Women comprise over 48% of India’s more than 1.4 billion people but have 15.1% representation in Parliament, compared to the international average of 24%, Law and Justice Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said. In India’s state legislatures, women hold about 10%...
with the size, diversity and antiquity of India, there are many different institutions performing a wide range of functions, social, economic and political. Some of these institutions have their origins very far back in time while others are of more recent origin, although even here, the older...
Members of parliament are central political actors in all democratic systems. Legislatures are highly visible institutions, and MPs have key roles representing citizens, debating key policy matters, scrutinising the executive and approving major changes to the law. The legislature is at the heart of ...
Robert Emmet from County Tipperary (later to become State Physician of Ireland) and Elizabeth Mason of County Kerry, both of whose portraits are today displayed at Cork’s Crawford Art Gallery. He is the elder brother of Robert Emmet, who is executed for leading the Irish Rebellion of 1803,...
The chapter describes the steps taken to reform parliamentary workplaces in the United Kingdom (UK), Canada and New Zealand. There is a particular emphasis on the history of reforms in the UK, as a first mover in the creation of independent oversight of
The leader of the European Union legislature's biggest party, a German ally of conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel, said cabinet in-fighting was putting a deal at risk and called on May to get rid of her own foreign secretary, Boris Johnson. "Please sack Johnson," said M...
aA Member of Legislative Assembly, or MLA, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to the Legislature of a State in the Indian system of government. Each state has between four and nine MLAs for every Member of Parliament (MP) that it has in the Lok Sabha. Th...
The recent scandals in the United Kingdom and New Zealand Parliaments involving the misuse of parliamentary and ministerial expenses regimes have provided an opportunity to revisit the question of how best to monitor and regulate the conduct of Members of Parliament. Four possible forms of regulation...
This is not mere theatre; moral battles are fought within parliament about, as examples, homosexuality or state intervention. He distinguishes between the semiotic contest in debates and the theatricalisation of conflict, which taken together constitute a ritual struggle or “an effective and ...
Over the years, the federal Congress and many state legislatures passed a single law 翻译结果2复制译文编辑译文朗读译文返回顶部 正在翻译,请等待... 翻译结果3复制译文编辑译文朗读译文返回顶部 Over the years, adopted by the Federal Parliament and the State legislatures in the number of single law ...