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5. The UK Parliament

open access: yes, 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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The UK Parliament and performance

International Review of Administrative Sciences, 2007
Many governments across OECD countries now produce substantial amounts of performance information. This movement has increasingly become known variously as output- or outcome-based budgeting or governance. This article focuses on the important question of how legislatures are responding to this development. Using the case of the UK's public performance
Talbot, Carole   +2 more
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WhatTheySaid: Enriching UK Parliament Debates with Semantic Web. [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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6. The UK Parliament

2020
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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The debating parliament of the UK

open access: yes, 2012
Hagedorn U. The debating parliament of the UK. In: Hagedorn U, Müller E, Podes S, Riedel H, Tschirner M, Volkert T, eds. Sozialkunde kompakt. Berufliche Oberschule in Bayern (FOS/BOS).
Hagedorn, Udo   +6 more
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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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