The Impact of Legislaturesbrings together key articles and path-breaking scholarship published in TheJournal of Legislative Studiesduring its first 25 years of publication, enabling the reader to make sense of the impact of the legislature 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 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. Reflecting the growing body of research in the field of legislative studies, carried byThe Journal of Legislative Studiessince its inception in 1995, The Impact of Legislaturesis essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the impact of legislatures in the world today. | The Impact Of Legislatures by Philip Norton, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters