Library of Legislative Studies
About the Book Series
The Library of Legislative Studies comprises scholarly books - including individual country studies as well as major comparative works - that advance knowledge of legislatures and legislative processes. The volumes in the library are designed to be of value to students and scholars in legislative studies, comparative government, constitutional law, and European and regional integration.
The Northern Ireland Assembly: Reputations and Realities
1st Edition
By Sean Haughey
December 18, 2024
Northern Ireland’s power- sharing Assembly is understudied in the legislative studies literature. Having been suspended (or de facto suspended) for around 40% of its existence, conversation has tended to focus more on the wider political problems in which the Assembly has been enmeshed and less on ...
Parliamentary Committees in a Party-Centred Context: Looking Behind the Scenes
1st Edition
By Tim Alexander Mickler
January 29, 2024
This book examines the working procedures of parliamentary party groups within specialised committees - the backstage but primary means for MPs to influence policy. It explains which MPs specialise in particular policy areas, how they make policy choices in committees, and, subsequently, how these ...
The Impact of Legislatures: A Quarter-Century of The Journal of Legislative Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip Norton
January 29, 2024
The Impact of Legislatures 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 make sense of the impact of legislatures in the modern world. Encompassing theory, comparative ...
Parliaments and Post-Legislative Scrutiny
1st Edition
Edited
By Franklin de Vrieze, Philip Norton
September 25, 2023
To what extent have parliaments a responsibility to monitor how laws are implemented as intended and have the expected impact? Is the practice of Post-Legislative Scrutiny emerging as a new dimension within the oversight role of parliament? What approach do parliaments apply in assessing the ...
MPs’ Roles and Representation: Orientations, Incentives and Behaviours in Italy
1st Edition
By Federico Russo
May 31, 2023
This book examines the content of MPs’ activities through which parliamentarians generate representative claims. Challenging the idea that studying individual representation is a futile exercise, this book shows that looking at the opinions and behavioural patterns of parliamentarians can shed ...
Parliamentary Committees in the Policy Process
1st Edition
Edited
By Sven T. Siefken, Hilmar Rommetvedt
May 31, 2023
This book sheds new light on the often shadowy, but essential role of committees, which exist in modern parliaments around the globe, and it questions the conventional notion that the ‘real’ work of parliament happens in committees. Renowned country specialists take a close look at what goes on in ...
The Roles and Function of Parliamentary Questions
1st Edition
Edited
By Shane Martin, Olivier Rozenberg
June 16, 2017
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 government. This volume advances our theoretical and empirical knowledge of the use of questioning in a ...
Government-Opposition in Southern European Countries during the Economic Crisis: Great Recession, Great Cooperation?
1st Edition
Edited
By Elisabetta Giorgi, Catherine Moury
June 07, 2017
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 parliament (especially those in opposition) have found themselves faced with a dilemma: choosing between the...
Executive Leadership and Legislative Assemblies
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicholas D. J. Baldwin
July 08, 2016
The relationship between a head of government (head of the executive branch) and a nation's parliament or legislative assembly (the legislative branch) has long been the focus for comment and analysis - for example, has the prime minister in the United Kingdom come to a position of dominance at the...
From Legislation to Legitimation: The Role of the Portuguese Parliament
1st Edition
By Cristina Leston-Bandeira
April 27, 2016
This book is unique as the only book on the Portuguese parliament in English. The Portuguese parliament is a valuable case study to understand the different stages of development of a newly democratic parliament. From Legislation to Legitimation shows that, as democracy developed, the role of the ...
The Europeanisation of Parliamentary Democracy
1st Edition
Edited
By Katrin Auel, Arthur Benz
February 29, 2016
This groundbreaking new study shows how the process of creating an ever closer European Union affects not only the policy-making, but also the politics and polity of the Member States. Empirical studies on the domestic impact of Europe identified different forms of Europeanization due to ...
Parliamentary Opposition in Old and New Democracies
1st Edition
Edited
By Ludger Helms
January 20, 2016
Previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies, this volume offers a broad comparative assessment of the many faces of parliamentary opposition in different political, legal and cultural settings. Issues of political opposition, and of parliamentary opposition in ...