Where is the power? Students of politics have pondered this
question, and social scientists have scrutinized formal political
institutions and the distribution of power among agencies of the
government and the state. But we still lack a rich bank of data
measuring the power of specific governmental agencies, particularly
national legislatures. This book assesses the strength of the
national legislature of every country in the world with a
population of at least a half-million inhabitants. The Legislative
Powers Survey (LPS) is a list of thirty-two items that gauge the
legislature's sway over the executive, its institutional autonomy,
its authority in specific areas and its institutional capacity.
Data were gathered by means of a vast international survey of
experts, extensive study of secondary sources and painstaking
analysis of constitutions and other relevant documents. Individual
country chapters provide answers to each of the thirty-two survey
items, supplemented by expert commentary and relevant excerpts from
constitutions.
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