Description
The annual journal of the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions/Commission internationale pour l'Histoire des AssemblTes d'Ttats (ICHRPI/CIHAE) includes 20 articles and reviews (some in French or German). Topics include local influence on central legislation in England and Germany; the Dutch assemblies and the renewal of the French alliance; representation reform in the South Carolina Legislature in the early Republic, 1783-94; the making of the Basque political institutions; and women and contemporary politics in Scotland, New Zealand and Finland, c. 1960-96. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.