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Setting the agenda for parliament is the most significant institutional weapon for governments to shape policy outcomes, because governments with significant ag

Legislatures are arguably the most important political institution in modern democracies. The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies, written by some of the mos

Demonstrates that the majority party seizes agenda control at nearly every stage of the legislative process.

With a strong comparative framework, this book examines fourteen countries with parliamentary or semi-presidential systems of government to provide a detailed i

Forgotten: How Congress Ignores the Lower and Middle Classes -- Power and the Policy Agenda -- Congressional Attention to Economic Issues -- Economic Interests