Parliamentary Opposition in Old and New Democracies

Issues of political opposition, and of parliamentary opposition in particular, are at the very heart of the study of democratic processes in different parts of the world. This volume offers a broad comparative assessment of the many faces of parliamentary opposition in different political, legal and cultural settings. It looks both at the core features of the parliamentary opposition itself and its role in the legislative and wider political process. This includes an inquiry into the manifold challenges that the parliamentary opposition in many countries has come face in the more recent past, including in particular the rise of different non-parliamentary opposition actors. The countries covered in this volume include the old democracies of the Anglo-Saxon world, continental Europe and Japan, and the new democracies and democratising regimes in Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, South East Asia and South Africa. All chapters have been written by leading scholars in the field. This book was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies.Helms, Ludger is the author of 'Parliamentary Opposition in Old and New Democracies ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780415390705 and ISBN 0415390702.