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On Legislatures
On Legislatures looks at why people support their individual representatives but continue to criticise the legislative system at every opportunity. Although legislatures exist in every political system and are meant to represent the people, they are generally disparaged because they appear both unrepresentative and indecisive. Gerhard Loewenberg explains this puzzling contradiction by examining what representation means and what it takes for a large number of equally representative members to reach decisions. It also describes the methods for studying legislatures that have been developed in the social sciences in the last half century and shows their importance in democratic societies throughout the world. On Legislatures gets to the heart of the current disconnect between legislatures and the public they are supposed to represent.
Moved by Politics
In 1936, at the age of 7, Gerhard Loewenberg emigrated from Nazi Germany with his family to begin a new life in America. He spent his young years exploring New York City and American culture while anxiously following the news from war-torn Europe. A keen awareness of world affairs led him into a distinguished career in political science. In this memoir, he recounts 12 episodes in his personal and professional life. They reflect the academic world in the second half of the 20th century, describing the events, decisions, and twists of fate that landed him his first academic appointment at a women's liberal arts college, his research on the German parliament as a Fulbright scholar, his adaptation to the changing discipline of political science, and the route that led him to become a prominent member of the faculty of The University of Iowa, Dean of its College of Liberal Arts, and co-founder of the Legislative Studies Quarterly.
British and French Parliaments in Comparative Perspective
The representative assembly, or parliament, as it is most widely called, is at once an old, a ubiquitous, and a controversial political institution. In this century it has attracted the criticism of both disillusioned democrats and true believers in the superior representatives of mass movements or of charismatic leaders. Even among its supporters the institution is constantly the object of reform. This book deals with parliament (the generic term for what also may be known as legislature, congress, assembly, diet, or knesset), what it has been and is, what it does and should do, and what may become of it.In a wide-ranging and excellently organized introductory essay, Loewenberg defines the ...
Comparing Legislatures
This book focuses on the U.S. Congress, the British parliament, the German Bundestag and the Kenyan National Assembly. It analyzes how legislatures develop, how they are constituted, and what functions they perform. It also examines the recruitment of their members, their internal organization and decision-making processes, and their linkages to the surrounding political environment. Aimed at helping the political science or government student understand the principal varieties of representative assemblies and be able to identify characteristics common to them all. Originally published by Little, Brown and Company in 1979.
Handbook of Legislative Research
The Handbook of Legislative Research, a comprehensive summary of the results of research on nineteenth and twentieth-century legislatures, is itself a landmark in the evolution of legislative studies. Gathered here are surveys by leading scholars in the field, each providing inventory of an important subfield, an extensive bibliography, and a systematic assessment of what has been accomplished and what directions future research must take.
Legislatures in the Policy Process
Thi book will be of interest to specialists and students of politics and economic policy making.
Parliaments in the Modern World
A cross-national survey of how parliaments adapt to change
Party Personnel Strategies
Key party goals serve to advance a policy brand and maximize seats in the legislature. This book offers a theory of how political parties assign their elected members -- their personnel -- to specialized legislative committees to serve collective organizational goals, here known as party personnel strategies. Individual party members vary in their personal attributes, such as prior occupation, gender, and local experience. Parties seek to harness the attributes of their members by assigning them to committees where their expertise is relevant, and where they may enhance the party's policy brand. However, under some electoral systems, parties may need to trade-off the harnessing of expertise ...
