Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Preface; CHAPTER 1 The Creation of a Scandinavian-Style Parliament in Scotland; CHAPTER 2 An Analytical Framework for the Comparative Study of Parliamentary Committee Systems; CHAPTER 3 Hypothesising on the Legislative Capacity of the Scottish Committees; CHAPTER 4 Leading the Scottish Committees: The Challenges of the Convenor's Role; CHAPTER 5 The Scottish Committees at Work Corporate or Permeable Bodies?; CHAPTER 6 The Scottish Committees as the Motor of a 'New Politics'
CHAPTER 7 The Challenges of Chairing a Swedish Riksdag CommitteeCHAPTER 8 The Riksdag Committees as Legislative Initiators; CHAPTER 9 The Deliberative Function of the Riksdag Committees--Engine Room or Record Office?; CHAPTER 10 The Growing Investigative Capacity of the Riksdag Committees; CHAPTER 11 The Challenge of Chairing the Althingi Committees; CHAPTER 12 The Althingi Committees in Action : Towards a 'Committee Culture'?; CHAPTER 13 Scotland: Towards a Scandi
Summary
This book is unique in analysing the new Scottish Parliament from a systematically comparative perspective. Its basic premise is that since devolution in 1999 Scotland can be considered a Scandinavian-style democracy
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-290) and index
