Research summary
My current research focuses on:
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coalition politics,
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legislative politics,
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parliamentary institutions,
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institutional change in European parliamentary democracies.
My research interests include:
Government, Constitutions, Institutions and Governments, Comparative Politics and Government, Institutions and organisations, Legislatures, Parliaments
Teaching
Undergraduate:
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Introduction to Politics (Prelims)
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Comparative Government
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Politics in Europe
Graduate:
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European Governance
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Comparative European Parliaments
Publications
Journal Articles
2024
Zubek, R. (2024) “How coalitions shape legislative institutions in parliamentary democracies”, Journal of Politics [Preprint].
Available at https://doi.org/10.1086/734243
Fleming, T., Hix, S. and Zubek, R. (2024) “The origins of centralized agenda control at Westminster: Consensus or controversy?”, Legislative Studies Quarterly [Preprint].
Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12480
2020
Zubek, R. (2020) “Committee strength in parliamentary democracies: A new index”, European Journal of Political Research [Preprint].
Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12426
Zubek, R., Dasgupta, A. and Doyle, D. (2020) “Measuring the significance of policy outputs with positive unlabeled learning”, American Political Science Review, 115(1), pp. 339–346.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/S000305542000091X
ZUBEK, R. (2020) “Committee Strength in Parliamentary Democracies: A New Index”, European Journal of Political Research [Preprint].
2017
Klüver, H. and Zubek, R. (2017) “Minority governments and legislative reliability: Evidence from Denmark and Sweden”, Party Politics, 24(6), pp. 719–730.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068817695742
2015
Zubek, R. (2015) “Legislative Organisation and its Determinants in European Parliamentary Democracies”, West European Politics, 38(5), pp. 933–939.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2015.1045291
Zubek, R. (2015) “Coalition Government and Committee Power”, West European Politics, 38(5), pp. 1020–1041.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2015.1045322
Chapters
2022
Zubek, R. (2022) “Minority governments in Poland: governing after a crisis with ad hoc majorities”, in B. Field and S. Martin (eds.) Minority Governments in Comparative Perspective. Oxford University Press, pp. 241–261.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192871657.003.0012
Datasets
2023
Fleming, T., Goet, N. and Zubek, R. (2023) “UK House of Commons Standing Orders Dataset, Version 2.1.0, ParlRulesData Project. 2022”. University of Oxford.
Available at https://doi.org/10.5287/bodleian:dm6OvPvDD
2020
Zubek, R., Fleming, T. and Goet, N. (2020) “UK House of Commons Standing Orders Dataset, Version 2.0.0, ParlRulesData Project. 2020”. University of Oxford.
Available at https://doi.org/10.5287/bodleian:a4vbkVarR
