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ISBN 10: 0191019070
ISBN 13: 9780191019074
Author: Shane Martin, ‎Thomas Saalfeld, ‎Kaare Strøm

Legislatures are political bodies essential to democracy and the rule of law. They present social scientists with numerous intriguing puzzles, with far-reaching implications for our understanding of political institutions. Why, and how, have these ancient assemblies, established in pre-democratic times, survived the transition to mass democracies? How have they adapted? How do they structure such processes as budgeting, legislation, and executive oversight? How do their members get selected, and what consequences flow from differences in these rules? What roles do committees and political parties play in contemporary legislatures? What functions do legislatures perform in autocratic, semi-democratic or recently democratized societies? What explains the similarities and differences in legislative rules, powers and recruitment? What are the policy and other consequences of variation in how legislatures are organized and function? The 33 chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies, written by 47 of the most distinguished legislative scholars, provide a comprehensive and up-to-date description and assessment of the state of the art in legislative studies. Key themes explored include theoretical paradigms and methodological approaches to the study of legislatures, representation and legislative careers, internal organization, the role of parties within legislatures and the role of legislatures in policy making and accountability. The Handbook also explores the emergence of parliaments in historical and contemporary contexts, including new democracies and trans-national institutions.

The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction

Part I Theoretical Approaches in Legislative Studies

2. Formal Models of Legislatures

3. The Sociology of Legislators and Legislatures

4. Typologies and Classifications

Part II Methods of Legislative Research

5. Roll-Call Analysis and the Study of Legislatures

6. Words as Data: Content Analysis in Legislative Studies

7. Debate and Deliberation in Legislatures

8. Interviews and Surveys in Legislative Research

9. The Experimental Study of Legislative Behaviour

Part III Representation and Legislative Careers

10. Candidate Selection: Implications and Challenges for Legislative Behaviour

11. The Effect of Electoral Institutions on Legislative Behaviour

12. Gender and Legislatures

13. Roles in Legislatures

14. Legislative Careers

Part IV Organization and Rules

15. Procedure and Rules in Legislatures

16. The Politics of Bicameralism

17. Committees

Part V Parties in the Legislature

18. Political Parties and Legislators

19. Party Discipline

20. Legislative Party Switching

21. Legislative Institutions and Coalition Government

Part VI Policy-Making and Oversight

22. Institutional Foundations of Legislative Agenda-Setting

23. Lawmaking

24. Legislatures and Public Finance

25. Legislatures, Lobbying, and Interest Groups

26. Legislatures and Foreign Policy

27. Common Agency? Legislatures and Bureaucracies

Part VII Expanding the Scope of Legislative Analysis

28. Political Behaviour in the European Parliament

29. Sub-National Legislatures

30. The Study of Legislatures in Latin America

31. Legislatures in Central and Eastern Europe

32. Authoritarian Legislatures

33. Reluctant Democrats and Their Legislatures

Name Index

Subject Index

 

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