Comparative Legislatures
Author: Michael L. Mezey
Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13:
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The Iberian Legislatures in Comparative Perspective
Author: Jorge M. Fernandes
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2019-05-23
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1351065211
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive book analyses the development of the legislatures in the Iberian countries over the past 40 years, since democracy was introduced, to comparatively understand their role in these political systems and in sustaining their democratic systems. Sharing many historical developments and institutional characteristics, Spain and Portugal also present crucial differences, notably Spain’s pure parliamentary system, a King as Head of State and a quasi-federal structure, and Portugal’s semi-presidential democracy. Starting with a historical and institutional contextualization of these two legislatures, the book examines the most important organizational and behavioural features of legislative life in Iberian legislatures in a comparative perspective. It also shows how new legislatures develop resilience capacity to support lasting democratic systems as fully fledged institutionalized bodies. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of Spain and Portugal, legislative politics and parliamentarianism, and more broadly to European politics and comparative politics, journalists and practitioners.
Legislatures of Small States
Author: Nicholas D J Baldwin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-02
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1135102988
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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 responsibility of a legislature. Though the physical nature and environment of states is a neglected subject in political science research, this book examines the impact of small state size on the structure and functions of legislatures and contributes to a better understanding of the interplay of physical and social factors. Focussing on legislatures in democratic nations or in territories that are parts of democratic units, the book features case studies on Malta, Bermuda, Jersey, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Lesotho, Liechtenstein, the Isle of Man, Commonwealth Caribbean, Nunavut (Canada), Pacific islands, Swaziland, and Scotland. Contributors employ an interdisciplinary approach to examine both the outcomes and causes of different political mechanisms, and bring to the surface underlying correlation between small states through their analysis. Legislatures of Small States will be of interest to students and scholars of international politics, comparative politics and legislative studies.
Legislative Politics in Latin America
Author: Scott Morgenstern
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-03-04
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9780521796590
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis theoretically inspired study explores legislative politics in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. Instead of beginning with an assumption that these legislatures are either rubber-stamps or obstructionist bodies, the chapters provide new data and a fresh analytical approach to describe and explain the role of these representative bodies in these consolidating democracies. For each country the book provides three chapters dedicated, in turn, to executive-legislative relations, the legislatures' organizational structure, and the policy process.
Democratic Legislative Institutions: A Comparative View
Author: David M. Olson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-02-24
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1317473140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text summarizes the research on, and experiences of, democratic legislatures around the world. It focuses on what legislatures are and what they do - as both consequence of and contributor to democratic self-government.
The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies
Author: Shane Martin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 785
ISBN-13: 0199653011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLegislatures are arguably the most important political institution in modern democracies. The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies, written by some of the most distinguished legislative scholars in political science, provides a comprehensive and up-to-date description and critical assessment of the state of the art in this key area.
Legislatures
Author: Gerhard Loewenberg
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780472097906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the implications of recent research on the U.S. Congress for legislative research outside the United States
Parliament and Parliamentarism
Author: Pasi Ihalainen
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2016-01-01
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 1782389555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKParliamentary theory, practices, discourses, and institutions constitute a distinctively European contribution to modern politics. Taking a broad historical perspective, this cross-disciplinary, innovative, and rigorous collection locates the essence of parliamentarism in four key aspects—deliberation, representation, responsibility, and sovereignty—and explores the different ways in which they have been contested, reshaped, and implemented in a series of representative national and regional case studies. As one of the first comparative studies in conceptual history, this volume focuses on debates about the nature of parliament and parliamentarism within and across different European countries, representative institutions, and genres of political discourse.
The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy
Author: Barry R. Weingast
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2008-06-19
Total Pages: 1112
ISBN-13: 0199548471
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver its lifetime, 'political economy' has had different meanings. This handbook views political economy as a synthesis of the various strands of social science, treating it as the methodology of economics applied to the analysis of political behaviour and institutions.
Legislative Voting and Accountability
Author: John M. Carey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-12-15
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1139476793
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLegislatures are the core representative institutions in modern democracies. Citizens want legislatures to be decisive, and they want accountability, but they are frequently disillusioned with the representation legislators deliver. Political parties can provide decisiveness in legislatures, and they may provide collective accountability, but citizens and political reformers frequently demand another type of accountability from legislators – at the individual level. Can legislatures provide both kinds of accountability? This book considers what collective and individual accountability require and provides the most extensive cross-national analysis of legislative voting undertaken to date. It illustrates the balance between individualistic and collective representation in democracies, and how party unity in legislative voting shapes that balance. In addition to quantitative analysis of voting patterns, the book draws on extensive field and archival research to provide an extensive assessment of legislative transparency throughout the Americas.
