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This book addresses one of the most important issues in the field of legislative studies - parliamentary committees. Not enough books have looked into this topic, and it has been quite a few years since the last one. The fact that the centrality of parliamentary committees in policy-making is not assumed but investigated is a strength, and the team assembled to cover each country is impressive. A common framework for analysis implemented in the country cases creates a cohesiveness that is lacking in most cross-country edited volumes. This book offers a useful, original and important contribution. Reuven Y. Hazan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Parliamentary Committees in the Policy Process provides a close view of committee members, organization and functions in 12 countries, ranging from the stable to the episodic, from the large to the small, and from one hemisphere to the other. This book's multi-dimensional view of committee members and policy functions within a changing and complex institutional structure will be a basic platform for future research on ubiquitous and variable legislative committees in parliaments around the world. David M. Olson, UNC Greensboro, USA.

This book addresses one of the most important issues in the field of legislative studies - parliamentary committees. Not enough books have looked into this topic, and it has been quite a few years since the last one. The fact that the centrality of parliamentary committees in policy-making is not assumed but investigated is a strength, and the team assembled to cover each country is impressive. A common framework for analysis implemented in the country cases creates a cohesiveness that is lacking in most cross-country edited volumes. This book offers a useful, original and important contribution. Reuven Y. Hazan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Parliamentary Committees in the Policy Process provides a close view of committee members, organization and functions in 12 countries, ranging from the stable to the episodic, from the large to the small, and from one hemisphere to the other. This book's multi-dimensional view of committee members and policy functions within a changing and complex institutional structure will be a basic platform for future research on ubiquitous and variable legislative committees in parliaments around the world. David M. Olson, UNC Greensboro, USA.

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Sven T. Siefken is professor of political science at the German Federal University of Applied Administrative Sciences and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Parliamentary Research (IParl) in Berlin. Hilmar Rommetvedt is research professor of political science at NORCE Norwegian Research Centre in Stavanger, Norway.

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