This book examines the role of parliaments in modern constitutionalism by comparing various European deliberative institutions.

This book looks at constitutionalism and the rold or parliaments by first setting the historic scene in a selection of major European deliberative institutions, and then by looking at themes around the doctrine of separation of powers.

Both the book's comparative ambition and its substantive focus on the constitutional role of parliaments make it distinctive and are to be welcomed...Comparative constitutional scholarship is in vogue and, in offering a comparative analysis of the roles of parliaments, this book offers a valuable corrective to any tendency in comparative constitutional studies to focusing only on the case law of supreme and constitutional courts.