Constituency Influence In Parliament

Author : Kelly Blidook
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,9 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.

Author : Allan Kornberg,William Mishler
Publisher : Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015008738471

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Influence in Parliament, Canada by Allan Kornberg,William Mishler Pdf

Author : European Centre for Political Studies
Publisher : Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt., U.S.A. : Gower
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015009352777

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Representatives of the People? by European Centre for Political Studies Pdf

Author : Royce Koop,Heather Bastedo,Kelly Blidook
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774837002

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Representation in Action by Royce Koop,Heather Bastedo,Kelly Blidook Pdf

Canadian members of Parliament (MPs) are often dismissed as “trained seals,” helpless to do anything other than take commands from party leaders. Representation in Action challenges this view of MPs and shows that the ways they represent their constituents are as diverse as Canada itself. Royce Koop, Heather Bastedo, and Kelly Blidook examine the activities MPs engage in to represent their ridings and determine what accounts for differences in style and agency. Drawing on original observational and interview research and featuring detailed in-depth case studies, this is the first book using intensive participant-observation methods to study Canadian MPs and representation.

Author : Kelly Blidook
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774821599

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Constituency Influence in Parliament by Kelly Blidook Pdf

In contrast with most literature on Canadian politics, this book resurrects the relevance of Canada's Parliament by examining what MPs do, why they do it, and what effect it has. Constituency Influence in Parliament examines the rules and conduct of Private Members' Business to assess the complex relationship between constituency representation and policy proposals. This revealing study shows that Members of Parliament pursue various types of goals in the legislature � not all of which focus upon parties or leaders � and each MP plays an important representative role in shaping policy.

Author : John Edgar Jackson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674165403

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Constituencies and Leaders in Congress by John Edgar Jackson Pdf

This study may be the most sophisticated statistical study of legislative voting now in print. The author asks why legislators, especially U.S. senators, vote as they do. Are they influenced by their constituencies, party, committee leaders, the President? By taking a relatively short time span, the years 1961 to 1963, the author is able to give us answers far beyond any we have had before, and some rather surprising ones at that. Constituencies played a different, but more important role in senators' voting than earlier studies have shown. Senators appeared to be responding both to the opinion held by their constituents on different issues and to the intensity with which these opinions were held. On the interrelation of constituencies and party, Mr. Jackson finds that Republicans and southern Democrats were particularly influenced by their voters. The clearest cases of leadership influence were among the non-southern members of the Democratic Party. Western Republicans, on the other hand, rejected the leadership of party members for that of committee leaders. Finally, on Presidential leadership, Mr. Jackson shows that John F. Kennedy influenced senators only during the first two years of his administration. All of these findings challenge conventional wisdom and are bound to influence future work in legislative behavior.

Author : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons,Robert Marleau,Camille Montpetit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1216 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Marc van der Hulst
Publisher : Inter-Parliamentary Union
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Elisabeth Gidengil,Heather Bastedo
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774828284

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Canadian Democracy from the Ground Up by Elisabeth Gidengil,Heather Bastedo Pdf

Canada is often held up as an example of a healthy democracy. However, the Canadian public is less enthusiastic about the way our democracy works. This first-of-a-kind book approaches the “democratic deficit” from the perspective of everyday Canadians and assesses the performance of Parliament and the media in light of their perceptions and expectations. In doing so, a number of chapters highlight the disjuncture between perceptions and performance. Canadian Democracy from the Ground Up is essential for anyone who would like to learn how to build a better democracy – one that meets the expectations of the Canadian public.

Author : Donald Savoie
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442659292

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Breaking the Bargain by Donald Savoie Pdf

Canada's machinery of government is out of joint. In Breaking the Bargain, Donald J. Savoie reveals how the traditional deal struck between politicians and career officials that underpins the workings of our national political and administrative process is today being challenged. He argues that the role of bureaucracy within the Canadian political machine has never been properly defined, that the relationship between elected and permanent government officials is increasingly problematic, and that the public service cannot function if it is expected to be both independent of, and subordinate to, elected officials. While the public service attempts to define its own political sphere, the House of Commons is also in flux: the prime minister and his close advisors wield ever more power, and cabinet no longer occupies the policy ground to which it is entitled. Ministers, who have traditionally been able to develop their own roles, have increasingly lost their autonomy. Federal departmental structures are crumbling, giving way to a new model that eschews boundaries in favour of sharing policy and program space with outsiders. The implications of this functional shift are profound, having a deep impact on how public policies are struck, how government operates, and, ultimately, the capacity for accountability.

Author : David Beetham
Publisher : Inter-Parliamentary Union
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 9789291423668

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

Author : Gregory Conti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108428736

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Parliament the Mirror of the Nation by Gregory Conti Pdf

The notion of 'representative democracy' seems unquestionably familiar today, but how did the Victorians understand democracy, parliamentary representation, and diversity?

Author : Alex Marland
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774864992

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Whipped by Alex Marland Pdf

Canadians often see politicians as little more than trained seals who vote on command and repeat robotic talking points. Politicians are torn by dilemmas of loyalty to party versus loyalty to voters. Whipped examines the hidden ways that political parties exert control over elected members of legislatures. Drawing on extensive interviews with politicians and staffers across Canada, award-winning author Alex Marland explains why Members of Parliament and provincial legislators toe the party line, and shows how party discipline has expanded into message discipline. This book exposes how democracy works in our age of instant communication and political polarization. Whipped is a must-read for anyone interested in the real world of Canadian politics.

Author : F. Leslie Seidle,David Campbell Docherty
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0773525084

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Reforming Parliamentary Democracy by F. Leslie Seidle,David Campbell Docherty Pdf

Insightful analyses of recent reforms to parliamentary institutions and governance in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Parliamentary government combines stability and dynamism. Its continuity is rooted in enduring principles such as citizen representation and accountability to the legislature. But parliamentary systems have evolved in response to changes in the societies they govern and in citizens' views about democratic practices. In Reforming Parliamentary Democracy the authors demonstrate how, in their respective countries, parliamentary governments have combined stability with the capacity to adapt to such changes. They provide insightful analyses of recent reforms to parliamentary institutions and governance in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264183636

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DAC Guidelines and Reference Series Accountability and Democratic Governance Orientations and Principles for Development by OECD Pdf

There is growing recognition of the need for new approaches to the ways in which donors support accountability, but no broad agreement on what changed practice looks like. This publication aims to provide more clarity on the emerging practice.