Forthcoming Legislative Politics Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Inventive Politicians and Ethnic Ascent in American Politics

   The Uphill Elections of Italians and Mexicans to the U.S. Congress

   By Miriam Jiménez

   Series: Routledge Research in American Politics and Governance

   This innovative book investigates the process through which ethnic minorities penetrate into higher echelons of political power: specifically, how they succeed in getting elected to the U.S. Congress. Analysts today see ethnic politicians largely in relation to their collectivities, but by actually...

   To Be Published August 12th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Government and Politics of Lebanon

   By Imad Salamey

   Aiming to contribute to the reader’s greater understanding of Lebanese government and politics, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the origin, development, and institutionalization of sectarian consociationalism in Lebanon. A recurrent proposition advanced in this book is that...

   To Be Published September 19th 2013 by Routledge
3. Parliamentary Representation in France

   Edited by Olivier Costa

   Series: Library of Legislative Studies

   Despite real improvements since the beginning of the last decade, legislative studies are still underdeveloped in France, compared to other modern democracies. This weakness is linked to the characteristics of the political system itself: the Constitution of 1958 has created a semi-presidential...

   To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. Parliamentary Elites in Central and Eastern Europe

   Recruitment and Representation

   Edited by Elena Semenova, Michael Edinger, Heinrich Best

   Series: Routledge Research on Social and Political Elites

   Legislators are entrusted with key parliamentary functions and are important figures in the decision-making process. Their behaviour as political elites is as much responsible for the failures and successes of the new democracies as their institutional designs and constitutional reforms. This...

   To Be Published November 29th 2013 by Routledge
5. Legislative Co-decision in the European Union

   Experience over Twenty Years and Implications

   Edited by Anne Rasmussen, Charlotte Burns, Christine Reh

   Series: Journal of European Public Policy Special Issues as Books

   This volume takes stock of twenty years of practising and studying co-decision in the European Union (EU) and examines the procedure’s long-term implications for the EU’s institutions, politics and policies. The introduction of co-legislation between the Council of Ministers and the European...

   To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. Gender, Race, and Office Holding in the United States

   Representation at the Intersections

   By Becki S. Scola

   Series: Routledge Research in American Politics and Governance

   Over the past several decades, the number of women elected to higher office in the United States has grown substantially. However, when the electoral gains of women are considered on a state-by-state basis, there are observable variations in the rate by state at which women are elected to state...

   To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
7. The Politics of Legalism

   Edited by John Barnes, Thomas Burke, Malcolm Feeley

   Series: Law, Courts and Politics

   Using the work of Robert A. Kagan’s intellectual contribution on the intensification of law, leading authorities in the study of the politics of regulation and litigation examine the consequences of the expansion and intensification of law, both in the United States and the rest of the world....

   To Be Published January 31st 2014 by Routledge