TY - GEN AU - Kiewiet,D.Roderick AU - Squire,Peverill AU - Loewenberg,Gerhard TI - Legislatures: comparative perspectives on representative assemblies SN - 0472067907 (paper) AV - JF511 .L44 2005 PY - 2002///, 2005 CY - Ann Arbor PB - University of Michigan Press KW - Karşılaştırmalı yönetim KW - Legislative bodies KW - Yasama organları KW - Comparative government N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1.The implications of the study of the U.S. Congress for comparative legislative research -- 2.Legislative careers: why and how we should study them -- 3.Recruitment and retention in U.S. legislatures -- 4.Recruitment and retention in Western European parliaments -- 5.Recruitment and retention of legislators in Brazil -- 6.Electoral systems and the representation of minority interests in legislatures -- 7.The study of Japan's medium-sized district system -- 8.Divided parties, divided government -- 9.Positive theories of congressional parties -- 10. On the effects of legislative rules -- 11.Parliamentary floor voting procedures and agenda setting in Europe -- 12.Transitional governance in the United States: lessons from the First Federal Congress -- 13.Politicians, bureaucrats, and interest groups in Japan: transformation from one-party predominance or not? -- 14.Change is short but continuity is long: policy influence of the National Assembly in newly democratized Korea -- 15.Legislative autonomy in new regimes: the Czech and Polish cases -- 16.Assessing comparative legislative research ER -