Managing Editor: Michelle L. Wiegand
The Legislative Studies Quarterly is published by the Comparative Legislative Research Center at 328 Schaeffer Hall, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242. Phone: (319) 335-2361, Fax: (319) 335-3211,
email: lsq@uiowa.edu
The Legislative Studies Quarterly is an international journal devoted to the publication of research on representative assemblies. Its purpose is to disseminate scholarly work on parliaments and legislatures, their relations to other political institutions, their functions in the political system, and the activities of their members both within the institution and outside. Contributions are invited from scholars in all countries. The pages of the Quarterly are open to all research approaches consistent with the normal canons of scholarship, and to work on representative assemblies in all settings and all time periods. The aim of the journal is to contribute to the formulation and verification of general theories about legislative systems, processes, and behavior. The editors encourage contributors to emphasize the cross-national implications of their findings, even if these findings are based on research within a single country.
The Legislative Studies Quarterly is the official journal of the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association. It was founded at The University of Iowa by
Malcolm E. Jewell and Gerhard Loewenberg in 1976.
Comparative Legislative Research Center
Director: Gerhard Loewenberg
Administrative Director: Michelle L. Wiegand
The Comparative Legislative Research Center is a research unit at The University of Iowa established in 1971 to conduct research on legislative institutions throughout the world. Over the years it has received grants from the Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Pew Charitable Trust, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, and the Benjamin F. Shambaugh Memorial Fund among others. It has organized research conferences that have resulted in a number of books, notably including the Handbook of Legislative Research (Harvard University Press 1985) and Legislatures: Comparative Perspectives on Representative Assemblies (University of Michigan Press 2002).
The Center’s principal activity is publishing the Legislative Studies Quarterly, an international refereed journal devoted to research on representative assemblies. The Quarterly is the official journal of the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association. It was founded in 1976 by faculty members at The University of Iowa but today its editors and the members of its editorial board are drawn from major research universities throughout the United States and abroad.
The Director of the Comparative Legislative Research Center is a faculty member of the Department of Political Science of The University of Iowa.