Europe, European, Political Science, Public Affairs & Administration, Government, Public Affairs 

Parliaments widely had been expected to decline in significance in the later part of the twentieth century, but instead they have developed new and vital political roles and have innovated in their institutional structure - most recurrently in newly organised or invigorated parliamentary committees, not only in a few parliaments, but as a global phenomenon.

Even as newly democratic parliaments throughout the world experiment with more elaborate committee structures, those with older, highly developed committee systems are reaching for more varied and flexible alternatives. In short, parliamentary committees have emerged as vibrant and central institutions of democratic parliaments of today's world and have begun to define new and changing roles for themselves.
 

Parliaments had been expected to decline in significance at the end of the 20th century, but instead they have developed new and vital political roles and have innovated their institutional structure in parliamentary committees, not only in a few parliaments, but as a global phenomenon. - from Amzon 

Contents

Parliamentary committees - changing perspectives on changing institutions, BY Lawrence D. Longley, Roger H. Davidson....................................................P 1
Parliamentary committees in European democracies, BY Kaare Strom............P 21
Norwegian parliamentary committees - performance, structural change and external Relations, BY Hilmar Rommetvedt.............................................................P 60
Changing parliamentary committees in changing east-central Europe - parliamentary committees as central sites of policy making, BY Attila Agh.......P 85 Committees in the post-Communist Polish Sejm - structure, activity and members, BY David M. Olson et al.........................................................................P 101
US congressional committees - changing legislative workshops, Colton C. Campbell, Roger H. Davidson..................................................................................P 124 Nascent institutionalisation - committees in the British Parliament, BY Philip Norton..................................................................................................P 143 Political reform and the committee system in Israel - structural and functional adaptation BY Reuven Y. Hazan........................................................P 163 Committees in the Russian State Duma - continuity and change in comparative perspective, BY Moshe Haspel...............................................................P 188 The organisation and workings of committees in the Korean National Assembly, BY Chan Wook Park.....................................................................................P 206 parliamentary committees - a global perspective, BY Malcolm Shaw............P 225