This comprehensive cross-national account of organizational features and procedural rules of parliaments in Western Europe as they were typically in operating during the 1980s serves not only as a reference compendium, but also gives in Part I an exposition of the main tenets of contemporary 'institutional theory' in legislative studies.
It then proceeds in Parts II to IV to map institutional structures and procedural rules cross-nationally. Here the focus will be on devices that, on the one hand, favour majoritarian decision making and, on the other, give protection to the rights of minority parties and individual deputies, both at the government-opposition and the cross-party level.Im Mittelpunkt dieses Sammelbandes steht ein Vergleich der Entscheidungsverfahren der Parlamente in den europäischen Demokratien. Aus den verschiedenen Ländern berichten international anerkannte Experten.
It then proceeds in Parts II to IV to map institutional structures and procedural rules cross-nationally. Here the focus will be on devices that, on the one hand, favour majoritarian decision making and, on the other, give protection to the rights of minority parties and individual deputies, both at the government-opposition and the cross-party level.Im Mittelpunkt dieses Sammelbandes steht ein Vergleich der Entscheidungsverfahren der Parlamente in den europäischen Demokratien. Aus den verschiedenen Ländern berichten international anerkannte Experten.