How professionalized legislatures level the playing field
On the Quantitative Peace blog, Alissandra Stoyan and and Sarah Shair-Rosenfield discuss their just-published article in Governance: “In our article, we argue that when legislators are highly professionalized they bring individual skills and resources to office from previous work or governing experiences, and these factors may help level the playing field to empower the legislature vis-à-vis the executive.” Read the blog comment.
