DAVID ARTER (ed.)

Comparing and Classifying Legislatures

Herausgeber: Arter, David

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 questions: Do legislatures matter in legislative terms, and, if so, how much? What is the extent of the legislature's control of the legislative process. How can we classify legislatures on the basis of their relative legislative performance. Five measures of the policy power of parliaments are applied in the country/region chapters. This book was previously published as a special issue of the leading Journal of Legislative Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 566g
• ISBN-13: 9780415375870
• ISBN-10: 0415375878
• Artikelnr.: 26676856

Autorenporträt

David Arter holds the First Chair of Politics at the University of Aberdeen

Inhaltsangabe

1. On Comparing and Classifying Legislatures 2. Legislatures in
Presidential Systems: The Latin American Case 3. Does the Folketing Matter?
The Legislative Impact of the Danish Parliament 4. The Baltic Parliaments:
Legislative Performance in View of EU Accession 5. The Exceptional
Assembly? The US Congress in Comparative Perspective 6. On Evaluating the
Legislative Worth of the Israeli Knesset 7. Characterising the Italian
Parliament. Legislative Change in Longitudinal Perspective 8. Initiatives
for Change: Assessing Legislative Performance in Southern Africa 9. Not as
Weak as Widely Perceived? The Legislative Impact of the French National
Assembly during the Fifth Republic 10. The Legislative Output of the
Finnish Eduskunta since the Second World War Conclusions