The Impact of Legislatures : A Quarter-Century of The Journal of Legislative Studies

Abstract

The Impact of Legislatures brings together key articles and path-breaking scholarship published in The Journal of Legislative Studies during its first 25 years of publication, enabling the reader to make sense of the impact of legislatures in the modern world.

Encompassing theory, comparative analysis, and county-based empirical studies, the volume examines the impact of legislatures as the key representative institutions of nations, addressing their relationships both to government and to the people. Legislatures are ubiquitous. They provide legitimacy to measures of public policy and to government. As such, they are key to how a nation is governed. But they do much more than confer legitimacy. They are generally multi-functional and functionally adaptable bodies, and are an essential link between citizen and government. However, scholarship on them has not been extensive and has often been descriptive and country- specific, limiting the capacity to make sense of them as a particular species of institution. The chapters in this volume reflect scholarship that helps the reader appreciate the significance of the place and consequences of legislatures, examining not only the relationship between the legislature and the executive, but also the oft-neglected relationship between legislatures and the people.

Citation

Norton, P. (Ed.). (2020). The Impact of Legislatures : A Quarter-Century of The Journal of Legislative Studies. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

• Book Type: Edited Book
• Acceptance Date: Mar 1, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Sep 10, 2020
• Publication Date: Jul 15, 2020
• Deposit Date: Apr 1, 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• ISBN: 9780367471446
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/3547105
• Publisher URL: https://www.routledge.com/The-Impact-of-Legislatures-A-Quarter-Century-of-The-Journal-of-Legislative/Norton/p/book/9780367471446