15Jan 2024
Call for Chapter Proposals: “Exploring Dynamics of Legislative-Executive Relations around the World”
23:04 - By RCLS
Exploring Dynamics of Legislative-Executive Relations around the World to be edited by Dr. Irina Khmelko and Dr. John Ishiyama
This is a call for chapter proposals for our new edited volume that will explore dynamics in legislative-executive relations in different countries around the world. This volume is intended to be a follow-up volume to the one we published on Legislative Decline[1]. In that volume, we presented cases where legislatures were losing powers to the more powerful and frequently populist executives in different countries of the world. Since that time, Dr. Ishiyama, who wrote the conclusion to that volume, has published an article arguing that this may not be a monotonic global trend[2] and that there is wide diversity in emerging legislative-executive relationships. Thus, a central theoretical question for this volume is: what explains this diversity? Why is executive power growing in some countries relative to legislative power, whereas in others, the balance remains unchanged, or, in fact, legislative power has grown? This is a critically important theoretical question, especially since previous literature suggests that this balance helps determine the future of democracy in the world.
More specifically, this volume will present a collection of case studies that will discuss the most recent developments in legislative-executive relations in different countries around the world. This research will allow us to find answers to the following questions: what modern trends can be observed in legislative-executive relations globally? Has executive power grown relative to legislative power, or not? Have legislatures become more assertive when facing the challenge of executive power? What role do political parties play in the balance of power between executives and legislatures? What other factors may explain these observed dynamics (e.g., the degree of polarization, ethnic and cultural pluralism, etc.)? We will be looking for each chapter identifying at least three, but no more than five, of the most important factors that would explain the emerging dynamics in legislative-executive relations in each country’s case study included in this volume.
Here are the guidelines for your proposals:
- Limit your proposal to 250 words or less, please.
- Identify a country (or countries) you want to analyze in your chapter.
- What data sources do you plan on using?
- Do you have a draft, or did you start already working on a paper on this topic, or perhaps you have published a paper on a similar topic in the past? If so, please include it with your proposal.
Please include your CV with a list of your presentations and publications.
Please submit your proposals to Dr. Irina Khmelko by January 30, 2024.
Thank you for considering,
Dr. Irina Khmelko (Chair RC08, IPSA)
[1] Irina Khmelko, F. Stapenhurst, and M. Mezey. Legislative Decline in the 21st Century: A Comparative Perspective. Routledge, 2020.
[2]John Ishiyama (2022) Has legislative power declined globally?, The Journal of Legislative Studies, DOI: 10.1080/13572334.2022.2103288