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Author: Jo Leinen
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Published: 2024-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783942282246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Augusto Lopez-Claros
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-01-23
Total Pages: 561
ISBN-13: 1108476961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIdentifies the major weaknesses in the current United Nations system and proposes fundamental reforms to address each. This title is also available as Open Access.
Author: Paul Evans
Publisher: Council of Europe
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9789287164858
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince 1990, significant political changes in Europe have also had an impact on the functioning of the Parliamentary Assembly. This publication emphasizes the practical way in which the Assembly operates and describes its political and institutional context.--Publisher's description.
Author: Stelios Stavridis
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-02-06
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9004336346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Parliamentary Diplomacy in European and Global Governance, 27 experts from all over the world analyse the fast-expanding phenomenon of parliamentary diplomacy. Through a wealth of empirical case studies, the book demonstrates that parliamentarians and parliamentary assemblies have an increasingly important international role. The volume begins with parliamentary diplomacy in Europe, because the European Parliament is one of the strongest autonomous institutional actors in world politics. The study then examines parliamentary diplomacy in relations between Europe and third countries or regions (Mexico, Turkey, Russia, the Mediterranean), before turning attention to the rest of the world: North and South America, Asia, Africa and Australia. This pioneering volume confirms the worldwide nature and salience of parliamentary diplomacy in contemporary global politics.
Author: Maja Brauer
Publisher:
Published: 2020-09
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9783942282178
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe creation of a UN Parliamentary Assembly as an initial step towards a world parliament is a key goal of Democracy Without Borders. This study examines the proposal and presents official recommendations
Author: Lyn Carson
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2015-06-29
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 0271069074
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrowing numbers of scholars, practitioners, politicians, and citizens recognize the value of deliberative civic engagement processes that enable citizens and governments to come together in public spaces and engage in constructive dialogue, informed discussion, and decisive deliberation. This book seeks to fill a gap in empirical studies in deliberative democracy by studying the assembly of the Australian Citizens’ Parliament (ACP), which took place in Canberra on February 6–8, 2009. The ACP addressed the question “How can the Australian political system be strengthened to serve us better?” The ACP’s Canberra assembly is the first large-scale, face-to-face deliberative project to be completely audio-recorded and transcribed, enabling an unprecedented level of qualitative and quantitative assessment of participants’ actual spoken discourse. Each chapter reports on different research questions for different purposes to benefit different audiences. Combined, they exhibit how diverse modes of research focused on a single event can enhance both theoretical and practical knowledge about deliberative democracy.
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: Gregory Conti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-04-25
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1108428738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe notion of 'representative democracy' seems unquestionably familiar today, but how did the Victorians understand democracy, parliamentary representation, and diversity?
Author: Warren M. Billings
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the founding and evolution of the oldest legislative body in the New World. The Virginia assembly developed legislative traditions that provided the basis of the American form of representative government. Based on extensive research in original records, the book also reinterprets the political histy of the colony and illuminates the role of European events and commercial growth in the rise of the governing class of Virginia. It includes vignettes of many of the colony's earliest political leaders and focuses attention on how their actions shaped the lives of all the colony's residents between 1619 and 1700.
Author: Berthold Rittberger
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005-03-24
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 0199273421
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy have the national governments of EU member states successively endowed the European Parliament with supervisory, budgetary, and legislative powers over the past fifty years? Building Europe's Parliament sheds new light on this pivotal issue, and provides a major contribution to the study of the European Parliament.Rittberger develops a theory of delegation to representative institutions in international politics which combines elements of democratic theory and different strands of institutionalist theory. To test the plausibility of his theory, Rittberger draws on extensive archival material and offers theory-guided, in-depth case studies of three landmark decisions in the history of the European Parliament: the creation of the Common Assembly of the ECSC in 1951 and the concomitant acquisition ofsupervisory powers vis-à-vis the quasi-executive High Authority; the delegation of budgetary powers following the signing of the Treaty of Luxembourg in 1970; and the delegation of legislative powers resulting from the adoption of the Single European Act signed in 1986. This is followed by the charting ofmore recent key developments, culminating in the adoption of the Constitutional Treaty in 2004.The book provides a welcome addition to the literature on institutional design by reflecting on the conditions under which governments opt for the creation and empowerment of parliamentary institutions in international politics. It also makes a valuable contribution to the application of democratic theory to the study of the European Union by demonstrating that political elites shared the view that the new supranational polity which emerged from the debris of World War II suffered from'democratic deficit' since its inception, thus disproving the claim that the lamented 'democratic deficit' is a recent phenomenon. Winner of the European Union Studies Association Prize for Best Dissertation 2002-2004
