Challenging Executive Dominance: Legislatures and Foreign Affairs - Paperback

by Tapio Raunio (Editor), Wolfgang Wagner (Editor)

The book examines how legislatures across the world monitor, oversee and control governments in external relations. The chapters origianally published as a special issue in West European Politics.

Author Biography

Tapio Raunio is professor of political science at the University of Tampere. His research interests cover legislatures and political parties, the Europeanization of domestic politics, semi-presidentialism and the Finnish political system.

Wolfgang Wagner is professor of international security at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research revolves around domestic politics and international conflict with particular attention given to legislatures and, more recently, political parties.