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Author: Jon Pierre
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 737
ISBN-13: 0199665672
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Handbook provides a broad introduction to Swedish politics, and how Sweden's political system and policies have evolved over the past few decades.
Author: G. L. Verma
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788126914401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Shaun Bowler
Publisher: Parliaments & Legislatures
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780814207963
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrings together empirical studies of the internal cohesiveness of political party groups in European parliaments and the leadership behavior that leads to disciplined parties in parliament, in sections on theories and definitions, the "Westminster Model," established continental European systems, newly emerging systems, and parliamentary discipline and coalition governments. Chapters originated as papers presented at a spring 1995 workshop held in Bordeaux, France. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Michael Laver
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1994-09-30
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780521438377
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA close examination of the constitutional relationship between legislature and executive in parliamentary regimes.
Author: F. Leslie Seidle
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0773525076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKParliamentary government's continuity is rooted in enduring principles such as citizen representation and accountability to the legislature. But parliamentary systems have evolved in response to changes in the societies they govern and in citizens' views about democratic practices. In this title, the authors demonstrate how, in their respective countries, parliamentary governments have combined stability with the capacity to adapt to such changes. They provide analyses of reforms to parliamentary institutions and governance in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. The authors address issues of representation - the move to a proportional electoral system in New Zealand, the unsuccessful attempt to establish a domestic head of state in Australia, and the reform of the British House of Lords - and demonstrate that citizens increasingly want legislative institutions to more closely reflect the societies they serve. To discuss responsiveness, the governance of indigenous communities and their place within the broader society in Canada and New Zealand are examined.
Author: Tom Ginsburg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-02-27
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 1107020565
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAssesses what we know - and do not know - about comparative constitutional design and particular institutional choices concerning executive power and other issues.
Author: Pasi Ihalainen
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2016-01-01
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 1782389555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKParliamentary 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: Harold J. Laski
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-10-30
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1317586611
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume, originally published in 1938 can be read by anyone with an interest in the evolution of the institution of government in England and how the workings of some parts of it particularly relate to the problems of the first half of the twentieth century.
Author: Steffen Ganghof
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022-01-16
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0192897144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. In a democracy, a constitutional separation of powers between the executive and the assembly may be desirable, but the constitutional concentration of executive power in a single human being is not. Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism defends this thesis and explores 'semi-parliamentary government' as an alternative to presidential government. Semi-parliamentarism avoids power concentration in one person by shifting the separation of powers into the democratic assembly. The executive becomes fused with only one part of the assembly, even though the other part has at least equal democratic legitimacy and robust veto power on ordinary legislation. The book identifies the Australian Commonwealth and Japan as well as the Australian states of New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia as semi-parliamentary systems. Using data from 23 countries and six Australian states, it maps how parliamentary and semi-parliamentary systems balance competing visions of democracy; it analyzes patterns of electoral and party systems, cabinet formation, legislative coalition-building, and constitutional reforms; systematically compares the semi-parliamentary and presidential separation of powers; and develops new and innovative semi-parliamentary designs, some of which do not require two separate chambers.
Author: David Beetham
Publisher: Inter-Parliamentary Union
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9291423661
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