The Iberian Legislatures in Comparative Perspective
This comprehensive book analyses the development of the legislatures in the Iberian countries over the past 40 years, since democracy was introduced, to comparatively understand their role in these political systems and in sustaining their democratic systems.
Sharing many historical developments and institutional characteristics, Spain and Portugal also present crucial differences, notably Spains pure parliamentary system, a King as Head of State and a quasi-federal structure, and Portugals semi-presidential democracy. Starting with a historical and institutional contextualization of these two legislatures, the book examines the most important organizational and behavioural features of legislative life in Iberian legislatures in a comparative perspective. It also shows how new legislatures develop resilience capacity to support lasting democratic systems as fully fledged institutionalized bodies.
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of Spain and Portugal, legislative politics and parliamentarianism, and more broadly to European politics and comparative politics, journalists and practitioners.
Jorge M. Fernandes is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal. His work has appeared, among others, in Comparative Political Studies, European Journal of Political Research, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Party Politics. His research interests are representation, legislatures, political parties, electoral parties, and Portuguese politics. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University and at UC San Diego.
Cristina Leston-Bandeira is a Professor of Politics at the University of Leeds, UK. She has worked on parliaments for over 20 years and is a key scholar on the Portuguese Parliament. She is Co-Director of the Centre for Democratic Engagement and the Chair of the UK Study of Parliament Group. She is also co-editor of the journal Parliamentary Affairs and a Constitution Unit Fellow.
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Edited by Jorge M. Fernandes and Cristina Leston-Bandeira
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Names: Fernandes, Jorge, 1986 editor. | Leston-Bandeira, Cristina, editor.
Title: The Iberian legislatures in comparative perspective/edited by Jorge M. Fernandes and Cristina Leston-Bandeira.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2019. | Series: Library of legislative studies | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019003324| ISBN 9781138479678 (hardback) | ISBN 9781351065214 (web pdf) | ISBN 9781351065207 (epub) | ISBN 9781351065191 (mobipocket/kindle) | ISBN 9781351065221 (ebk) Subjects: LCSH: Portugal. Assembleia da Republica. | Spain. Cortes Generales. | Legislative powerPortugal. | Legislative powerSpain. | Parliamentary practicePortugal. | Parliamentary practiceSpain.
Classification: LCC JN8568 .I34 2019 | DDC 328.46dc23
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Elviro Aranda lvarez (PhD in law, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid 1996) is the author of 5 monographs and more than 60 articles and a co-author of collective works, as well as PI in two competitive public financing projects and a researcher in several others. He has been a national and international speaker at numerous conferences and an expert adviser in constitutional, parliamentary and electoral law. Aranda had several research stays in foreign universities. His research interests include parliamentary law, international cooperation and security and social rights, among others.
Mercedes Arajo is the Deputy Secretary General for Administrative Affairs of the Spanish parliament.
Ana Maria Belchior is an assistant professor, with aggregation, in the Department of Political Science and Public Policies at ISCTE-IUL (Instituto Universitrio de Lisboa) in Lisbon, and a researcher at CIES-IUL. She has been involved in research on several projects related to the themes of democracy and globalization, political participation, democratic representation, political congruence and electoral pledges and decision-making. She has published her findings in books and book chapters and in diverse national and international journals (e.g. Comparative Political Studies, International Political Science Review, Party Politics, Comparative European Politics, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, South European Society and Politics or The Journal of Legislative Studies).
Xavier Coller is a journalist and sociologist and holds a PhD in Sociology (Yale University). He has taught in several universities in Europe and the US and has been a visiting fellow at Warwick University (UK), University of California (Berkeley), Yale, Harvard, Princeton Georgetown, Universit de Montpellier 1 and LUISS. He is the Seventh Prince of Asturias Chair, Georgetown University (200507) and a full professor of sociology at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville, Spain). He has authored over hundred works on social theories, research methods, collective identities, political elites and complex organizations (parties, multinationals).
