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.
Parliamentary Representation in France
1st Edition
Edited
By Olivier Costa
July 22, 2015
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 characteristics of the political system itself: the Constitution of 1958 has created a semi-presidential ...
Parliaments and Citizens
1st Edition
Edited
By Cristina Leston-Bandeira
November 10, 2014
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 political systems. Furthermore, this relationship has gained considerable visibility over the ...
Legislatures of Small States: A Comparative Study
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicholas Baldwin
September 11, 2014
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 responsibility of a legislature. Though the physical nature and environment of states is a neglected ...
Cohesion and Discipline in Legislatures
1st Edition
Edited
By Reuven Y. Hazan
December 08, 2011
The existence of noticeable 'unified' parties is central to the theory and practice of democracy in general, and to parliamentary democracy in particular. However, legislative studies scholars have good reason to cease treating parties as monolithic, unitary actors, for they evidently are not. The ...
The People's Congresses and Governance in China: Toward a Network Mode of Governance
1st Edition
By Ming Xia
February 08, 2011
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 analysis of the transformation of governance in China. As the first systemic and theoretical ...
The Internet and Parliamentary Democracy in Europe: A Comparative Study of the Ethics of Political Communication in the Digital Age
1st Edition
Edited
By Xiudian Dai, Philip Norton
July 01, 2010
This book investigates the ethical challenges the internet presents to contemporary parliamentary democracy in Europe and how these challenges are being addressed. It fills an important gap: current literature until now has largely focused on the study of internet usage by politicians and ...
Comparing and Classifying Legislatures
1st Edition
Edited
By David Arter
October 13, 2009
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 new review of the state of our knowledge of parliament and tackles key ...
Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Parliaments: The Initial Decade
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip Norton, David M. Olson
February 20, 2009
The sudden collapse of communism stimulated both the rapid emergence of fledgling democracies and scholarly attention to the post-communist transition. These newly democratized parliaments have been described as "parliaments in adolescence". This book identifies six parliaments which exemplify the...
Southern European Parliaments in Democracy
1st Edition
Edited
By Cristina Leston-Bandeira
September 29, 2005
Southern European Parliaments in Democracy analyses the development of the parliaments of Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Turkey since the mid-1980s. This book considers the challenges of the transition to democracy and outlines how the Parliaments of Southern Europe have adapted to ...