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The Journal of Legislative Studies

academic journal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 27, 2023
Entity authorityQ7743594 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Journal of Legislative Studies is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on legislatures. It was established in 1995 and is published by Routledge. The editor-in-chief is Philip Norton (University of Hull).

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “The Journal of Legislative Studies” as academic journal. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Journal, Legislative and Studies can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as academic journal. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 27, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q7743594. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Journal of Legislative Studies” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.