My husband, David Judge, emeritus professor of politics at the University of Strathclyde, who has died aged 75 from oesophageal cancer, was a leading scholar of parliamentary politics and democratic representation.
Among his most influential contributions were The Parliamentary State (1993), which addressed fundamental questions about British politics and institutional authority, and The European Parliament (2003, with David Earnshaw), a major text examining the political dynamics of the European parliament and its role in debates about democracy and legitimacy.
