Do gender quota laws-policies that mandate women's inclusion on parties' candidate slates-
affect policy outcomes? Making Gender Salient tackles this crucial question by offering a …

In this article, we investigate whether and how political parties function as gate-keepers in
determining gender differentiations in committee appointments by using the Italian …

This article presents the findings of an extensive multi‐method empirical study that explored
the relationship between temporary legislation, better regulation, and experimentalist …

This book is unique in analysing the new Scottish Parliament from a systematically
comparative perspective. Its basic premise is that since devolution in 1999 Scotland can be …

In coalition governments, parties invest much effort to manage delegation costs to individual
ministers. In this article, we examine an intra-executive mechanism for managing delegation …

The Conclusion broadens the notion of 'legislative performance'from various measures of
legislative output to an analysis of the performance of legislatures in the totality of the …

BICAMERALISM occupies a paradoxical position in the pantheon of political institutions. On
one hand, it attracts analysis because it holds a special place among constitutional …

Parliaments or legislatures are the keystone of democratic governance and they are critical
in securing government accountability. This book presents a comparative analysis of the role …

Die Macht der Parlamente ist ein paradoxes Phänomen: Wo Volksvertretungen an einer
Stelle Potential gewinnen, verlieren sie es oft zugleich an einer anderen. Das jüngst …

This article answers the question to what extent authoritarian parliaments perform a
legislative function. The analysis focuses on different institutional forms of power sharing …