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A Pragmatic Analysis of Responses in Malaysian Parliamentary Discourse
Journal of Pragmatics Research, 2022 This study employs the framework of responses proposed by Harris (1991), the notion of implicature as defined by Thomas (1995), and the dimensions of resistance introduced by Clayman (2001) to examine the types of responses in Malaysian Parliamentary ...
Najah Zainal Abidin, Jariah Mohd Jan
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Party Control and Responsiveness
Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, 2022 Different parliamentary activities allow Members of Parliament (MPs) varying amounts of autonomy. Previous studies have shown that, in parliamentary systems with strong parties and party-centered electoral rules, MPs have limited room for crossing the ...
Martin Søyland
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, 2019 Abstract Do political parties increasingly engage in non-legislative parliamentary activities? To what extent is the range of issues addressed through parliamentary questioning becoming more diverse? Is overtime change in issue attention during question time incremental or rather stable and occasionally interspersed with radical changes?
Borghetto, Enrico +1 more
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Identifying evolving priorities in national river governance from Parliamentary Questions
Water Policy, 2022 Rivers and their surrounding land provide resources and services that result in trade-offs requiring legislative and institutional interventions, for which the perspectives of law-policymakers and their societal values and political expediencies play a ...
Adani Azhoni +2 more
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Revista de Administração Pública, 2020 One of the functions of parliamentary questions in modern legislatures is to pressure executives to pay attention to specific issues. But can these questions effectively influence executive decisions?
Enrico Borghetto +2 more
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A Comparative Study on the Functions of Political Parties in Parliamentary Oversight [PDF]
پژوهشنامه حقوق تطبیقی, 2023 Parliamentary oversight is one of the most important consequences of separation of power system which has a great role in regulating power and protecting the rights of citizens. However, several factors and tools saffect this supervision. Considering the
Seyed Ahmad Habibnezhad +2 more
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Parliamentary functions portrayed on European parliaments' websites [PDF]
, 2009 This article uses data from a pilot study on the websites of 15 parliaments in Europe to identify which parliamentary functions are portrayed on these websites.
Leston-Bandeira, Cristina
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Parliamentary debates as a genre of political discourse in the Republic of South Ossetia [PDF]
Актуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики, 2019 The article is devoted to certain peculiarities of actualization of speech strategies in the genre of parliamentary debates in the Republic of South Ossetia.
Jioeva Varvilina P.
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Scrutinising the secret state: parliamentary oversight of the intelligence and security agencies [PDF]
, 2010 This article considers the growing parliamentary scrutiny of the intelligence and security agencies. It raises a number of questions about the role and effectiveness of the Intelligence and Security Committee, Parliament and ...
Bochel, Hugh +2 more
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The 2009 European Election in Italy: National or European? [PDF]
, 2014 In June 2009, European citizens voted in the European Parliamentary elections. Despite the relevance of the election, turnout across countries was particularly low. In Italy, too, abstention is growing and this paper aims to explain why. Traditionally,
Serricchio, Fabio
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