LIST OF PANELS

Parliaments and the ministerial bureaucracy are key institutions for policy making in modern democracies. Yet research on public policy and administration has long tended to sideline the important role of parliaments. At the same time, parliamentary research often neglects the policy perspective and merely focuses on events inside the chambers. This panel aims to bring together scholars from the respective disciplines to encourage a dialogue between them and inspire the development of common models and approaches. We invite papers that focus on the relationship between parliaments and the executive. The policy cycle provides a basic heuristic to structure the panel contributions: From an institutional point of view, papers may deal with the mechanisms of delegation and accountability, in the process perspective they may study the role of parliaments in problem definition and agenda setting, for policy formulation they may investigate the different actors in policy making and their interactions, for implementation they may look at the mechanisms of parliamentary control and for evaluation at parliamentary scrutiny. Apart from the stages approach to policy making, papers using alternative heuristics or models such as the Multiple Streams Approach or the Advocacy Coalition Framework are also very welcome as long as they deal with parliaments and the executive. Methodologically, we invite papers with both quantitative and qualitative approaches.

Parliaments and the ministerial bureaucracy are key institutions for policy making in modern democracies. Yet research on public policy and administration has long tended to sideline the important role of parliaments. At the same time, parliamentary research often neglects the policy perspective and merely focuses on events inside the chambers. This panel aims to bring together scholars from the respective disciplines to encourage a dialogue between them and inspire the development of common models and approaches. We invite papers that focus on the relationship between parliaments and the executive. The chances and opportunities of such collaboration have become apparent during a few "crossover" presentations during the 2014 ECPR conference in Glasgow and were also stressed in the Standing Group on Parliaments there. This panel is proposed by scholars with backgrounds in public administration studies (Fleischer, Veit) and parliamentary research (Stecker, Siefken) who will employ their networks into the respective discziplines to advertise the call for papers. It is planned that discussants will take a crossover perspective, too.