How much legislating in a legislature? Democratisation, de-democratisation and beyond

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Notes

1 Irina Khmelko, Rick Stapenhurst, and Michael L. Mezey (eds.) Legislative Decline in the 21st Century. A Comparative Perspective (Routledge 2020).

2 E.g. Rose-Liza Eisma-Osorio and others (eds.) Parliaments in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Between Crisis Management, Civil Rights and Proportionality. Observations from Asia and the Pacific (Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and University of Cebu School of Law 2021) <https://www.kas.de/en/web/rspa/single-title/-/content/parliaments-in-the-covid-19-pandemic-between-crisis-management-civil-rights-and-proportionality#> accessed 6 June 2023; Sven T. Siefken and others, ‘Parlamente in der Pandemie: Erste Erkenntnisse aus einem international vergleichenden Forschungsvorhaben’ (2021) 52 Zeitschrift Für Parlamentsfragen 878–894; Matthias C. Kettemann, and Konrad Lachmayer (eds.) Pandemocracy in Europe. Power, Parliaments and People in Times of COVID-19 (Bloomsbury Publishing 2022).

3 E.g. Frederick Stapenhurst and others, Enhanced Parliamentary Oversight: Promoting Good Governance in Smaller States (Routledge 2023); Michail Chiru, ‘The Resilience of Parliamentary Oversight During the COVID-19 Pandemic’ (2024) 47 West European Politics 408–25.

4 E.g. Patricia Calca, Executive-Legislative Relations in Parliamentary Systems: Policy-Making and Legislative Processes (Palgrave Macmillan 2022).

5 E.g. Denis Kibirige Kawooya, ‘Act of Parliament: The Role of Parliament in the Legislative Process: A Commonwealth Perspective’ (2010) 12 European Journal of Law Reform 32–57.

6 E.g. Rainer Eising and Florian Spohr, ‘The More, the Merrier? Interest Groups and Legislative Change in the Public Hearings of the German Parliamentary Committees’ (2017) 26 German Politics 314–33; Marc Geddes, ‘Committee Hearings of the UK Parliament: Who gives Evidence and does this Matter?’ (2018) 71 Parliamentary Affairs 283–304; Sven T. Siefken and Hilmar Rommetvedt (eds.) Parliamentary Committees in the Policy Process (Routledge 2022).

7 Thomas Bräuninger, Marc Debus, and Fabian Wüst, ‘Governments, Parliaments and Legislative Activity’ (2017) 5 Political Science Research and Methods 529–54.

8 Philip Norton, ’Parliament and Policy in Britain: The House of Commons as a Policy Influencer’ in Philip Norton (eds.) Legislatures (Oxford University Press 1990) 177–80.

9 Sven Siefken and Hilmar Rommetvedt, ‘A Black Box That Deserves More Light: Comparative Findings on Parliamentary Committees in the Policy Process’ in Siefken and Rommetvedt (eds.) (n 6) 9–37.

10 Herbert Döring, ‘Parliamentary Agenda Control and Legislative Outcomes in Western Europe’ (2001) 26 LSQ 145–65.

11 Meg Russell and Daniel Gover, Legislation at Westminster: Parliamentary Actors and Influence in the Making of British Law (Oxford University Press 2017).

12 Sebastian Saiegh, ‘Lawmaking’ in Martin Shane, Thomas Saalfeld, and Kaare W. Strøm (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies (Oxford University Press 2014) 482.

13 Khmelko, Stapenhurst, and Mezey (n 1).

14 Jelle J. But, Demy K. Jongkind, and Wim J. M. Voermans, ‘Direct Democracy in the Constitution: Good or Bad for Democracy?’ (2023) 11 Theory and Practice of Legislation 52–82.

15 Samuel Oni and Moyosoluwa Dele-Dada, ‘Legislative Oversight and Executive Aggrandisement in the Nigeria’s COVID-19 Emergency Governance’ (2022) 10 Theory and Practice of Legislation 186–202.

16 Thomas Bustamante and Emílio Peluso Neder Meyer, ‘Legislative Resistance to Illiberalism in a System of Coalitional Presidentialism: Will it Work in Brazil?’ (2021) 9 Theory and Practice of Legislation 342–62.

17 Khmelko, Stapenhurst, and Mezey (n 1).

18 John Ishiyama, ‘Has Legislative Power Declined Globally?’ (2022) The Journal of Legislative Studies 1–22 <doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2022.2103288> accessed 12 March 2024.