Transcripts of query sessions in the Vietnamese National Assembly, where delegates question the prime minister and Cabinet members. The data was used by Edmund Malesky of Duke University to offer the first empirical test of delegate behavior in nondemocratic parliaments. The analysis finds delegate responsiveness is parameterized by regime rules for nomination, election, and assignment of parliamentary responsibilities.
Use Cases
- Analyzing delegate participation patterns based on session transcripts.
- Measuring criticism of authorities based on query content analysis.
- Studying the link between local constituent needs and delegate queries.
- Modeling how regime nomination and election rules parameterize delegate responsiveness.
Strengths
- Data provides a rare empirical view into an opaque authoritarian parliament.
- Content analysis methodology offers a structured approach to testing cooptation theory.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- Vietnamese National Assembly transcripts.
- Collection Method
- Content analysis of query session transcripts.
- Time Range
- Time range is unknown.
- Freshness
- Last updated date is unknown.
- Geography
- Vietnam.