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5. The UK Parliament

2017
This chapter focuses on three principal issues concerning the UK Parliament. First, it addresses the democratic credentials of Parliament. Second, it considers Parliament’s legislative role. Third, it examines Parliament’s powers. The chapter shows that, at least in constitutional theory, Parliament is ‘sovereign’, meaning that its authority to ...
Mark Elliott, Robert Thomas
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Working or shirking? Expenses and attendance in the UK Parliament

Public Choice, 2010
This paper studies the determinants of MPs’ expense claims and of their attendance at Parliamentary meetings. Using a multiple regression framework, we correlate the expenses with three sets of variables: constituency characteristics, political variables, and individual characteristics.
Besley T, LARCINESE, VALENTINO
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The European Parliament and the UK Parliament: A Relationship in Foreign Policy

Parliamentary History, 2016
It is often argued that the crucial democratic body of the European Union (EU) is the European parliament. Over time, the European parliament's role has increased from being a consultative body to one which has an institutionalised co‐decision authority in EU lawmaking.
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A strong voice for vets in UK parliaments

Veterinary Record, 2020
Mandy Ryan , head of media and public affairs at BVA, gives the final update on BVA’s political engagement activity ahead of the parliamentary recess.
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3. The Legislative Supremacy of the UK Parliament

2019
This chapter examines the constitutional principles of parliamentary supremacy. They are supported by political constitutionalists but regarded with skepticism by legal constitutionalists. The discussions then turn to parliamentary supremacy as a set of rules; the source of parliamentary supremacy; whether an Act of Parliament can bind future ...
Andrew Le Sueur, Maurice Sunkin, Jo Eric Khushal Murkens   +2 more
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Brexit and the UK Parliament: Challenges and Opportunities

2019
Brexit has been dominating the UK Parliament’s activities as negotiations on the terms of the UK’s departure from the European Union (EU) have been taking place. Parliament is a primary venue for members of Parliament (MPs) to express preferences and attempt to alter the Brexit process.
Philip Lynch, Richard Whitaker, Adam Cygan   +2 more
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UK Parliament holds hearings on climategate

Physics Today, 2010
UK Parliament holds hearings on climategate UK Parliament holds hearings on ...
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UK Defence planning and the new parliament

The RUSI Journal, 1992
Following the general election, defence expenditure will once again come under scrutiny. What limited debate there has been on the subject thus far has tended to approach defence policy more in terms of economics rather than strategy. David Dunn here makes an appeal for the reversal of this disturbing trend, highlighting the fallacies of using ...
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WhatTheySaid: Enriching UK Parliament Debates with Semantic Web. [PDF]

, 2014
To improve the transparency of politics, the UK Parliament Debate archives have been published online for a long time. However there is still a lack of efficient way to deeply analysis the debate data. WhatTheySaid is an initiative to solve this problem by applying natural language processing and semantic Web technologies to enrich UK Parliament Debate
Li, Yunjia, Ding, Chaohai, Wald, Mike
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Trust, public engagement and UK Parliament

What is the relationship between public engagement activities and public trust? What makes different types of engagement methods effective, and how can they engage the public and impact trust levels?
Lily Gibbs, Natasha Mutebi
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