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CHAPTER FIFTEEN: LEGISLATURES

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a. Is the role of legislatures declining, evolving or both?

b. 'A legislature is known by the committees it keeps.' Discuss.

c. Are bicameral legislatures an affront to democracy?

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Hague & Harrop, 2007 edn, ch.15.

R. Corbett, F. Jacobs and M. Shackleton, The European Parliament.

L. Dodd and B. Oppenheimer, eds, Congress Reconsidered

L. Longley and R. Davidson, eds, The New Roles of Parliamentary Committees

P. Norton, ed., Legislatures

P. Norton, ed., Parliaments in Western Europe

D. Olson, Legislative Institutions: A Comparative View

D. Olson and P. Norton, eds, The New Parliaments of Central and Eastern Europe

S. Patterson and A. Mughan, eds, Senates: Bicameralism in the Contemporary

World

G. Tsebelis and J. Money, Bicameralism