Theoretical approaches in legislative studies. -- Formal models of legislatures / The sociology of legislators and legislatures / Typologies and classifications / Methods of legislative research. -- Roll-call analysis and the study of legislatures / Words as data : content analysis in legislative studies / Debate and deliberation in legislatures / Interviews and surveys in legislative research / The experimental study of legislative behaviour / Representation and legislative careers. -- Candidate selection : implications and challenges for legislative behviour / The effect of electoral institutions on legislative behaviour / Gender and legislatures / Roles in legislatures / Legislative careers / Organization and rules. -- Procedure and rules in legislatures / The politics of bicameralism / Committees / Parties in the legislature. -- Political parties and legislators / Party discipline / Legislative party switching / Legislative institutions and coalition government / Policy-making and oversight. -- Institutional foundations of legislative agenda-setting / Lawmaking / Legislatures and public finance / Legislatures, lobbying, and interest groups / Legislatures and foreign policy / Common agency? : legislatures and bureaucracies / Expanding the scope of legislative analysis. -- Political behaviour in the European Parliament / Sub-national legislatures / The study of legislatures in Latin America / Legislatures in Central and Eastern Europe / Authoritarian legislatures / Reluctant Democrats and their legislatures