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HOW PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT CAN STRENGTHEN THE WORK OF PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES: LEARNING LESSONS FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF THE WELSH PARLIAMENTStirbu, DianaParliamentarian
Last-minute lobbying in the New Zealand Parliamentary bar contributed to a campaign led by Tim Barnett who was elected to NZ parliament in 1996. He had come to NZ via the UK where he was known by the media there as ‘Britain’s first professional homosexual’, the first person to work ...
Electoral Institutions and the Failure of Parliamentary Representation in the European Union Many in the EU have believed that this problem could be effectively tackled by vesting greater powers in the European Parliament (EP), the Union's only directly-elected institution. The central argument of ...
party executive and the parliamentary group, will strive to implement electoral strategies and shift policies accordingly to maximise votes and political gains to an extent (Harmel and Janda1994; Hennl and Franzmann2017). Activists are the members and, in some cases, non-member sympathisers who act...
“that’s when Civil Society launched campaigns on Twitter denouncing the number of committees that the bill was assigned to; that made [the president of the Chamber of Deputies],who in another context would not have changed his mind,feel singled out and decide to reduce the number of committ...
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It was a highly responsible position; Mill was often required to give evidence on behalf of the Company before Parliamentary Committees. And he was very well paid. The job carried a salary of GBP 2000 – more than 20 times the average income. But while employed by the East India Company,...
Each party has its own process for selecting parliamentary candidates. Conservative associations have broad powers that they do a good job of guarding, for good and for ill, and are responsible for the initial sifting of applicants. Local Labour parties have comparatively few powers. ...
Another unresolved question: whether the motions introduced by Casten and Cohen are eligible for the fast-track legislative process that would force a vote on the floor. Ethics panel attorneys are in the process of discussing parliamentary issues with the two lawmakers, according to a person famili...