Comparative Legislatures and Legislative Processes

Analyzes the structures, procedures, and norms governing the legislature: (i.e. making laws, elections, representation, and relations with other branches of government). It focuses on the functions and role of legislatures in general and covers legislatures of select major and non-major states in the international system and the characteristics which make them efficient and influential in the cases of some, or render them ineffective or marginal in the cases of others.