Topics Length of legislative sessions

Constitute topics are built from the variables in the Comparative Constitutions Project’s dataset, which captures the content of world constitutions. The particular variables relevant to this topic are listed below, in the form of survey questions.

More information about the CCP’s research design is available here, including background information on how the team designed the inventory of constitutional topics as well as the full coding survey

Description

The number of days or months that the legislature meets within a year.

Categories

Legislature

Survey Questions

  • For how long are legislators in session during each year?