Bøger af Gerhard Loewenberg

The representative assembly, or parliament, as it is most widely called, is at once an old, a ubiquitous, and a controversial political institution

The representative assembly, or parliament, as it is most widely called, is at once an old, a ubiquitous, and a controversial political institution. This book deals with parliament (the generic term for what also may be known as legislature, diet, or knesset), what it has been and is, what it does and should do, and what may become of it.

Distinguished scholars detail the extent to which the US Congress has influenced democractic legislatures around the world, and the myriad factors involved in the diffusion of influence. Includes the governments of Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, the European Parliament, plus new democracies in Latin America and Eastern Europe.