A People S Parliament A Citizen Legislature

Author : Keith Sutherland,Ernest Callenbach,Michael Phillips
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781845405311

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A People's Parliament/A Citizen Legislature by Keith Sutherland,Ernest Callenbach,Michael Phillips Pdf

Two essays, printed back to back in a single volume, offer complementary solutions to the democratic deficit in Britain and the USA. In his book The Party's Over: Blueprint for a Very English Revolution (2004), Keith Sutherland questioned the role of the party in the post-ideological age and concluded that it would be better for government ministers to be appointed by headhunters and held to account by a people's parliament selected by lot. This completely revised and updated edition includes a study of the recent literature on deliberative polling. The American founders proposed that their legislature should be 'an exact portrait, in miniature, of the people at large'. Whether or not this was true at the time, the exponential growth of the population, skyrocketing campaign funding, the power of pressure groups, the grease of the pork-barrel and the dominance of charisma and demagoguery means that the US Constitution could now better be described as a kleptocracy. This pioneering essay proposes selecting Congressional members by random lot (leaving the Senate and Presidency unchanged) to 'restore a direct, powerful voice in Washington to the whole of America'. Originally published in 1985, this new edition includes an introduction by political scientist Peter Stone.

Author : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons,Robert Marleau,Camille Montpetit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1216 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Canada
ISBN : UCBK:C070750942

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House of Commons Procedure and Practice by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons,Robert Marleau,Camille Montpetit Pdf

This reference book is primarily a procedural work which examines the many forms, customs, and practices which have been developed and established for the House of Commons since Confederation in 1867. It provides a distinctive Canadian perspective in describing procedure in the House up to the end of the first session of the 36th Parliament in Sept. 1999. The material is presented with full commentary on the historical circumstances which have shaped the current approach to parliamentary business. Key Speaker's rulings and statements are also documented and the considerable body of practice, interpretation, and precedents unique to the Canadian House of Commons is amply illustrated. Chapters of the book cover the following: parliamentary institutions; parliaments and ministries; privileges and immunities; the House and its Members; parliamentary procedure; the physical & administrative setting; the Speaker & other presiding officers; the parliamentary cycle; sittings of the House; the daily program; oral & written questions; the process of debate; rules of order & decorum; the curtailment of debate; special debates; the legislative process; delegated legislation; financial procedures; committees of the whole House; committees; private Members' business; public petitions; private bills practice; and the parliamentary record. Includes index.

Author : John Gastil,Erik Olin Wright
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788736084

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Legislature by Lot by John Gastil,Erik Olin Wright Pdf

Democracy means rule by the people, but in practice even the most robust democracies delegate most rule making to a political class The gap between the public and its representatives might seem unbridgeable in the modern world, but Legislature by Lot examines an inspiring solution: a legislature chosen through “sortition”—the random selection of lay citizens. It’s a concept that has come to the attention of democratic reformers across the globe. Proposals for such bodies are being debated in Australia, Belgium, Iceland, the United Kingdom, and many other countries. Sortition promises to reduce corruption and create a truly representative legislature in one fell swoop. In Legislature by Lot, John Gastil and Erik Olin Wright make the case for pairing a sortition body with an elected chamber within a bicameral legislature. Gastil is a leading deliberative democracy scholar, and Wright a distinguished sociologist and editor of the Real Utopias series, of which this is a part. In this volume, they bring together critics and advocates of sortition who have studied ancient Athens, deliberative polling, political theory, social movements, and civic innovation. Without obscuring its limitations, the contributors offer a wide variety of ideas for how to implement sortition and examine its potential for reshaping modern politics. Legislature by Lot includes sixteen essays that respond to Gastil and Wright’s detailed proposal. Essays comparing sortition to contemporary reforms see it as a dramatic extension of deliberative “minipublics,” which gather random samples of citizens to weigh public policy dilemmas without being empowered to enact legislation. Another set of essays explores the democratic principles underlying sortition and elections and considers, for example, how a sortition body holds itself accountable to a public that did not elect it. The third set of essays considers alternative paths to democratic reform, which limit the powers of a sortition chamber or more quickly establish a pure sortition body. With contributions by Arash Abizadeh, Tom Arnold, Terrill Bouricius, Deven Burks, Lyn Carson, Dimitri Courant, Donatella della Porta, David M. Farrell, Andrea Felicetti, James S. Fishkin, Brett Hennig, Vincent Jacquet, Raphaël Kies, Tom Malleson, Jane Mansbridge, Christoph Niessen, David Owen, John Pitseys, Min Reuchamps, Yves Sintomer, Graham Smith, Jane Suiter, and Pierre-Étienne Vandamme.

Author : David Beetham
Publisher : Inter-Parliamentary Union
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 9789291423668

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Parliament and Democracy in the Twenty-first Century by David Beetham Pdf

Author : Canada. Library of Parliament. Research Branch,Gerald Schmitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Opposition (Political science)
ISBN : OCLC:682808748

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The Opposition in a Parliamentary System by Canada. Library of Parliament. Research Branch,Gerald Schmitz Pdf

Author : Marc van der Hulst
Publisher : Inter-Parliamentary Union
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Legislators
ISBN : 9789291420568

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The Parliamentary Mandate by Marc van der Hulst Pdf

Undersøgelse af parlamentsmandatet baseret på svar på IPU-spørgeskema fra 134 parlamenter. Svarene er sammenlignet systematisk med de respektive forfatninger, lovgivning og parlamentsforretningsordener.

Author : Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : OCLC:49089791

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The Constitution Act, 1982 by Canada Pdf

Author : Philip Norton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000095845

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The Impact of Legislatures by Philip Norton Pdf

The Impact of Legislatures brings together key articles and path-breaking scholarship published in The Journal of Legislative Studies during its first 25 years of publication, enabling the reader to make sense of the impact of legislatures in the modern world. Encompassing theory, comparative analysis, and county-based empirical studies, the volume examines the impact of legislatures as the key representative institutions of nations, addressing their relationships both to government and to the people. Legislatures are ubiquitous. They provide legitimacy to measures of public policy and to government. As such, they are key to how a nation is governed. But they do much more than confer legitimacy. They are generally multi-functional and functionally adaptable bodies, and are an essential link between citizen and government. However, scholarship on them has not been extensive and has often been descriptive and country- specific, limiting the capacity to make sense of them as a particular species of institution. The chapters in this volume reflect scholarship that helps the reader appreciate the significance of the place and consequences of legislatures, examining not only the relationship between the legislature and the executive, but also the oft-neglected relationship between legislatures and the people. Reflecting the growing body of research in the field of legislative studies, carried by The Journal of Legislative Studies since its inception in 1995, The Impact of Legislatures is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the impact of legislatures in the world today.

Author : John George Bourinot
Publisher : Montréal: Dawson Brothers
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Parliamentary practice
ISBN : UCAL:$B22344

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Parliamentary Procedure and Practice by John George Bourinot Pdf

Author : John V. Sullivan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Government publications
ISBN : PURD:32754073527669

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How Our Laws are Made by John V. Sullivan Pdf

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on the Constitution
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0104005408

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Parliament and the legislative process by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on the Constitution Pdf

Parliament and the legislative Process : 14th report of session 2003-04, Vol. 2: Evidence

Author : John Mark Keyes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Delegated legislation
ISBN : 0433460253

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Executive Legislation by John Mark Keyes Pdf

Author : Thomas Erskine May
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000114928

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A Treatise Upon the Law, Privileges, Proceedings and Usage of Parliament by Thomas Erskine May Pdf

Author : Robert Rohrschneider,Jacques Thomassen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192558688

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The Oxford Handbook of Political Representation in Liberal Democracies by Robert Rohrschneider,Jacques Thomassen Pdf

The Handbook of Political Representation in Liberal Democracies offers a state-of-the-art assessment of the functioning of political representation in liberal democracies. In 34 chapters the world's leading scholars on the various aspects of political representation address eight broad themes: The concept and theories of political representation, its history and the main requisites for its development; elite orientations and behavior; descriptive representation; party government and representation; non-electoral forms of political participation and how they relate to political representation; the challenges to representative democracy originating from the growing importance of non-majoritarian institutions and social media; the rise of populism and its consequences for the functioning of representative democracy; the challenge caused by economic and political globlization: what does it mean for the functioning of political representation at the national leval and is it possible to develop institutions of representative democracy at a level above the state that meet the normative criteria of representative democracy and are supported by the people? The various chapters offer a comprehensive review of the literature on the various aspects of political representation. The main organizing principle of the Handbook is the chain of political representation, the chain connecting the interests and policy preferences of the people to public policy via political parties, parliament, and government. Most of the chapters assessing the functioning of the chain of political representation and its various links are based on original comparative political research. Comparative research on political representation and its various subfields has developed dramatically over the last decades so that even ten years ago a Handbook like this would have looked totally different.

Author : Kelly Blidook
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780774821568

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Constituency Influence in Parliament by Kelly Blidook Pdf

Canada's parliamentary system has been characterized as "executive-dominant," with governance focused on the "centre," and scholars have paid little attention to the legislature and its members. But members of Parliament are, in fact, primary actors in governance. Constituency Influence in Parliament illuminates how MPs, in their pursuit of various goals in the legislature, play an important representative role in shaping policy. This critical volume offers the first full-scale examination of the rules and conduct of parliamentary Private Members' Business and of the electoral and policy motivations of those who hold the country's highest elected office. Kelly Blidook offers a thought-provoking assessment of the representational and policy dynamics that exist within the Canadian institutional structure. His examination of what MPs do, why they do it, and what effect it has, serves to resurrect the relevance of Canada's Parliament.