Author : Gary W. Copeland
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 39,20 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Comparative government
ISBN : 9780472082551
A cross-national survey of how parliaments adapt to change
Author : Andreas Bummel
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,28 MB
Release : 2024-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783942282260
This book explores the history, current relevance, and future implementation of the monumental idea of an elected global parliament. The second edition brings the book up to date and incorporates extensive revisions and additions.
Author : Pasi Ihalainen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,23 MB
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1782389555
Parliamentary theory, practices, discourses, and institutions constitute a distinctively European contribution to modern politics. Taking a broad historical perspective, this cross-disciplinary, innovative, and rigorous collection locates the essence of parliamentarism in four key aspects—deliberation, representation, responsibility, and sovereignty—and explores the different ways in which they have been contested, reshaped, and implemented in a series of representative national and regional case studies. As one of the first comparative studies in conceptual history, this volume focuses on debates about the nature of parliament and parliamentarism within and across different European countries, representative institutions, and genres of political discourse.
Author : David Beetham
Publisher : Inter-Parliamentary Union
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 28,48 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 9291423661
Author : Philip Norton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 50,93 MB
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 1000095843
The Impact of Legislatures brings together key articles and path-breaking scholarship published in The Journal of Legislative Studies during its first 25 years of publication, enabling the reader to make sense of the impact of legislatures in the modern world. Encompassing theory, comparative analysis, and county-based empirical studies, the volume examines the impact of legislatures as the key representative institutions of nations, addressing their relationships both to government and to the people. Legislatures are ubiquitous. They provide legitimacy to measures of public policy and to government. As such, they are key to how a nation is governed. But they do much more than confer legitimacy. They are generally multi-functional and functionally adaptable bodies, and are an essential link between citizen and government. However, scholarship on them has not been extensive and has often been descriptive and country- specific, limiting the capacity to make sense of them as a particular species of institution. The chapters in this volume reflect scholarship that helps the reader appreciate the significance of the place and consequences of legislatures, examining not only the relationship between the legislature and the executive, but also the oft-neglected relationship between legislatures and the people. Reflecting the growing body of research in the field of legislative studies, carried by The Journal of Legislative Studies since its inception in 1995, The Impact of Legislatures is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the impact of legislatures in the world today.
Author : Paul Kennedy
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,68 MB
Release : 2007-09-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0307387607
The Parliament of Man is the first definitive history of the United Nations, from one of America's greatest living historians.Distinguished scholar Paul Kennedy, author of the bestselling The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, gives us a thorough and timely account that explains the UN's roots and functions while also casting an objective eye on its effectiveness and its prospects for success in meeting the challenges that lie ahead. Kennedy shows the UN for what it is: fallible, human-based, often dependent on the whims of powerful national governments or the foibles of individual administrators—yet also utterly indispensable. With his insightful grasp of six decades of global history, Kennedy convincingly argues that "it is difficult to imagine how much more riven and ruinous our world of six billion people would be if there had been no UN."
Author : Guy S. Goodwin-Gill
Publisher :
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 13,68 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Election law
ISBN : 9789291420001
3.1.4 The right to vote
Author : Marc van der Hulst
Publisher : Inter-Parliamentary Union
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 12,70 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Legislators
ISBN : 9291420565
Undersøgelse af parlamentsmandatet baseret på svar på IPU-spørgeskema fra 134 parlamenter. Svarene er sammenlignet systematisk med de respektive forfatninger, lovgivning og parlamentsforretningsordener.
Author : Torbjörn Bergman
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 23,37 MB
Release : 2011-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0472117475
Parliamentary democracy is the most common regime type in the contemporary political world, but the quality of governance depends on effective parliamentary oversight and strong political parties. Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden have traditionally been strongholds of parliamentary democracy. In recent years, however, critics have suggested that new challenges such as weakened popular attachment, the advent of cartel parties, the judicialization of politics, and European integration have threatened the institutions of parliamentary democracy in the Nordic region. This volume examines these claims and their implications. The authors find that the Nordic states have moved away from their previous resemblance to a Westminster model toward a form of parliamentary democracy with more separation-of-powers features—a Madisonian model. These features are evident both in vertical power relations (e.g., relations with the European Union) and horizontal ones (e.g., increasingly independent courts and central banks). Yet these developments are far from uniform and demonstrate that there may be different responses to the political challenges faced by contemporary Western democracies.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,48 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Capitols
ISBN : 9789090297644
"Parliament is the space where politics literally takes shape. Here, collective decisions take form in a specific setting where relationships between political actors are organized through architecture. The architecture of spaces of political congregation is not only an expression of a political culture, it also shapes this culture. 0Since 2010, architecture office XML has researched the architecture of spaces of political congregation. The book 'Parliament' explores the double-sided relationship between space and politics by documenting and comparing the plenary halls of the parliaments of all 193 United Nations member states. Almost like a manual archive, the book documents the rooms in the same style and scale and also provides key data and the assembly hall's location within the larger parliament building. Organized as a lexicon, the book allows comparison of all 193 national parliaments in the world." --Cover.
