How many national parliaments (the buildings) have you visited?
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How many national parliaments (the buildings) have you visited?
My hypothesis is that a significant mid-double-digit percentage of people have at least visited the one in their home country (often as part of a school trip) and the other options will all be single digit percentages.
I'm not gonne do the "boost for scientific accuracy" thing here.. but, uhm.. if you can boost this it'll be more accurate, in a scientistic way.
Mainly: tell us about your experiences!
@Pepijn the one in the Netherlands and the one in Hungary!
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@Pepijn I can't remember if I've actually been in the 2e kamer or not but I must have been there at least once in my life I think?
@ysbreker Common experience I suspect: the second time I visited the 2e kamer I instantly realised it was not the first time I visited.. My mind had completely erased a school trip years earlier.
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How many national parliaments (the buildings) have you visited?
My hypothesis is that a significant mid-double-digit percentage of people have at least visited the one in their home country (often as part of a school trip) and the other options will all be single digit percentages.
I'm not gonne do the "boost for scientific accuracy" thing here.. but, uhm.. if you can boost this it'll be more accurate, in a scientistic way.
Mainly: tell us about your experiences!
@Pepijn I don't believe I've been to any, I don't know of anyone in the UK who visited the Palace of Westminster for a school trip, but maybe it was more of a thing down south
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How many national parliaments (the buildings) have you visited?
My hypothesis is that a significant mid-double-digit percentage of people have at least visited the one in their home country (often as part of a school trip) and the other options will all be single digit percentages.
I'm not gonne do the "boost for scientific accuracy" thing here.. but, uhm.. if you can boost this it'll be more accurate, in a scientistic way.
Mainly: tell us about your experiences!
@Pepijn - I am perhaps not a representative datum. I'm American, and I live near DC, so visiting the Capitol is a pretty standard school day trip.
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@Pepijn the one in the Netherlands and the one in Hungary!
@Anneke I'd love to visit the Hungarian one. Their website (https://www.parlament.hu/web/visitors/visitor-route) makes it out to be mostly a show of the building, and not so much the political stuff going on inside. Is that your experience as well?
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@Pepijn I don't believe I've been to any, I don't know of anyone in the UK who visited the Palace of Westminster for a school trip, but maybe it was more of a thing down south
@alexisbushnell Maybe it's regional indeed. I do remember most of my Welsh classmates at uni had visited both the assembly in Cardiff and Westminster in London.
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How many national parliaments (the buildings) have you visited?
My hypothesis is that a significant mid-double-digit percentage of people have at least visited the one in their home country (often as part of a school trip) and the other options will all be single digit percentages.
I'm not gonne do the "boost for scientific accuracy" thing here.. but, uhm.. if you can boost this it'll be more accurate, in a scientistic way.
Mainly: tell us about your experiences!
@Pepijn Likely only Christianborg in Copenhagen, and only because I lived there and basically only the tower because it had a nice view and is free to go up in
I don’t remember visiting parliaments when touristing in capitals (or I might have forgotten), and I never saw the one in France even from the outside (having been in the capital only twice 
). To be clear, I’m interested in what happens in there, just not particularly the places themselves! -
How many national parliaments (the buildings) have you visited?
My hypothesis is that a significant mid-double-digit percentage of people have at least visited the one in their home country (often as part of a school trip) and the other options will all be single digit percentages.
I'm not gonne do the "boost for scientific accuracy" thing here.. but, uhm.. if you can boost this it'll be more accurate, in a scientistic way.
Mainly: tell us about your experiences!
@Pepijn I count 1e/2e Kamer as one, and definitely been to Westminster. Bundestag not sure - but I’ve been to the NRW one in Düsseldorf and the Hessen one in Wiesbaden for sure, and also the European Parliament in Strassburg. Seen lots of others from the outside but didn’t go in. I did visit the not-building place of the Landsgemeinde Appenzell-Innerrhoden, though again it isn’t national.
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How many national parliaments (the buildings) have you visited?
My hypothesis is that a significant mid-double-digit percentage of people have at least visited the one in their home country (often as part of a school trip) and the other options will all be single digit percentages.
I'm not gonne do the "boost for scientific accuracy" thing here.. but, uhm.. if you can boost this it'll be more accurate, in a scientistic way.
Mainly: tell us about your experiences!
@Pepijn one, but not strictly my home country parliament-I’ve been to the Scottish Parliament but not Westminster
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How many national parliaments (the buildings) have you visited?
My hypothesis is that a significant mid-double-digit percentage of people have at least visited the one in their home country (often as part of a school trip) and the other options will all be single digit percentages.
I'm not gonne do the "boost for scientific accuracy" thing here.. but, uhm.. if you can boost this it'll be more accurate, in a scientistic way.
Mainly: tell us about your experiences!
@Pepijn I just realized that I have never been in the US Capitol despite only living 30 miles away (about 48 km). The closest I’ve been in another country is the exterior of the UK parliament. And only one state legislative building, the Maryland State House.
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How many national parliaments (the buildings) have you visited?
My hypothesis is that a significant mid-double-digit percentage of people have at least visited the one in their home country (often as part of a school trip) and the other options will all be single digit percentages.
I'm not gonne do the "boost for scientific accuracy" thing here.. but, uhm.. if you can boost this it'll be more accurate, in a scientistic way.
Mainly: tell us about your experiences!
@Pepijn
I think the only one I've been inside was the Scottish Parliament; my own one (Westminster) I've been outside but not inside. Similarly I've stood outside the Reichstag but don't remember going inside (I was quite young).So I guess it depends what counts as a visit!
I liked the Scottish Parliament a lot, it's a really interesting building.
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How many national parliaments (the buildings) have you visited?
My hypothesis is that a significant mid-double-digit percentage of people have at least visited the one in their home country (often as part of a school trip) and the other options will all be single digit percentages.
I'm not gonne do the "boost for scientific accuracy" thing here.. but, uhm.. if you can boost this it'll be more accurate, in a scientistic way.
Mainly: tell us about your experiences!
@Pepijn I voted zero on the basis that having been outside my country’s on many occasions is not the same as visiting it
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@Pepijn Likely only Christianborg in Copenhagen, and only because I lived there and basically only the tower because it had a nice view and is free to go up in
I don’t remember visiting parliaments when touristing in capitals (or I might have forgotten), and I never saw the one in France even from the outside (having been in the capital only twice ). To be clear, I’m interested in what happens in there, just not particularly the places themselves!> To be clear, I’m interested in what happens in there, just not particularly the places themselves!
Same. The building "as a building" is not something I'm especially interested in. Having visited a bunch of them (I'm very much in the "5 or more" category) I find the choices made in things like accessibility (what do you, what can't you see), focus in tours, layout and design give an interesting insight in a countries political culture.
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How many national parliaments (the buildings) have you visited?
My hypothesis is that a significant mid-double-digit percentage of people have at least visited the one in their home country (often as part of a school trip) and the other options will all be single digit percentages.
I'm not gonne do the "boost for scientific accuracy" thing here.. but, uhm.. if you can boost this it'll be more accurate, in a scientistic way.
Mainly: tell us about your experiences!
@Pepijn can I include the EU parliament?
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How many national parliaments (the buildings) have you visited?
My hypothesis is that a significant mid-double-digit percentage of people have at least visited the one in their home country (often as part of a school trip) and the other options will all be single digit percentages.
I'm not gonne do the "boost for scientific accuracy" thing here.. but, uhm.. if you can boost this it'll be more accurate, in a scientistic way.
Mainly: tell us about your experiences!
@Pepijn@mastodon.online 0 unless you mean “seen the outside and taken photos of” in which case it’s a massive … 2.
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How many national parliaments (the buildings) have you visited?
My hypothesis is that a significant mid-double-digit percentage of people have at least visited the one in their home country (often as part of a school trip) and the other options will all be single digit percentages.
I'm not gonne do the "boost for scientific accuracy" thing here.. but, uhm.. if you can boost this it'll be more accurate, in a scientistic way.
Mainly: tell us about your experiences!
@Pepijn Parlement de Bretagne : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palais_du_Parlement_de_Bretagne
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@Pepijn can I include the EU parliament?
@juliette I didn't study political science but IIRC the EU parliament is a transnational supranational assembly.
So no.
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How many national parliaments (the buildings) have you visited?
My hypothesis is that a significant mid-double-digit percentage of people have at least visited the one in their home country (often as part of a school trip) and the other options will all be single digit percentages.
I'm not gonne do the "boost for scientific accuracy" thing here.. but, uhm.. if you can boost this it'll be more accurate, in a scientistic way.
Mainly: tell us about your experiences!
@Pepijn Hmm, yeah, my home country, sure, that's easy. But I've also been to quite a couple of other countries, often the capitals, often on sight-seeing. I guess I *must* have been at least close to another parliament building once. But I can't remember a specific instance or going inside. So voting 1.
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@juliette I didn't study political science but IIRC the EU parliament is a transnational supranational assembly.
So no.
@Pepijn booooooo
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note: I won't edit the poll as people already answered. Just to say, read "national parliament" as the building in which a legislature sits and makes laws. Like the Palace of Westminster (UK) and Binnenhof (Netherlands)
Typical. We're a 100 participants in and my hypothesis are utterly unsupported.
I'm surprised to see not a single "5 or more" vote.
Already some interesting comments!
