Author: Robert Kent GoochPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The French Parliamentary Committee System
Author: Robert Kent GoochPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Parliamentary Committees in the Policy Process
Author: Sven T. SiefkenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100044113X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
This book sheds new light on the often shadowy, but essential role of committees, which exist in modern parliaments around the globe, and it questions the conventional notion that the ‘real’ work of parliament happens in committees. Renowned country specialists take a close look at what goes on in committees and how it matters for policy making. While committees are seen as the central place where policy is made, they often hold their sessions closed to the public and calls for transparency are growing. To understand this "black box" it is necessary to look within but also beyond the walls of the committee rooms and parliament buildings. Bringing together formal and informal aspects, rules and practices shows that committees are not a paradise of policy making. They have great relevance nonetheless: as crystallization points in the policy networks, as drivers for division of labor and for socialization and the integration of MPs. The new insights presented in this book will be of interest to scholars, students and professionals in parliamentary affairs, legislative studies, government, and comparative politics. They are also relevant for political analysts, journalists, and policymakers.
The French parlimentary committee
Author: Robert Kent GoochA Comparative Study of Modern Parliamentary Systems
Author: Weitan YihTools for Parliamentary Oversight
Author: Hironori YamamotoPublisher: Inter-Parliamentary Union
ISBN: 9291423505
Category : Legislative auditing
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Economica
Author: Parliamentary Committees in a Party-Centred Context
Author: Tim Alexander MicklerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000549887
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This book examines the working procedures of parliamentary party groups within specialised committees - the backstage but primary means for MPs to influence policy. It explains which MPs specialise in particular policy areas, how they make policy choices in committees, and, subsequently, how these individual decisions are aggregated and ‘unified’ within and via parliamentary party groups. In doing so, the book expertly reveals the internal working procedures of parliaments and the role of individual MPs vis-á-vis the parliamentary party group leadership. Based on an analysis of more than 3,000 committee assignments and over 100 in-depth interviews with MPs, it shows that individual experts in committees have a central role and decision-making power which is more varied and decentralised from the leadership than commonly assumed. It demonstrates that most policy decisions are prepared bottom-up rather than dictated top-down and that parliamentary party groups are not strictly hierarchical organisations dominated by elites. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of legislative and parliamentary studies, representative democracy, comparative politics, and journalists and practitioners within parliaments.
The New Roles of Parliamentary Committees
Author: DavidsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136320784
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Parliaments had been expected to decline in significance at the end of the 20th century, but instead they have developed new and vital political roles and have innovated their institutional structure in parliamentary committees, not only in a few parliaments, but as a global phenomenon.
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
Book Description
The Physician-Legislators of France
Author: Jack D. EllisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521382083
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Explores the causes and significance of the political influence gained by French medical doctors between 1870-1914.