Legislatures in the Policy Process: The Dilemmas of Economic Policy

In Legislatures in the Policy Process leading specialists in comparative governments reassess the conventional view that legislatures are either marginal to the policy-making process or becoming increasingly so. In the opening chapter, David Olson and Michael Mezey identify three categories of variables—external influences, internal influences and policy attributes—which can affect the policy-making role of legislatures. They specify sixteen hypotheses that describe the relationship among t...