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Legislatures are political bodies essential to democracy and the rule of law. They present social scientists with numerous intriguing puzzles, with far-reaching implications for our understanding of political institutions. Why, and how, have these ancient assemblies, established in pre-democratic times, survived the transition to mass democracies? How have they adapted? How do they structure such processes as budgeting, legislation, and executive oversight? How do their members get selected, and what consequences flow from differences in these rules? What roles do committees and political parties play in contemporary legislatures? What functions do legislatures perform in autocratic, semi-democratic or recently democratized societies? What explains the similarities and differences in legislative rules, powers and recruitment? What are the policy and other consequences of variation in how legislatures are organized and function?

The 33 chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies, written by 47 of the most distinguished legislative scholars, provide a comprehensive and up-to-date description and assessment of the state of the art in legislative studies. Key themes explored include theoretical paradigms and methodological approaches to the study of legislatures, representation and legislative careers, internal organization, the role of parties within legislatures and the role of legislatures in policy making and accountability. The Handbook also explores the emergence of parliaments in historical and contemporary contexts, including new democracies and trans-national institutions.

Readership : Students and scholars of political science, political institutions, political parties, and legislative studies.

Shane Martin is Reader in Comparative Politics, University of Leicester.

Thomas Saalfeld is Professor of Political Science at the University of Bamberg and the founding Director of the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences.

Kaare W. Strøm is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego.

1. Shane Martin, Thomas Saalfeld and Kaare W. Strøm: Introduction
Part I: Theories
2. Daniel Diermeier: Formal Models of Legislatures
3. Heinrich Best and Lars Vogel: The Sociology of Legislatures and Legislators
4. Amie Kreppel: Typologies and Classifications
Part II: Methods
5. Royce Carroll and Keith Poole: Roll Call Analysis and the Study of Legislatures
6. Jonathan B. Slapin and Sven-Oliver Proksch: Words as Data: Content Analysis in Legislative Studies
7. André Bächtiger: Debate and Deliberation in Legislatures
8. Stefanie Bailer: Interviews and Surveys in Legislative Research
9. James N. Druckman, Thomas J. Leeper and Kevin J. Mullinix: The Experimental Study of Legislative Behavior
Part III: Representation and Legislative Careers
10. Reuven Hazan: Candidate Selection: Implications and Challenges for Legislative Behavior
11. Audrey André, Sam Depauw and Matthew S. Shugart: The Effect of Electoral Institutions on Legislative Behavior
12. Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson: Gender and Legislatures
13. Rudy B. Andeweg: Roles in Legislatures
14. Thad Kousser and Scott A. MacKenzie: Legislative Careers
Part IV: Organisation and Rules
15. Wolfgang C. Müller and Ulrich Sieberer: Procedure and Rules in Legislatures
16. William B. Heller and Diana M. Branduse: The Politics of Bicameralism
17. Shane Martin: Committees
Part V: Parties in the Legislature
18. Thomas Saalfeld and Kaare W. Strøm: Political Parties and Legislators
19. Christopher Kam: Party Discipline
20. Carol Mershon: Legislative Party Switching
21. Lanny W. Martin and Georg Vanberg: Legislative Institutions and Coalition Government
Part VI: Policy Making and Oversight
22. Bjørn-Erik Rasch: Institutional Foundations of Legislative Agenda Setting
23. Sebastian M. Saiegh: Law Making
24. Joachim Wehner: Legislatures and Public Finance
25. Anne Skorkjær Binderkrantz: Legislatures, Lobbying and Interest Groups
26. Tapio Raunio: Legislatures and Foreign Policy
27. Common Agencya Legislatures and Bureaucracies
Part VII: Expanding the Scope of Legislative Analysis
28. Simon Hix and Bjørn Høyland: Political Behaviour in the European Parliament
29. William Downs: Sub-National Legislatures
30. Brian F. Crisp and Constanza F. Schibber: The Study of Legislatures in Latin America
31. Josephine T. Andrews: Legislatures in Central and Eastern Europe
32. Paul Schuler and Edmund J. Malesky: Authoritarian Legislatures
33. Gary W. Cox: Reluctant Democrats and their Legislatures
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