The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies

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