TY - BOOK ID - 80829030 TI - The handbook of national legislatures : a global survey. AU - Fish, Steven AU - Kroenig, Matthew PY - 2009 SN - 9780511575655 9780521514668 9781107602472 9780511508257 0511508255 0521514665 1316087247 0511575653 0511504489 0511508913 0511506627 1107602475 PB - Cambridge Cambridge university press DB - UniCat KW - BPB0907 KW - Parlement KW - parlaments KW - Parlament KW - Parlamento KW - parlament KW - parliament KW - kansanedustuslaitos KW - κοινοβούλιο KW - assembleia KW - парламент KW - parlement KW - parlamentas KW - parlamento KW - rigsdag KW - собрание KW - zastupitelský sbor KW - Országgyűlés KW - Legislative bodies KW - Bicameralism KW - Legislatures KW - Parliaments KW - Unicameral legislatures KW - Constitutional law KW - Estates (Social orders) KW - Representative government and representation KW - parlaimint KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80829030 AB - Where is the power? Students of politics have pondered this question, and social scientists have scrutinized formal political institutions and the distribution of power among agencies of the government and the state. But we still lack a rich bank of data measuring the power of specific governmental agencies, particularly national legislatures. This book assesses the strength of the national legislature of every country in the world with a population of at least a half-million inhabitants. The Legislative Powers Survey (LPS) is a list of thirty-two items that gauge the legislature's sway over the executive, its institutional autonomy, its authority in specific areas and its institutional capacity. Data were gathered by means of a vast international survey of experts, extensive study of secondary sources and painstaking analysis of constitutions and other relevant documents. Individual country chapters provide answers to each of the thirty-two survey items, supplemented by expert commentary and relevant excerpts from constitutions. ER -