The Handbook of National Legislatures Hardback: A Global Survey - Hardcover

Fish; Kroenig

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521514665 ISBN 13: 9780521514668

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

This book assesses the strength of the national legislature of countries with a population of at least a half-million inhabitants, using data generated by means of a vast international survey of experts, extensive study of secondary sources and thorough analysis of constitutions and other relevant documents.

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'A groundbreaking new study.' Foreign Policy

'This is a truly useful, informative work, and one that provides a wealth of legislative information to other scholars. Since the essays are relatively brief, the collection will also appeal to the general reader. Summing up: highly recommended.' Choice

Review of the hardback: 'This is an impressive undertaking, genuinely novel in its conception and remarkably broad in scope. The strength of legislatures is a critical marker of the performance of representative institutions and of democracy more generally. Until Fish and Kroenig, there was no metric of legislative strength so comprehensive in the scope of powers and the range of countries considered.' John Carey, Dartmouth College

Review of the hardback: 'This is a unique volume of enormous importance in its contribution to the creation of rich and truly comparative data on the formal and informal power of national legislatures across the world. The detailed and disaggregated information on no less than 32 indicators of legislative power, capacity, and capabilities provide a wealth of possibilities for future research that until now has been impossible. This book is destined to become a chief source for many important contributions in the future.' Staffan I. Lindberg, University of Florida

Review of the hardback: 'The Handbook of National Legislatures by M. Steven Fish and Matthew Kroenig is a signal achievement. This compilation of basic information about 32 distinct features of the power and capacity of the national legislatures of 158 countries is based on careful study of the formal constitutional and legal rules as well as a comprehensive survey of country experts, who assessed how the powers are used in practice. The result is a valuable cross-national index of parliamentary powers and an authoritative reference guide to each of the world's major national legislatures.' Thomas F. Remington, Emory University

Review of the hardback: 'The substantial amount of constitutional data and analysis so assiduously collected by the authors provides a valuable overview of their chosen subject for students of political science ...' Reference Reviews

Biografía del autor

M. Steven Fish is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Matthew Kroenig is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521514665
• ISBN 13: 9780521514668
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 808