This book gathers the most influential authors on role research and legislative studies to examine the different roles that MPs are playing in modern-day legisl

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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

This book offers the first comprehensive, comparative and coherent perspective on parliamentary candidates in contemporary representative democracy. Based on th

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