Parliament the Mirror of the Nation

Parliament the Mirror of the Nation

Author: Gregory Conti

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-04-25

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1108428738

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The notion of 'representative democracy' seems unquestionably familiar today, but how did the Victorians understand democracy, parliamentary representation, and diversity?


A Thousand Steps to Parliament

A Thousand Steps to Parliament

Author: Manduhai Buyandelger

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2022-11-07

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0226818748

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A Thousand Steps to Parliament traces how the complicated, contradictory paths to political representation that women in Mongolia must walk mirror those the world over. Mongolia has often been deemed an "island of democracy," commended for its rapid adoption of free democratic elections in the wake of totalitarian socialism. The democratizing era, however, brought alongside it a phenomenon that Manduhai Buyandelger terms "electionization"--a restructuring of elections from time-grounded events into a continuous, neoliberal force that governs everyday life beyond the electoral period. In A Thousand Steps to Parliament, she shows how campaigns in Mongolia have come to substitute for the functions of governing, from social welfare to the private sector. Such long-term, high-investment campaigns depend on an accumulation of wealth and power beyond the reach of most women candidates. Given their limited financial means and outsider status, successful women candidates instead use strategies of self-polishing to cultivate charisma and a reputation for being oyunlag, or intellectful. This carefully and intentionally crafted identity can be called the "electable self" treating their bodies and minds as pliable and renewable, women candidates draw from the same practices of neoliberalism that have unsustainably commercialized elections. A Thousand Steps to Parliament traces how the complicated, contradictory paths to representation that women in Mongolia must walk mirror those the world over, revealing an urgent need to grapple with the encroaching effects of neoliberalism in democracies globally.


A World Parliament

A World Parliament

Author: Jo Leinen

Publisher:

Published: 2024-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783942282246

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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.


The Parliament of Man

The Parliament of Man

Author: Paul Kennedy

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2007-09-04

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0307387607

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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."


The Reformation Parliament 1529-1536

The Reformation Parliament 1529-1536

Author: Professor Emeritus Stanford E Lehmberg

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1970-04-02

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780521076555

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The Reformation Parliament was one of the most important assemblies ever to meet in England.


Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament

Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament

Author: Henrik Schoenefeldt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780367690083

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Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament explores the history of the UK Houses of Parliament in Westminster from an environmental design perspective, and the role David Boswell Reid played in the development of the original ventilation and climate control system in parliament. This book retraces and critically examines the evolution of the environmental principles underlying the design of the Houses of Parliament, engaging with fundamental questions about air quality, energy efficiency and thermal comfort. This yields insights into the historic methods of environmental design that were characterised by physical experimentation and post-occupancy evaluation. Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament examines the history of the buildings' operation, studying the practical reality of its performance in use and offers the opportunity to reflect on current challenges faced by architects and engineers adapting to the realities of climate change. This book is an ideal read for academics, politicians and practitioners with an interest in architectural history and heritage, theory, engineering and conservation.