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Representation in Westminster in the 1990s : The ghost of Edmund Burke [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Why are 'trustee' notions of representation still invoked in the UK House of Commons in the 1990s? In answering this question this article analyses the premises of Burkean theory and the arguments that these premises are of little relevance in the late ...
Allaun F.   +23 more
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Redundancy in parliamentary political discourse [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper is aimed at analysing the use of redundancy in Oral Questions in the Andalusian Parliament. The corpus is made up of 12 oral questions raised by the two main political parties at the Committee for Equality and Social Welfare.
Alvarez Benito, Gloria   +1 more
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Taking Democracy Seriously in the Euro Area: Reinvigorating the European Parliament's Functions and Responsibilities

open access: yesEuropean Papers, 2018
(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2018 3(1), 33-43 | Overview | (Table of Contents) I. T-Dem or the democratic question put back at the heart of economic governance. - II.
Frédéric Allemand
doaj   +1 more source

Private members’ bills & parliamentary motions: Who bothers?

open access: yesResearch & Politics
While the role of legislators in parliamentary systems may sometimes seem to involve little more than to support the government of the day, legislators in many parliaments regularly take advantage of their, often limited, opportunities to introduce ...
Eunseong Oh, Indridi H. Indridason
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The death of Private Leonard Manning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
New Zealand Army Private, Leonard Manning, was killed in an ambush in East Timor in July 2000. The circumstances of his killing and the military context in which it occurred, raised many questions at the time and many of these remain unresolved.
Smith, Ron C.
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Direct Democracy And Its Indirect Neutralization In Political Systems: Learning From The Case Of Estonia

open access: yesBaltic Journal of Law & Politics, 2013
The Estonian parliament is the only institution in the country that may call a referendum, i.e. the parliament itself can formulate the crucial question and put it forward for people to vote. The constitution, though, lacks the institution to harness the
Liivik Ero
doaj   +1 more source

Britain and Latin America: 'Hope in a Time of Change?' [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
In the first section we propose briefly to look at the history of British-Latin American relations since the 1930s to emphasise what is perhaps common knowledge: the steady decline in the relationship, which reached its lowest point during the war in
Fawcett, Louise, Posada-Carbó, Eduardo
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A Hybrid Approach to Domain-Specific Entity Linking [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The current state-of-the-art Entity Linking (EL) systems are geared towards corpora that are as heterogeneous as the Web, and therefore perform sub-optimally on domain-specific corpora.
Kamps, Jaap   +3 more
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THE QUESTION OF PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY

open access: yesHORIZON / Fenomenologicheskie issledovanija/ STUDIEN ZUR PHÄNOMENOLOGIE / STUDIES IN PHENOMENOLOGY / ÉTUDES PHÉNOMÉNOLOGIQUES
That Americans face a crisis in representative democracy is a matter of common knowledge. It is daily demonstrated by the paralysis of Congress to pass important legislation. Carl Schmitt, writing during a period of similar paralysis in the Weimar Republic, argued that the crisis is inherent in the very notion of parliamentary or representative ...
openaire   +1 more source

Parliamentary privileges and question of its violation

open access: yesAnusandhaan - Vigyaan Shodh Patrika, 2017
Parliamentary privilege is the protection of members of parliament and state legislature from judiciary for expressing their views and giving their opinion in the house.
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