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Hanna Bäck

Professor | Meriterad lärare

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Legislatures and legislative behaviour

Författare

  • Hanna Bäck
  • Marc Debus

Summary, in English

Legislatures are a key institution in modern political systems. They control the executive: in parliamentary systems, they elect the government, and in presidential systems, they often approve the members of the cabinet who were appointed by the president. Moreover, legislatures and their committees are the main bodies in a political system in which new policies - in the form of law proposals - are discussed, designed and decided upon. In this chapter, we provide an overview of the current research on the role of legislatures in modern democracies, focusing mainly on legislative behaviour. Starting from the principal-agent framework, we present the main findings on legislative behaviour by focusing on the analysis of legislative voting and legislative speech. Lastly, we discuss possible avenues for future research on legislatures and legislative behaviour.

Avdelning/ar

  • Statsvetenskapliga institutionen
  • LU profilområde: Naturlig och artificiell kognition

Publiceringsår

2024-10-22

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

248-262

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Handbook of Comparative Political Institutions

Dokumenttyp

Del av eller Kapitel i bok

Förlag

Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

Ämne

  • Political Science (excluding Peace and Conflict Studies)
  • Law

Nyckelord

  • Legislative behaviour
  • Legislative speech
  • Legislatures
  • Principal-agent framework

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 9781803929095
  • ISBN: 9781803929088