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Csaba Molnár
Parliamentary questions have several functions in modern democracies.Academic literature also presents that this tool also exists in non-democraticregimes, even though with limited functions. In this paper, we investigate themore than 14,000 interpellations posed in the Hungarian parliament between1867 and 2018 through various regimes, asking the question how does theregime and its institutional settings influence local content of interpellations.We investigated three hypotheses regarding them. We have found that (1)lower level of democracy increases the probability of local content’soccurrence in interpellations; (2) MPs elected in local level poseinterpellations concerning local issues with a higher probability; and finally(3) MPs pose interpellations with local content with a higher probability if thelocal governments are more powerful.
