Topics Immunity of legislators

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

Protection, whether absolute or limited, against prosecution for members of the legislature. This may involve protection against prosecution for certain kinds of crimes, or for a specified period of time.

Categories

Legislature

Survey Questions

  • Does the constitution provide for immunity for the members of the legislature under some conditions?