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1. Legislatures of Small States

   A Comparative Study

   Edited by Nicholas Baldwin

   Series: 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. Though the physical nature and environment of states is a neglected...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Roles and Function of Parliamentary Questions

   Edited by Shane Martin, Olivier Rozenberg

   Series: Library of Legislative Studies

   Parliamentary questions are a feature of almost all national legislatures. Despite this, we know very little about how questions are used by MPs and what impact questions have on controlling the government. This volume advances our theoretical and empirical knowledge of the use of questioning in a...

   Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
3. Cohesion and Discipline in Legislatures

   Edited by Reuven Y. Hazan

   Series: Library 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. However, legislative studies scholars have good reason to cease treating parties as monolithic, unitary actors, for they evidently are not. The...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
4. Post-Communist Parliaments

   Change and Stability in the Second Decade

   Edited by David M. Olson, Gabriella Ilonszki

   Series: Library of Legislative Studies

   At the end of the "founding" or initial decade, the new parliaments of post-Communist Europe had developed two distinct types: democratic and presidentially-dominated. Whilst in the early years, they had been characterised as "parliaments in adolescence," they have - through the second decade -...

   Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
5. Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament

   Edited by Shirin M. Rai

   Series: Library of Legislative Studies

   Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament breaks new ground in the study of legislatures. It combines mainstream historical and social science approaches with cultural theory to consider how parliamentary ritual is constructed through ceremony, space and socialisation. The focus is on the...

   Published February 17th 2011 by Routledge
6. The People's Congresses and Governance in China

   Toward a Network Mode of Governance

   By Ming Xia

   Series: Library of Legislative Studies

   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...

   Published February 9th 2011 by Routledge
7. The Internet and Parliamentary Democracy in Europe

   A Comparative Study of the Ethics of Political Communication in the Digital Age

   Edited by Xiudian Dai, Philip Norton

   Series: Library of Legislative Studies

   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...

   Published June 30th 2010 by Routledge
8. Comparing and Classifying Legislatures

   Edited by David Arter

   Series: Library of Legislative Studies

   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 ...

   Published October 12th 2009 by Routledge
9. Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Parliaments

   The Initial Decade

   Edited by Philip Norton, David M. Olson

   Series: Library of Legislative Studies

   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...

   Published February 19th 2009 by Routledge
10. Parliamentary Opposition in Old and New Democracies

    Edited by Ludger Helms

    Series: Library 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. Issues of political opposition, and of parliamentary opposition in...

    Published October 14th 2008 by Routledge