TY - CHAP
T1 - The structure of legislative–executive relations
T2 - Asia in comparative perspective
AU - Cheibub, José Antonio
AU - Limongi, Fernando
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Rosalind Dixon and Tom Ginsburg 2014. All rights reserved.
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - Legislative-executive relations refers to the institutions that govern and the processes that characterize the interactions between two of the three conventional branches of a democratic political system (the third being, of course, the judiciary). This entails a consideration of the legal (constitutional and statutory) provisions that regulate the formation of the government, the rules for electing the legislative assembly, the way the formation of each of these branches affects the performance of the other, the rules for producing legislation, and the behavior (strategic or otherwise) of the actors that make up the "executive" (the head of government and the ministers) and the "legislative" (individual legislators and political parties). This is a large area of research, which could reasonably encompass everything that would traditionally go under the heading of "comparative government." A thorough treatment of all these topics here is impossible for reasons of space, and so we offer a selective treatment of the issues based on our particular perspective of how studies of legislative-executive relations have evolved. We provide a general overview of the issues, before turning to the Asian context in the last part of the chapter. In order to simplify the analysis we divide the vast and heterogeneous literature that concerns us here into two parts, which we call the "earlier" and the "later" generations of studies of legislative-executive relations.
AB - Legislative-executive relations refers to the institutions that govern and the processes that characterize the interactions between two of the three conventional branches of a democratic political system (the third being, of course, the judiciary). This entails a consideration of the legal (constitutional and statutory) provisions that regulate the formation of the government, the rules for electing the legislative assembly, the way the formation of each of these branches affects the performance of the other, the rules for producing legislation, and the behavior (strategic or otherwise) of the actors that make up the "executive" (the head of government and the ministers) and the "legislative" (individual legislators and political parties). This is a large area of research, which could reasonably encompass everything that would traditionally go under the heading of "comparative government." A thorough treatment of all these topics here is impossible for reasons of space, and so we offer a selective treatment of the issues based on our particular perspective of how studies of legislative-executive relations have evolved. We provide a general overview of the issues, before turning to the Asian context in the last part of the chapter. In order to simplify the analysis we divide the vast and heterogeneous literature that concerns us here into two parts, which we call the "earlier" and the "later" generations of studies of legislative-executive relations.
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U2 - 10.4337/9781781002704.00013
DO - 10.4337/9781781002704.00013
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84957991295
SN - 9781781002698
SP - 123
EP - 162
BT - Comparative Constitutional Law In Asia
PB - Edward Elgar Publishing
ER -