneurs are important, they are insufficient to account for policy change. An understanding of the institutional setting is key to explaining the speed and the magnitude of policy dynamics. In both food safety and pharmaceutical policy in Spain, a redefinition of policy image has involved a transformation of the policy subsystem. In the case of food safety such a paradigm shift…
Effects of the Core Functions of Government on the Diversity of Executive Agendas
The distribution of attention across issues is of fundamental importance to the political agenda and outputs of government. This article presents an issue-based theory of the diversity of governing agendas where the core functions of government—defense, international affairs, the economy, government operations, and the rule of law—are prioritized ahead of all other issues. It undertakes comparative analysis of issue diversity of the executive age…
Do the media set the parliamentary agenda? A comparative study in seven countries
A growing body of work has examined the relationship between media and politics from an agenda‐setting perspective: Is attention for issues initiated by political elites with the media following suit, or is the reverse relation stronger? A long series of single‐country studies has suggested a number of general agenda‐setting patterns but these have never been confirmed in a comparative approach. In a comparative, longitudinal design including com…
Comparing Government Agendas
At the beginning of each parliamentary session, almost all European governments give a speech in which they present the government’s policy priorities and legislative agenda for the year ahead. Despite the body of literature on governments in European parliamentary democracies, systematic research on these executive policy agendas is surprisingly limited. In this article the authors study the executive policy agendas—measured through the policy c…
Assessing the Responsiveness of Spanish Policymakers to the Priorities of their Citizens
This article analyses how well Spanish political elites have responded to the issues signalled as priorities preferred by Spanish citizens from the early 1990s to the present, and to what extent the degree of correspondence between citizens" and policymakers" priorities is related to elections, type of government, issue jurisdiction and institutional friction. To measure this the authors rely on Most Important Problem surveys and several database…
Government–Opposition Dynamics in Spain under the Pressure of Economic Collapse and the Debt Crisis
Government - opposition relations in Spain have been long characterised by a high level of consensus and cooperation. The question analysed here is whether the economic crisis initiated in 2008 has created unprecedented levels of conflict in the political system or whether opposition parties have maintained a cooperative strategy oriented to influence far-reaching policy decisions. Results illustrate that patterns of consensus have decreased sign…
Comparing the Dynamics of Change in Food Safety and Pharmaceutical Policy in Spain
Comparative analysis shows that while policy windows and policy entrepreneurs are important, they are insufficient to account for policy change. An understanding of the institutional setting is key to explaining the speed and the magnitude of policy dynamics. In both food safety and pharmaceutical policy in Spain, a redefinition of policy image has involved a transformation of the policy subsystem. In the case of food safety such a paradigm shift…
To amend or not to amend
Based on a new comprehensive dataset containing information on 93,722 amendments, this article explores the circumstances under which Spanish legislators propose amendments to executive bills. Our results show that legislators respond to variations in both governmental factors and bargaining dynamics. In single-party minority governments, ad hoc legislature agreements translate into more amendments. However, legislators do not introduce significa…
Can Opposition Parties Be Responsible
Opposition responsibility is a neglected field, and if at all noticed, opposition parties are often placed in the irresponsibility frame. The purpose of our paper is to examine to what extent, under which conditions, and in which ways opposition parties can be considered to act responsibly. This article will develop the concept of opposition responsibility and test the expectations in the behaviour of opposition parties in three countries: Hungar…
A matter of conflict
This article argues that external factors of EU coverage in the media need to be reassessed against domestic factors, in particular how parties modulate media attention to EU affairs. We explain which parties may set the EU on the media agenda, and how parties interact with events depending on the level of conflict over EU issues. Drawing on the first long-term analysis of partisan agenda-setting of EU affairs in the media – based on ARIMA time-s…
The Effect of Ideological Distance on Voting Behaviour in Parliament Under Changing Economic Conditions
In this article we empirically test the impact of ideological distancebetween opposition parties and incumbents on consensus inparliament in two different countries, Portugal and Spain, amidchanging economic conditions. To do so, we employ theComparative Manifesto Project database and develop a measureof ideological distance on the left-right and the centre-peripherydimensions based on parties’preferences as expressed in theirmanifestos. We demon…
El impacto de la cobertura mediática de la corrupción en la opinión pública española
Este artículo analiza la cobertura mediática de los escándalos de corrupciónen España entre 1996 y 2009. El objetivo es, en primer lugar, determinarhasta qué punto los dos periódicos más leídos en España --El País y ElMundo- cubren los escándalos de corrupción siguiendo orientacionespolíticas distintas. Los resultados ponen de manifi esto una coberturamediática partidista -se identifi can diferencias importantes entre ambosperiódicos en la cobert…
The Role of the News Media in Fighting Corruption Practices
This article first outlines the conditions in which the media could contribute to creating and maintaining an atmosphere that discourages corruption practices. Second, based on the content analysis of 4361 online news articles, it demonstrates that these conditions are not present in the media coverage of corruption in Spain. The Spanish media do not promote a substantive frame, i.e., a meaningful discussion on the causes, consequences and remedi…
Attention to EU Affairs in the Spanish Parliament
Recent research demonstrates that the salience of EU affairs in domestic parliaments is mainly driven by government parties. This has been interpreted as illustrating the so-called opposition deficit thesis and mainly explained considering governments’ informational advantages and reporting duties. Drawing on a dataset on oral questions introduced in plenary meetings in the Spanish parliament, this article sheds new light on government and opposi…
Comparing the Dynamics of Change in Food Safety and Pharmaceutical Policy in Spain
Comparative analysis shows that while policy windows and policy entrepreneurs are important, they are insufficient to account for policy change. An understanding of the institutional setting is key to explaining the speed and the magnitude of policy dynamics. In both food safety and pharmaceutical policy in Spain, a redefinition of policy image has involved a transformation of the policy subsystem. In the case of food safety such a paradigm shift…
Assessing the Responsiveness of Spanish Policymakers to the Priorities of their Citizens
This article analyses how well Spanish political elites have responded to the issues signalled as priorities preferred by Spanish citizens from the early 1990s to the present, and to what extent the degree of correspondence between citizens" and policymakers" priorities is related to elections, type of government, issue jurisdiction and institutional friction. To measure this the authors rely on Most Important Problem surveys and several database…
Effects of the Core Functions of Government on the Diversity of Executive Agendas
The distribution of attention across issues is of fundamental importance to the political agenda and outputs of government. This article presents an issue-based theory of the diversity of governing agendas where the core functions of government—defense, international affairs, the economy, government operations, and the rule of law—are prioritized ahead of all other issues. It undertakes comparative analysis of issue diversity of the executive age…
Comparing Government Agendas
At the beginning of each parliamentary session, almost all European governments give a speech in which they present the government’s policy priorities and legislative agenda for the year ahead. Despite the body of literature on governments in European parliamentary democracies, systematic research on these executive policy agendas is surprisingly limited. In this article the authors study the executive policy agendas—measured through the policy c…
Government–Opposition Dynamics in Spain under the Pressure of Economic Collapse and the Debt Crisis
Government - opposition relations in Spain have been long characterised by a high level of consensus and cooperation. The question analysed here is whether the economic crisis initiated in 2008 has created unprecedented levels of conflict in the political system or whether opposition parties have maintained a cooperative strategy oriented to influence far-reaching policy decisions. Results illustrate that patterns of consensus have decreased sign…
A matter of conflict
This article argues that external factors of EU coverage in the media need to be reassessed against domestic factors, in particular how parties modulate media attention to EU affairs. We explain which parties may set the EU on the media agenda, and how parties interact with events depending on the level of conflict over EU issues. Drawing on the first long-term analysis of partisan agenda-setting of EU affairs in the media – based on ARIMA time-s…
Do the media set the parliamentary agenda? A comparative study in seven countries
A growing body of work has examined the relationship between media and politics from an agenda‐setting perspective: Is attention for issues initiated by political elites with the media following suit, or is the reverse relation stronger? A long series of single‐country studies has suggested a number of general agenda‐setting patterns but these have never been confirmed in a comparative approach. In a comparative, longitudinal design including com…
Attention to EU Affairs in the Spanish Parliament
Recent research demonstrates that the salience of EU affairs in domestic parliaments is mainly driven by government parties. This has been interpreted as illustrating the so-called opposition deficit thesis and mainly explained considering governments’ informational advantages and reporting duties. Drawing on a dataset on oral questions introduced in plenary meetings in the Spanish parliament, this article sheds new light on government and opposi…
The comparative agendas project in Latin America
This paper introduces the Comparative Agendas Project system of coding as well as a wealth of gathered and in process data from Latin America using this established and reliable system for capturing policy attention comparatively and over time. While this is not the first introduction of the coding system, it is the first introduction aimed at Latin America and a new type of political system beyond North American and European democracies. First, …
O Comparative Agendas Project na América Latina
This paper introduces the Comparative Agendas Project system of coding as well as a wealth of gathered and in process data from Latin America using this established and reliable system for capturing policy attention comparatively and over time. While this is not the first introduction of the coding system, it is the first introduction aimed at Latin America and a new type of political system beyond North American and European democracies. First, …
Political actors’ access to the media agenda
This article explores to what extent the euro crisis brought about unprecedented attention to the European Union (EU) and if so with what consequences on the media visibility of different political actors in Spain. Drawing on a database of more than 27,000 stories published in the most read Spanish newspaper from 2004 to 2012, we demonstrate that following the outbreak of the crisis, executive elites receive more media coverage than social moveme…
The Role of the News Media in Fighting Corruption Practices
This article first outlines the conditions in which the media could contribute to creating and maintaining an atmosphere that discourages corruption practices. Second, based on the content analysis of 4361 online news articles, it demonstrates that these conditions are not present in the media coverage of corruption in Spain. The Spanish media do not promote a substantive frame, i.e., a meaningful discussion on the causes, consequences and remedi…
Can Opposition Parties Be Responsible
Opposition responsibility is a neglected field, and if at all noticed, opposition parties are often placed in the irresponsibility frame. The purpose of our paper is to examine to what extent, under which conditions, and in which ways opposition parties can be considered to act responsibly. This article will develop the concept of opposition responsibility and test the expectations in the behaviour of opposition parties in three countries: Hungar…
To amend or not to amend
Based on a new comprehensive dataset containing information on 93,722 amendments, this article explores the circumstances under which Spanish legislators propose amendments to executive bills. Our results show that legislators respond to variations in both governmental factors and bargaining dynamics. In single-party minority governments, ad hoc legislature agreements translate into more amendments. However, legislators do not introduce significa…
The Effect of Ideological Distance on Voting Behaviour in Parliament Under Changing Economic Conditions
In this article we empirically test the impact of ideological distancebetween opposition parties and incumbents on consensus inparliament in two different countries, Portugal and Spain, amidchanging economic conditions. To do so, we employ theComparative Manifesto Project database and develop a measureof ideological distance on the left-right and the centre-peripherydimensions based on parties’preferences as expressed in theirmanifestos. We demon…
El impacto de la cobertura mediática de la corrupción en la opinión pública española
Este artículo analiza la cobertura mediática de los escándalos de corrupciónen España entre 1996 y 2009. El objetivo es, en primer lugar, determinarhasta qué punto los dos periódicos más leídos en España --El País y ElMundo- cubren los escándalos de corrupción siguiendo orientacionespolíticas distintas. Los resultados ponen de manifi esto una coberturamediática partidista -se identifi can diferencias importantes entre ambosperiódicos en la cobert…
Do the regional and European content of legislation shape party behaviour in national parliaments? An analysis of the Spanish case
Using the Spanish case, this paper explores whether the European and regional content of legislation debated in national parliaments influences parties’ legislative behaviour, and more specifically their decision to propose legislative amendments. Based on regression analysis and multilevel modelling for hypothesis testing and an original dataset including information on more than 90,000 amendments, results illustrate that parties are more likely…
Voices heard and unheard
This paper explores the circumstances under which parliamentary groups reference underprivileged groups—specifically, women, immigrants and people with disabilities –in their legislative amendment proposals. Drawing on a comprehensive dataset covering all executive bills passed in Spain between 1996 and 2023, we find that the presence of interest groups in parliamentary hearings significantly increases the visibility of the underprivileged in the…
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