The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies

NOTE EDITORE

Legislatures are political bodies essential to democracy and the rule of law. They present social scientists with numerous intriguing puzzles, with far-reaching implications for our understanding of political institutions. Why, and how, have these ancient assemblies, established in pre-democratic times, survived the transition to mass democracies? How have they adapted? How do they structure such processes as budgeting, legislation, and executive oversight? How do their members get selected, and what consequences flow from differences in these rules? What roles do committees and political parties play in contemporary legislatures? What functions do legislatures perform in autocratic, semi-democratic or recently democratized societies? What explains the similarities and differences in legislative rules, powers and recruitment? What are the policy and other consequences of variation in how legislatures are organized and function? The 33 chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies, written by 47 of the most distinguished legislative scholars, provide a comprehensive and up-to-date description and assessment of the state of the art in legislative studies. Key themes explored include theoretical paradigms and methodological approaches to the study of legislatures, representation and legislative careers, internal organization, the role of parties within legislatures and the role of legislatures in policy making and accountability. The Handbook also explores the emergence of parliaments in historical and contemporary contexts, including new democracies and trans-national institutions.

SOMMARIO

1 - Introduction2 - Formal Models of Legislatures3 - The Sociology of Legislatures and Legislators4 - Typologies and Classifications5 - Roll Call Analysis and the Study of Legislatures6 - Words as Data: Content Analysis in Legislative Studies7 - Debate and Deliberation in Legislatures8 - Interviews and Surveys in Legislative Research9 - The Experimental Study of Legislative Behavior10 - Candidate Selection: Implications and Challenges for Legislative Behavior11 - The Effect of Electoral Institutions on Legislative Behavior12 - Gender and Legislatures13 - Roles in Legislatures14 - Legislative Careers15 - Procedure and Rules in Legislatures16 - The Politics of Bicameralism17 - Committees18 - Political Parties and Legislators19 - Party Discipline20 - Legislative Party Switching21 - Legislative Institutions and Coalition Government22 - Institutional Foundations of Legislative Agenda Setting23 - Law Making24 - Legislatures and Public Finance25 - Legislatures, Lobbying and Interest Groups26 - Legislatures and Foreign Policy27 - Common Agencya Legislatures and Bureaucracies28 - Political Behaviour in the European Parliament29 - Sub-National Legislatures30 - The Study of Legislatures in Latin America31 - Legislatures in Central and Eastern Europe32 - Authoritarian Legislatures33 - Reluctant Democrats and their Legislatures

AUTORE

Shane Martin is Reader in Comparative Politics, University of Leicester. Thomas Saalfeld is Professor of Political Science at the University of Bamberg and the founding Director of the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences. Kaare W. Strøm is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199653010
• Collana: Oxford Handbooks
• Dimensioni: 249 x 50.5 x 181 mm Ø 1506 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 776