From the thirteenth century onwards, two political bodies began meeting to debate royal requests for taxation: Parliament and Convocation, the assemblies of the lower and upper clergy. Just as Parliament's responsibilities grew over time to include various temporal matters of the state, Convocation's...
Legislatures could, for example, perform a co-opting function by giving legislative power to potential opponents of incumbents. Additional evidence is needed, however, to show that this legislative function of parliament exists in non-democracies. This article, therefore, takes a step back and ...
More specifically, we model votes on the question of selecting committee chairs through secret ballot as a function of factors both internal and external to the Parliament. While we find some evidence of exogenous, constituency-based forces, we find that support for reform was largely driven by ...
• A relevant insight into organizational culture and governance: 45.3% of participants indicated that it is "very to definitely probable" that individuals in positions of authority would exploit their position of power in attempt to obtain sexual acts, suggesting a need for organizations to reflect...
This was an odd choice to say the least, for Frederick was at a low point of his power. A weak, indecisive man, he consistently gave in to the liberals in parliament; in fact he was spineless, and stood for much that Bismarck disliked, personally and politically. Yet Bismarck courted Fr...
-Correction on the collapse of the healthcare system and the drop of life expectancy -Correction for electricity consumption trends in certain countries -Adjustment to the calculation of the EU Parliament's vote in the case of an application for membership ...
it has become the practice of the Parliament to receive an assessment of proposed legislation from a gender perspective; the use of gender-disaggregated statistics has grown; a system of national mechanisms has been set up to monitor and evaluate the status of women; and standardized gender indica...
Countries and the Distribution of Political Power In the United Kingdom, that country’s Supreme Court ruled that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s suspension of Parliament was illegal. In the United States, meanwhile, House Democrats have launched an impeachment inquiry into President Donald...
The European Parliament adopted a position on the review of the four key waste directives in March 2017, with more ambitious targets and provisions than the Commission's proposals issued in 2016. In some of its 234 proposed amendments to the WFD and to accelerate the transition to a circular...
Since the 0 V battery charging function has higher priority than the abnormal charge current detection function, abnormal charge current may not be detected by the product with the 0 V battery charging function while the battery voltage is low. ...