The Oxford Handbook of Legislative StudiesShane Martin, Thomas Saalfeld, Kaare W. 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. |
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Contents
The Sociology of Legislators and Legislatures | |
Typologies and Classifications | |
RollCall Analysis and the Study of Legislatures | |
Content Analysis in Legislative Studies | |
Debate and Deliberation in Legislatures | |
Party Discipline | |
Legislative Party Switching | |
Legislative Institutions and Coalition Government | |
Institutional Foundations of Legislative AgendaSetting | |
Lawmaking | |
Legislatures and Public Finance | |
Legislatures Lobbying and Interest Groups | |
Legislatures and Foreign Policy | |
Interviews and Surveys in Legislative Research | |
The Experimental Study of Legislative Behaviour | |
Implications and Challenges for Legislative | |
The Effect of Electoral Institutions on Legislative Behaviour | |
Gender and Legislatures | |
Roles in Legislatures | |
Legislative Careers | |
Procedure and Rules in Legislatures | |
The Politics of Bicameralism | |
Committees | |
Political Parties and Legislators | |
Common Agency? Legislatures and Bureaucracies | |
Political Behaviour in the European Parliament | |
SubNational Legislatures | |
The Study of Legislatures in Latin America | |
Legislatures in Central and Eastern Europe | |
Authoritarian Legislatures | |
Reluctant Democrats and Their Legislatures | |
Name Index | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies Oxford Handbooks |
| Editors | Shane Martin, Thomas Saalfeld, Kaare W. Strøm |
| Publisher | OUP Oxford, 2014 |
| ISBN | 0191019070, 9780191019074 |
| Length | 800 pages |
| Subjects | › › Political Science / Comparative Politics Political Science / Political Process / General Political Science / Political Process / Political Parties |
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