The Impact of Legislature brings together key articles and path-breaking scholarship published in The Journal of Legislative Studies during its first 25 years of publication, enabling the reader to ma
The book explains and analyses the complexity of the legislative activities performed by the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, and how these are framed within the legislature’s internal organization’s st
The aim of this book is to analyse to what extent regional parliaments have been able to overcome their resource limitations and to exercise effective parliamentary control over European issues. The c
This book develops a critical analysis of the Brazilian Legislature, specifically the role of its lower chamber, the Chamber of Deputies, in policy making and how this combines with its public engagem
The international economic crisis has hit Europe, especially its ‘periphery’, remarkably hard, and has had deep consequences at the economic and political levels. Since its onset, parties in parliamen
Over the last twenty years, the role of national parliaments in EU affairs has gained considerable academic attention. Much of the literature, however, has focused on parliamentary scrutiny and contro
Despite real improvements since the beginning of the last decade, legislative studies are still underdeveloped in France, compared to other modern democracies. This weakness is linked to the character
The relationship between parliaments and citizens is one of the least studied subjects in legislative studies, yet this is a crucial dimension to understand parliaments and the role they play in our p
This book seeks to provide a systematic and systematically comparative evaluation of the links between parliaments, parliamentarians and citizens in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland. It pr
This book provides a comparative study of the legislatures of small nations, states and territories, to explore the extent to which size is a factor in how they function and fulfil the roles and respo
Parliamentary questions are a feature of almost all national legislatures. Despite this, we know very little about how questions are used by MPs and what impact questions have on controlling the gover
At the end of the "founding" or initial decade, the new parliaments of post-Communist Europe had developed two distinct types: democratic and presidentially-dominated. Whilst in the early years, they
This book provides a balanced assessment of China’s communist rule, its viability as well as its prospect of democracy.The People's Congresses and Governance in China presents a complex but convincing
Recent years have witnessed substantial work in the legislative studies field. But what do we know about legislatures today and are there clear criteria for comparing and classifying them? This is a n
Legislative second chambers are very much the junior partner to their first chambers, with less power and influence within the political systems they exist in, and many observers over the past century
The bases of uneasy member-leadership relations, their manifestation and sometimes resolution, and the consequences of member-leadership tension to effective parliamentary performace and policy-making
