Books in the Library of Legislative Studies series

This book - previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies - asks why legislative unity is one of the distinguishing features of modern political parties.

This volume makes a theoretical as well as empirical contribution to the debate on the role of national parliaments in European politics by investigating their efforts to communicate EU issues to their electorates.

This book offers an in-depth look at how particular countries and the European Union conduct Post-Legislative Scrutiny. The analysis puts Post-Legislative Scrutiny in the context of parliamentary oversight and parliaments' engagement in the legislative cycle.

This volume explores patterns of parliamentary questioning in several national parliaments to help us better understand both the role orientation of individual MPs and the function and performance of parliament as a core part of the political system. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies.

Does the level of cooperation between government and opposition parties increased, or rather decreased, in hard times? The present volume introduces a collection of works exploring the government-opposition dynamics in southern European countries, at the time of the economic crisis.This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies.

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.

In this book - previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies - an international group of scholars examines the relationship between the executive and legislative branches of developed and developing democracies.

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.

Does the level of cooperation between government and opposition parties increased, or rather decreased, in hard times? The present volume introduces a collection of works exploring the government-opposition dynamics in southern European countries, at the time of the economic crisis. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies.

This volume makes a theoretical as well as empirical contribution to the debate on the role of national parliaments in European politics by investigating their efforts to communicate EU issues to their electorates.

This book provides, for the first time in decades, an in-depth analysis of parliamentary representation in France by looking at MPs¿ profiles, behaviour and expectations, citizens¿ views on representation, and National Assembly activities and influence. It is a must-read for students and scholars interested in legislative studies or French politics.

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.

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.

This book - previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies - looks into the development of the parliaments of Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Turkey since the mid 1980s.

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. This volume addresses the key issue of the Europeanisation of parliamentary systems. It focuses on different elements, such as structures, procedures and decision-making processes.

The book explains and analyses the complexity of the legislative activities performed by the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, and how these are framed within the legislature's internal organization's structure. The chapters originally published as a special issue in the Journal of Legislative Studies.

This book assesses the relationship between parliaments and citizens in a wide range of case studies. It explores the extent to which the last decade has brought significant changes to this relationship.This book was published as a special issue of Journal of Legislative Studies.

This book examines how over the last twenty years two basic types of post-communist parliaments have persisted, with underlying changes in their party systems, and how they function in practice. This book was published as a special issue of Journal of Legislative Studies.

This book combines mainstream historical and social science approaches with cultural theory to consider how parliamentary ritual is constructed through ceremony, space and socialisation.This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies.

The existence of noticeable 'unified' parties is central to the theory and practice of democracy in general, and to parliamentary democracy in particular. This book asks why legislative unity is one of the distinguishing features of modern political parties.

In this book - previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies - an international group of scholars examines the relationship between the executive and legislative branches of developed and developing democracies.

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?

Investigates the ethical challenges the internet presents to contemporary parliamentary democracy in Europe and how these challenges are being addressed. This book compares four European parliaments in Europe: the British, European, Portuguese and Swedish Parliaments, using both quantitative methods and qualitative methods.

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 wide range of developments in the new post-communist political systems, from the stable consolidated democracies to the less stable and more authoritarian states, within which their respective parliaments function. Finally the post-communist parliaments are compared with the presumptively more established west European parliaments. This book bridges the usual gap in research between the post-communist parliaments and more normal democratic parliaments to develop a common legislative research perspective on both new and established parliaments. This book was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies.

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.

Provides an assessment of China's communist rule, its viability as well as its prospect of democracy. This work offers a comprehensive explanation about why the provincial legislatures have acquired institutional maturation and expanded power in the context of Chinese transitional political economy.

Offers an assessment of the new parliaments that emerged as communism collapsed. This book aims to bridge the usual gap in research between the post-communist parliaments and more "normal" democratic parliaments to develop a common legislative research perspective on both new and established parliaments.

The Impact of Legislature 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 the legislature in the modern world.