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This comprehensive Handbook takes a multidisciplinary approach to
the study of parliaments, offering novel insights into the key
aspects of legislatures, legislative institutions and legislative
politics. Connecting rich and diverse fields of inquiry, it
illuminates how the study of parliaments has shaped a wider
understanding surrounding politics and society over the past
decades. Through 26 thematic chapters, expert contributors analyse
parliamentary institutions from various disciplinary perspectives
(history, law, political science, political economy, sociology and
anthropology). A wide range of approaches is covered, including the
sociological study of members of parliaments, gender studies and
the mathematical conceptualisation of legislatures. Exploring the
history of parliament, the concepts and theories of
parliamentarism, constitutional law, and the linkages between
parliaments and the administrative state or with populism, this
incisive Handbook provides a panoramic view of this institution.
Chapters also map the main trends, patterns of developments and
controversies related to parliaments, assessing the strengths and
weaknesses of current research and identifying a range of promising
avenues for further study. Drawing together international and
comparative approaches, the Handbook of Parliamentary Studies will
be a critical resource for academics and students of parliamentary
politics, political science, political economy, public law and
political history. It also provides a vital foundation for
researchers of legislative and political institutions.
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 number of different
parliamentary settings. The propensity of parliamentarians to ask
questions indicates that the interrogatories are an important tool
for measuring an individual legislator's job. Ultimately, how a
parliamentarian chooses to use the questioning tool provides a
unique insight into legislator behaviour and role orientation. Many
of the chapters in this volume provide new empirical measures of
legislator activity and use this data to provide new tests of
leading theories of legislator behaviour. At an institutional
level, questions provide an important source of information for the
chamber and are a critical tool of government oversight - as many
of the chapters in the volume indicate. Evidence of the impact of
questions on executive and bureaucratic oversight challenges
conventional views of parliaments as weak and ineffective parts of
the political process. This book was published as a special issue
of the Journal of Legislative Studies.
This book gathers the most influential authors on role research and
legislative studies to examine the different roles that MPs are
playing in modern-day legislatures. It provides a comprehensive and
critical overview of current research on legislative roles,
summarises previous research, presents a large variety of
methodological approaches and also explores the latest developing
approaches to role theory. The concept of political roles has
become increasingly relevant for understanding contemporary
political systems. Parliamentary, legislative and representative
roles are professional roles that provide a way of connecting the
individual legislator to their institution that can also explain a
legislator's attitude and behaviour. Drawing upon case studies with
as much as 40 years of data that include Germany, the Netherlands,
UK, Austria, Hungary, Australia, New Zealand and the European
Parliament, this book examines the link between representative
roles, different institutional settings and parliamentary
behaviour. It argues that the roles MPs play depend of who they
think they should represent; between their voters, their party, the
people of their country and also themselves, conflicts of loyalty
can occur. This book provides a framework to analyse MPs' choices
by searching both the reasons for their views about representation,
and the consequences of those views in parliament. Parliamentary
Roles in Modern Legislatures will be of strong interest to students
and scholars of government, legislative studies, political parties,
comparative politics, political sociology and deliberative
democracy.
This book gathers the most influential authors on role research and
legislative studies to examine the different roles that MPs are
playing in modern-day legislatures. It provides a comprehensive and
critical overview of current research on legislative roles,
summarises previous research, presents a large variety of
methodological approaches and also explores the latest developing
approaches to role theory. The concept of political roles has
become increasingly relevant for understanding contemporary
political systems. Parliamentary, legislative and representative
roles are professional roles that provide a way of connecting the
individual legislator to their institution that can also explain a
legislator's attitude and behaviour. Drawing upon case studies with
as much as 40 years of data that include Germany, the Netherlands,
UK, Austria, Hungary, Australia, New Zealand and the European
Parliament, this book examines the link between representative
roles, different institutional settings and parliamentary
behaviour. It argues that the roles MPs play depend of who they
think they should represent; between their voters, their party, the
people of their country and also themselves, conflicts of loyalty
can occur. This book provides a framework to analyse MPs' choices
by searching both the reasons for their views about representation,
and the consequences of those views in parliament. Parliamentary
Roles in Modern Legislatures will be of strong interest to students
and scholars of government, legislative studies, political parties,
comparative politics, political sociology and deliberative
democracy.
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 number of different
parliamentary settings. The propensity of parliamentarians to ask
questions indicates that the interrogatories are an important tool
for measuring an individual legislator's job. Ultimately, how a
parliamentarian chooses to use the questioning tool provides a
unique insight into legislator behaviour and role orientation. Many
of the chapters in this volume provide new empirical measures of
legislator activity and use this data to provide new tests of
leading theories of legislator behaviour. At an institutional
level, questions provide an important source of information for the
chamber and are a critical tool of government oversight - as many
of the chapters in the volume indicate. Evidence of the impact of
questions on executive and bureaucratic oversight challenges
conventional views of parliaments as weak and ineffective parts of
the political process. This book was published as a special issue
of the Journal of Legislative Studies.
This book explores how the European Union has changed the French
Parliament since 1992. It supports the view that the institutional
adaptation of both assemblies to European affairs is largely
superficial as it lacks a genuine involvement from members of
parliament. Nevertheless, the role of backbenchers has changed in
the context of European integration. New ways of behaving, thinking
and representing have emerged. From specialized representatives to
constituency members, from presidential aspirants to Eurosceptic
sovereigntists, French national parliamentarians have adapted
differently to the EU. Far beyond the sole scrutiny of European
draft legislation, the book provides a comprehensive map of this
changing environment. It supports the view that the process has
been driven by the search for day-to-day emotional gratifications
rather than utilitarian strategies.
This book explores how the European Union has changed the French
Parliament since 1992. It supports the view that the institutional
adaptation of both assemblies to European affairs is largely
superficial as it lacks a genuine involvement from members of
parliament. Nevertheless, the role of backbenchers has changed in
the context of European integration. New ways of behaving, thinking
and representing have emerged. From specialized representatives to
constituency members, from presidential aspirants to Eurosceptic
sovereigntists, French national parliamentarians have adapted
differently to the EU. Far beyond the sole scrutiny of European
draft legislation, the book provides a comprehensive map of this
changing environment. It supports the view that the process has
been driven by the search for day-to-day emotional gratifications
rather than utilitarian strategies.
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