Comparative
Legislative
Research
Center
The
University of Iowa
328
Schaeffer Hall
The
University of
Iowa
Iowa City,
Iowa
52242
Telephone:
(319) 335-2361
FAX:
(319) 335-3211
Director: Gerhard Loewenberg
Administrative
Director:
Michelle L. Wiegand
The
Comparative
Legislative
Research
Center
is a research unit at The University
of Iowa
established in 1971 to conduct research on legislative institutions throughout
the world. Over the years it has
received grants from the Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the
U.S. Agency for International Development, the Pew Charitable Trust, the Charles
Stewart Mott Foundation, and the Benjamin F. Shambaugh Memorial Fund among
others. It has organized research
conferences that have resulted in a number of books, notably including the Handbook
of Legislative Research (Harvard
University Press 1985) and Legislatures: Comparative Perspectives on Representative Assemblies
(University
of Michigan Press 2002).
The
Center’s principal activity is publishing
the Legislative
Studies Quarterly, an international refereed journal devoted to
research on representative assemblies. The
Quarterly is the official journal of the Legislative Studies Section
of the American Political Science Association. It
was founded in 1976 by faculty members at The University
of
Iowa
but today its editors and the members of its editorial board are
drawn from major research universities throughout the
United
States
and abroad.
The
Director and Associate Director of the Comparative
Legislative
Research
Center
are faculty members of the Department
of Political Science of The
University of Iowa.