'New politics', crisis effects and format effects : a comparative study of hostility and positivity in exchanges between leaders during UK Prime Minister's questions and Scottish and Welsh First Minister's questions
Ludwicki-Ziegler, Sebastian and Shephard, Mark (2023) 'New politics', crisis effects and format effects : a comparative study of hostility and positivity in exchanges between leaders during UK Prime Minister's questions and Scottish and Welsh First Minister's questions. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 26 (2). pp. 505-527. ISSN 1369-1481 (https://doi.org/10.1177/13691481231199890)
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Abstract
Existing research on party leader questioning in legislatures usually focuses on single case studies, less-than-ideal behaviours across leaders, and often post-election periods. Our article compares hostility and positivity in behaviours across three parliaments and, because of the COVID-19 crisis, across different time periods and modes of operation (live, hybrid, and online) while controlling for the same leaders. Using content analysis at the sentence level (N?=?3554), our data contrast parliamentary leader hostility and positivity levels in the UK, Scottish, and Welsh Parliaments across three time periods: pre-COVID-19, initial, and lockdown COVID-19. Findings for positivity are mixed, but for hostility, we find that while the initial shock of the COVID-19 crisis suppressed hostility, Westminster has higher ratios of hostility across all three time periods, and that format of operation has little effect on behaviour. Findings suggest less hostility in Scotland and Wales than in Westminster adding possible weight to ?new politics? arguments.
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Ludwicki-Ziegler, Sebastian and Shephard, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5350-4734;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 86921 Dates: DateEvent29 September 2023Published29 September 2023Published Online8 August 2023AcceptedSubjects: Political Science > Political institutions (Europe) > Great Britain Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Government and Public Policy > Politics Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 11 Oct 2023 12:45 Last modified: 05 Oct 2024 00:40 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/86921