Constituency And The Analysis Of Legislative Politics
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Author | : Kelly Blidook |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0774821566 |
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 | : Shane Martin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 785 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0199653011 |
Legislatures are arguably the most important political institution in modern democracies. The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies, written by some of the most distinguished legislative scholars in political science, provides a comprehensive and up-to-date description and critical assessment of the state of the art in this key area.
Author | : United States. Congress |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1324 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Warren E. Miller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1993-08-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780829036916 |
Author | : Jennifer Nicoll Victor |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 1011 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0190228210 |
Politics is intuitively about relationships, but until recently the network perspective has not been a dominant part of the methodological paradigm that political scientists use to study politics. This volume is a foundational statement about networks in the study of politics.
Author | : John V. Sullivan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael L. Mezey |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780742547698 |
Although we tend to use the terms "representative democracy" and "democracy" as synonyms, Michael Mezey maintains that they are not. Democracy means that the people govern; representative democracy means that the people elect others to govern for them. This raises the question of the extent to which representative government approximates democracy-a question that turns on the relationship between representatives and those whom they represent. Mezey reviews the literature on the meaning of representation and its relationship to issues of citizen control. In the empirical sections that follow, he draws on data from the United States Congress and from legislatures outside the United States to discuss the extent to which the composition of a legislature reflects the demography of its nation. The author also examines a legislature's various political and economic interests and the extent to which representatives are responsive to specific requests for assistance from their constituents and to constituent opinions on public policy questions. He further looks at the effect that interest groups, political parties, and election systems have on the relationship between representatives and their constituents. Finally, Mezey addresses the criticisms that have been leveled against representative institutions: that they are slow to act, inefficient and uninformed when they do act, that they are too inclined to do what is popular rather than what is necessary and, conversely, that their members are too removed from the opinions of their constituents and therefore unfaithful to their democratic obligation to respond to the wishes of those whom they represent. Rich in thoughtful analysis, Representative Democracy incorporates normative, empirical and comparative perspectives on representation. It is perfectly suited for use in an upper-level course on the legislative process or Congress.
Author | : Woodrow Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Executive power |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Lawrence Korey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Legislative power |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Oregon. Office of the Secretary of State |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Oregon |
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