Comparing and Classifying Legislatures

David Arter holds the First Chair of Politics at the University of Aberdeen

• 1. On Comparing and Classifying Legislatures 2. Legislatures in Presidential Systems: The Latin American Case 3. Does the Folketing Matter? The Legislative Impact of the Danish Parliament 4. The Baltic Parliaments: Legislative Performance in View of EU Accession 5. The Exceptional Assembly? The US Congress in Comparative Perspective 6. On Evaluating the Legislative Worth of the Israeli Knesset 7. Characterising the Italian Parliament. Legislative Change in Longitudinal Perspective 8. Initiatives for Change: Assessing Legislative Performance in Southern Africa 9. Not as Weak as Widely Perceived? The Legislative Impact of the French National Assembly during the Fifth Republic 10. The Legislative Output of the Finnish Eduskunta since the Second World War Conclusions