Author: Publisher:
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Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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State of Wisconsin Blue Book
Author: Library Services to the Legislature
Author: New South Wales. Parliament. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
A Digest of the Laws of Texas
Author: George Washington PaschalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1150
Book Description
Using Your State Library
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Government libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
General Laws of the State of Texas
Author: TexasThe Roles and Function of Parliamentary Questions
Author: Shane MartinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135746672
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Parliamentary questions are a feature of almost all national legislatures. Despite this, we know very little about how questions are used by MPs and what impact questions have on controlling the government. This volume advances our theoretical and empirical knowledge of the use of questioning in a number of different parliamentary settings. The propensity of parliamentarians to ask questions indicates that the interrogatories are an important tool for measuring an individual legislator’s job. Ultimately, how a parliamentarian chooses to use the questioning tool provides a unique insight into legislator behaviour and role orientation. Many of the chapters in this volume provide new empirical measures of legislator activity and use this data to provide new tests of leading theories of legislator behaviour. At an institutional level, questions provide an important source of information for the chamber and are a critical tool of government oversight – as many of the chapters in the volume indicate. Evidence of the impact of questions on executive and bureaucratic oversight challenges conventional views of parliaments as weak and ineffective parts of the political process. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies.
The Impact of Legislatures
Author: Philip NortonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000095843
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
The Impact of Legislatures brings together key articles and path-breaking scholarship published in The Journal of Legislative Studies during its first 25 years of publication, enabling the reader to make sense of the impact of legislatures in the modern world. Encompassing theory, comparative analysis, and county-based empirical studies, the volume examines the impact of legislatures as the key representative institutions of nations, addressing their relationships both to government and to the people. Legislatures are ubiquitous. They provide legitimacy to measures of public policy and to government. As such, they are key to how a nation is governed. But they do much more than confer legitimacy. They are generally multi-functional and functionally adaptable bodies, and are an essential link between citizen and government. However, scholarship on them has not been extensive and has often been descriptive and country- specific, limiting the capacity to make sense of them as a particular species of institution. The chapters in this volume reflect scholarship that helps the reader appreciate the significance of the place and consequences of legislatures, examining not only the relationship between the legislature and the executive, but also the oft-neglected relationship between legislatures and the people. Reflecting the growing body of research in the field of legislative studies, carried by The Journal of Legislative Studies since its inception in 1995, The Impact of Legislatures is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the impact of legislatures in the world today.
The Legislature's Library
Author: Florida. Legislature. Division of Legislative Library ServicesPublisher:
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Category : Government libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Hand-list of Legislative Sessions and Session Laws, Statutory Revisions, Compilations, Codes, Etc., and Constitutional Conventions of the United States and Its Possessions and of the Several States to May, 1912
Author: Charles Jacob BabbittPublisher:
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Category : Constitutional conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Legislative History
Author: Arizona State HistorianPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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