Representing Europe's Citizens? Electoral Institutions and the Failure of Parliamentary Representation

Scully, Roger, Farrell, David, Representing Europe's Citizens? Electoral Institutions and the Failure of Parliamentary Representation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp.xiii+230 RAE2008

A bibliography of British municipal history : including gilds and parliamentary representation / by Charles Gross.

Includes index.

A bibliography of British municipal history, including gilds and parliamentary representation.

Reprint of the 1897 ed., which was issued as v. 5 of the Harvard historical studies.

Parliamentary representation; further return to an address to His Majesty, dated 12 December, 1831; for copies of instructions given by the Secretary of State for the Home department with reference to Parliamentary representation; likewise copies of letters of reports received by the Secretary of state for the Home department in answer to such instructions. Reports from Commissioners on proposed division of counties and boundaries of boroughs ...

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A bibliography of British municipal history, including gilds and parliamentary representation.

3092 titles, classified, with index.

The aldermen of the city of London temp. Henry III.-1908. With notes on the parliamentary representation of the city, the aldermen and the livery companies, the aldermanic veto, aldermanic baronets and knights, etc.,

Vol. II has title: The aldermen of the city of London temp. Henry III.-1912.

O Colégio de Líderes : surgimento e evolução

Discute o funcionamento do Colégio de Líderes e seus efeitos sobre a atividade legislativa da Câmara dos Deputados. Para isso, a pesquisa se baseou em artigos científicos sobre o tema e documentos que demonstram o que motivou a criação do colegiado, como ele se reúne e de que modo ele colabora para a definição da pauta de votações do Plenário. Inclui entrevistas com figuras que participaram ativamente da criação e da evolução do Colégio de Líderes no cenário político. Descreve, ainda, de que forma a sua atuação limita a representatividade parlamentar e que soluções poderiam ser adotadas para amenizar esse conflito, já que, apesar de colaborar para a concentração de poderes no Congresso Nacional, esse órgão se tornou indispensável para a organização e agilidade dos trabalhos legislativos. Para ilustrar como se dá na prática a atuação do colegiado, procedeu-se a uma análise das reuniões realizadas no primeiro período da sessão legislativa ordinária de 2009, tudo com base em dados fornecidos pela Secretaria-Geral da Mesa da Câmara dos Deputados e em notícias da Agência Câmara divulgadas naquele semestre.

O colégio de líderes : surgimento e evolução

Discute o funcionamento do Colégio de Líderes e seus efeitos sobre a atividade legislativa da Câmara dos Deputados. Para isso, a pesquisa se baseou em artigos científicos sobre o tema e documentos que demonstram o que motivou a criação do colegiado, como ele se reúne e de que modo ele colabora para a definição da pauta de votações do plenário. Incluindo entrevistas com figuras que participaram ativamente da criação e da evolução do Colégio de Líderes no cenário político, este trabalho descreve de que forma a sua atuação limita a representatividade parlamentar e que soluções poderiam ser adotadas para amenizar esse conflito, já que, apesar de colaborar para a concentração de poderes no Congresso Nacional, esse órgão se tornou indispensável para a organização e agilidade dos trabalhos legislativos. Para ilustrar como se dá, na prática, a atuação do colegiado, procedeu-se a uma análise acerca das reuniões realizadas no primeiro período da sessão legislativa ordinária de 2009, tudo com base em dados fornecidos pela Secretaria-Geral da Mesa e em notícias da Agência Câmara divulgadas naquele semestre.

Equalising opportunities for women in electoral politics in Ireland: The Views of Women Members of Parliament

This paper examines the attitudes of women political elites in Ireland toward positive action initiatives that would assist in increasing women's legislative presence. An earlier study isolated family responsibilities and lack of finance as significant barriers for Irish women wishing to enter, and stay in, political life. In addition, scholarly and policy debates on boosting women's parliamentary representation focus on manipulating electoral or party selection rules along with strategies for making a political career more compatible with women's socially determined responsibilities. This paper examines how Irish women politicians respond to various suggestions for positive action in these three arenas: combining legislative and family responsibilities, funding a political campaign and getting elected. The paper highlights the broad consensus among women politicians, irrespective of party, self-interest, or length of service, favoring certain positive action initiatives, as well as their reluctance to support other options. It also illustrates the complexity of implementing some of these reforms. In addition, the paper emphasizes how cultural expectations and values act to inhibit women's political agency.

Accessing the Institutions: The Road to the Socialist-Green Alliance in Spain

This article traces the strategic re-orientation of the Spanish Greens (Los Verdes) from a position of hostility toward the Socialists (PSOE) to one of collaboration that allowed them to gain parliamentary representation in the 2004 national and European elections. Drawing upon insights from the party politics literature, it schematizes a model and then proceeds to use it to provide a diachronic account of factionalist conflict within the ranks of the Greens and their close competitors, the structure of political opportunities, exogenous factors and their interrelationship, up to the point of the electoral agreement between the two parties. In concludes by highlighting the role played by the Madrid bombings in bringing the PSOE back into power and offers some projections about the future institutional access of the Greens.

Gender and Welfare States in East Asia: Confucianism or Equality?

Is a Confucian cultural climate hostile to gender equality in families and public decision-making? What is the impact of gender equality legislation in East Asia? Approaches to these welfare regimes have ignored gender, while gendered accounts of welfare have neglected East Asia. Comparisons with Western welfare states show strong economies with life expectancy in Japan and South Korea above those of Western social democracies but in contrast there are extremely large gender gaps in employment, earning, unpaid work and parliamentary representation and conjoined with this low fertility rates and and minimal public social spending on childcare and early education.

In this volume, contributors address questions about gender equality in a Confucian context across a wide and varied social policy landscape, from Korea and Taiwan, where Confucian culture is deeply embedded, through China, with its transformations from Confucianism to communism and back, to the mixed cultural environments of Hong Kong and Japan. Overall, the collections asks: Has East Asia's rapid economic transformation been accompanied by social and cultural transformation?

Political Extremism in the 1920s and 1930s: Do German Lessons Generalize?

We examine the impact of the Great Depression on the share of votes for right-wing extremists in elections in the 1920s and 1930s. We confirm the existence of a link between political extremism and economic hard times as captured by growth or contraction of the economy. What mattered was not simply growth at the time of the election, but cumulative growth performance. The impact was greatest in countries with relatively short histories of democracy, with electoral systems that created low hurdles to parliamentary representation, and which had been on the losing side in World War I.

A consagração dos naturais

“One cannot analyse a legal concept outside the economic and socio-cultural context in which it was applied” – such is the longstanding thesis of António Manuel Hespanha. I argue that Hespanha’s line of argument relative to legal concepts is also applicable, mutatis mutandis, to legal agents: the magistrates, advocates, notaries, solicitors and clerks who lived and exercised their professions in a given time and place. The question, then, is how to understand the actions of these individuals in particular contexts – more specifically in late 18th century and 19th century Goa. The main goal of the present thesis was to comprehend how westernized and Catholic Goan elite of Brahman and Chardó origin who provided the majority of Goan legal agents used Portuguese law to their own advantage. It can be divided into five key points. The first one is the importance of the Constitutional liberalism regime (with all the juridical, judicial, administrative and political changes that it has brought, namely the parliamentary representation) and its relations with the perismo – a local political and ideological tendency nurtured by Goan native Catholic elite. It was explored in the chapter 2 of this thesis. The second key point is the repeated attempts made by Goan native Catholic elite to implement the jury system in local courts. It was studied in the chapter 3. Chapter 4 aims to understand the participation of the native Catholic elite in the codification process of the uses and traditions of the indigenous peoples in New Conquests territory. The fourth key point is the involvement of those elites not only in the conflict of civil and ecclesiastical jurisdictions but also in the succession of the Royal House of Sunda. It was analyzed in the chapter 5. The functions of an advocate could be delegated to someone who, though lacking a law degree, possessed sufficient knowledge to perform this role satisfactorily. Those who held a special licence to practice law were known as provisionários (from provisão, or licence, as opposed to the letrados, or lettered). In the Goa of the second half of the 18th century and the 19th century, such provisionários were abundant, the vast majority coming from the native Catholic elite. The characteristics of those provisionários, the role played by the Portuguese letrados in Goa and the difficult relations between both groups were studied in the chapter 6.