Legislatures and Legislators

Contents: Legislatures: The Complexity of Legislatures: Party systems and government stability, Michael Taylor and V.M. Herman; The durability of coalition governments in parliamentary democracies, Paul Warwick; Modes of executive-legislative relations: Great Britain, France and West Germany, Anthony King. Institutionalization: The institutionalization of the US House of Representatives, Nelson W. Polsby; The learning of legislative norms, Herbert B. Asher; A rational choice perspective on congressional norms, Barry R. Weingast; Rules of the game in Britain: can the politicians be trusted?, Donald D. Searing. Legislators and Legislation: Who makes our laws? The legislative effectiveness of members of the US Congress, Stephen Frantzich; The fate of policy analysis in Congressional decision making: 3 types of use in committees, David Whiteman; Institutional; rules and legislative outcomes in the Italian parliament, Guiseppe di Palma; The institutional foundations of committee power, Kenneth A. Shepsle and Barry R. Weingast; Restrictive legislative procedures in France and the United States, John D. Huber; Exploring a new role in policy making: the British House of Commons in the 1970s, John E. Schwarz. Legislators: The Independence of Legislators: Models of legislative voting, John W. Kingdon; Party voting in the United States Congress, Samuel C. Patterson and Gregory A. Caldeira; 'The lady's not for turning' but what about the rest? Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party 1979-89, Philip Norton. Legislators as Representatives: The role of the representative; some empirical observations on the theory of Edmund Burke, Heinz Eulau, John C. Wahlke, William Buchanan and Leroy C. Ferguson; Constituency influence in Congress, Warren E. Miller and Donald E. Stokes; 'Representatives' perceptions of constituency opinion, Ronald D. Hedlund and H. Paul Friesema; The role of the good constituency member and the practice of representation in Great Britain, Donald D. Searin