Comparative Legislative Systems. A Reader in Theory and Research

Hardback. First Edition. Sunned spine to cloth. Couple of small tears to edge of D/J. This book brings together much of the best recent research on legislative behaviour in leading American journals and books as well as three original essays and three translations from European publications. Organized in sections corresponding to the categories of structural-functional analysis, the volume complements the approach of contemporary studies in both American and comparative politics. Co-authored by the editors, the introduction presents a systematic overview of methodology, research trends in legislative behaviour, and types of legislative systems. In an original essay written for the section on inputs into the legislative system, Professor Hirsch synthesizes and re-evaluates comparative data on the socialization of state legislators. Addressing themselves to processes of environmental, institutional, and functional change, the editors appraise in the epilogue prospects for legislative reform. 470 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).…