Introduction
Legislative roles and legislative studies: the neo-institutionalist turning point
The emergence and transformation of representative roles
The consequences of representatives: role orientations: attitudes, behaviour, perceptions
Roles as strategies: towards a logic of legislative behavior
Legislators and their representational roles: strategic choices or habits of the heart?
Party dimensions of representation in Westminster parliaments: Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom
Parliamentary roles of MPs in sharp and soft focus: interviews and behavioral record compared
Role stability in the context of institutional and positional change
The cognitive rationality of role choices: evidences from the European Parliament.
Parliamentary roles in modern legislatures. ISBN 9780415575683. Published by Routledge in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.