Specific Improvement of the Korean Legislative System through the Study of American Legislative Studies

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-84
Author(s):  
changseok Park
Keyword(s):  
Legislative Studies

Integrating Voting Theory and Roll Call Analysis: A Framework

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua D. Clinton ◽  
Adam Meirowitz
Keyword(s):  
Ideal Point ◽  
Testing Procedure ◽  
Formal Modeling ◽  
Legislative Politics ◽  
Federal Aid ◽  
Voting Theory ◽  
Roll Call ◽  
Legislative Studies ◽  
Point Estimates ◽  
Hypothesis Testing Procedure

Scholars of legislative studies typically use ideal point estimates from scaling procedures to test theories of legislative politics. We contend that theory and methods may be better integrated by directly incorporating maintained and to be tested hypotheses in the statistical model used to estimate legislator preferences. In this view of theory and estimation, formal modeling (1) provides auxiliary assumptions that serve as constraints in the estimation process, and (2) generates testable predictions. The estimation and hypothesis testing procedure uses roll call data to evaluate the validity of theoretically derived to be tested hypotheses in a world where maintained hypotheses are presumed true. We articulate the approach using the language of statistical inference (both frequentist and Bayesian). The approach is demonstrated in analyses of the well-studied Powell amendment to the federal aid-to-education bill in the 84th House and the Compromise of 1790 in the 1st House.

Legislative Politics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivier Costa
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
Legislative Politics ◽  
New Work ◽  
Legislative Studies ◽  
Current State ◽  
French Case ◽  
Long Time ◽  
French Political Science ◽  
Over Time

This chapter proposes an assessment of the state of the study of legislative politics in France. It starts with a review of how the study of legislative politics has developed comparatively over time and identifies the major current debates in the comparative literature. Then it turns to the French case, explaining its weaknesses and peculiarities, and assessing the current state of legislative studies in France. We see that, for a long time, legislative studies were rare in the landscape of French political science. Things, though, have evolved since the end of the 1990s, when there was a renewed scholarly interest in central institutions and actors of the French political regime as well as the emergence of new work that was better connected with the methods, theories, and topics of mainstream legislative studies. Finally, we underline some dimensions of the agenda for the future study of legislative politics in France.

Policy Issue Substance and the Revitalization of Legislative Studies

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
John S. Lapinski
Keyword(s):  
Research Program ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Legislative Studies ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Political Preferences ◽  
Vantage Points ◽  
Oriented Approach ◽  
Oriented Research

This chapter seeks to introduce a substance-oriented research program based on policy issues for studying Congress from multiple vantage points. In doing so, it makes serious progress on systematically understanding Theodore Lowi's provocative claim that “policy determines politics,” which, while important, has never been satisfactorily understood, either empirically or theoretically. In advancing a substance-oriented approach to studying policymaking and lawmaking in Congress, the chapter sheds light on several important new tools and ideas to use in determining how policy issue substance matters for lawmaking. These include new data, such as an immense data set on U.S. lawmaking between 1877 to 1994; new and massive measures of political preferences broken down by policy issue areas for U.S. lawmakers spanning the period 1877 to 2010; and fresh approaches to analyzing these new data sets.

Good Advice: Information and Policy Making in the White House. By Daniel E. Ponder. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. 244p. $39.95.

2001 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 218-219
Author(s):  
Andrew Rudalevige
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
Legislative Studies ◽  
White House ◽  
Good Advice ◽  
College Station ◽  
Political Decision Making ◽  
Insight Into

That the amount and nature of the information reaching the president matters for the choices he makes is hardly disputed, but translating this insight into analysis has been slow work. This is true especially in comparison to other subfields (e.g., legislative studies), which in making use of the new institu- tionalism have stressed information by highlighting the roles institutions play in ameliorating the uncertainty rampant in political decision making. Daniel Ponder's new book, then, is particularly welcome. Good Advice asks some critical ques- tions: What did the president know, and how did he come to know it? Equally important, how did that matter?

The Parliament (FOLKETINGET)

2020 ◽  
pp. 87-106
Author(s):  
Helene Helboe Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Legislative Studies ◽  
Institutional Approach ◽  
Members Of Parliament ◽  
Committee Membership ◽  
The Government

This chapter asks how powerful, professional, and trusted the Danish Parliament, Folketinget, is. Based on a rational institutional approach, the chapter analyses existing and newly collected data on parliamentary institutions, parliamentary activity, members of Parliament, and voters’ perception of Parliament. The analyses show that the Folketing is especially strong and active when it comes to controlling the government, whereas its elective power is limited. The professionalization is increasing in terms of resources and well-educated members, but the degree of sectorization in committee membership is decreasing, possibly lowering specialization within Parliament and parliamentary party groups. Generally, Danish citizens still trust the Folketing, but trust is decreasing to an extent where it is no longer evident that most citizens see the Folketing as a democratic legitimizing institution. The chapter concludes that the Folketing is relatively powerful, professional, and trusted compared to other parliaments, but it also highlights where the Folketing as well as Danish legislative studies face challenges.

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