ABSTRACT
What position does parliament hold in the process of public policy-making? An on-going controversy in the social sciences, and one which has been a recurrent theme in preceding chapters, is whether parliament and the other elected institutions of representative democracy have lost power to competitors such as interest organizations and bureaucrats. Although the constitution prescribes that the popularly elected assembly have the final say over decision-making in society, the capacity of parliament really to exercise power is dependent on its ability to communicate with other power centers. In order to wield influence, parliament must be a locus for interaction between decision-makers. 1
