Bücher der Reihe Library of Legislative Studies

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.

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 implementation and impact of legislation? These are the fascinating questions guiding this book.Case studies offer 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.The purpose of this book is to demonstrate the value of Post-Legislative Scrutiny as a public good, benefiting the executive, legislature and the people in ensuring that law delivers what is expected of it, as well as to respond to the need for greater clarity as to what is meant by the term. In this way, the publication can assist legislatures to think more clearly as to what precisely they understand, and seek to achieve, by Post-Legislative Scrutiny.This book is the result of the co-operation between the Centre for Legislative Studies at the University of Hull and the Westminster Foundation for Democracy. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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?

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.