Pub Date : 2024-04-26DOI: 10.1080/13572334.2024.2345035
Matt Beech, Mark Bevir
In this article, we argue, following the interpretive approach, that parliamentarians’ beliefs, and the intellectual traditions on which they draw matter. Parliamentary behaviour and legislative pr...
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Pub Date : 2024-04-24DOI: 10.1080/13572334.2024.2345036
E. Crewe
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Pub Date : 2024-04-18DOI: 10.1080/13572334.2024.2335716
Hallbera West
Political parties are important actors for making the chain of delegation in parliamentary systems work in practice, but less constructive in securing the corresponding chain of accountability that...
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Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1080/13572334.2024.2335711
Hamid Ghany
The judgment in the Miller case in the UK in September 2019 which overturned the decision of Prime Minister Boris Johnson to advise the Queen to prorogue Parliament is not applicable in the Commonw...
{"title":"Prorogation in Commonwealth Caribbean countries: an analysis of the relevance of the Miller decision","authors":"Hamid Ghany","doi":"10.1080/13572334.2024.2335711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2024.2335711","url":null,"abstract":"The judgment in the Miller case in the UK in September 2019 which overturned the decision of Prime Minister Boris Johnson to advise the Queen to prorogue Parliament is not applicable in the Commonw...","PeriodicalId":501222,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Legislative Studies","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140571621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-25DOI: 10.1080/13572334.2024.2330262
Thomas Larue, Asmir Hajdarevic
Committees’ use of their right to initiate parliament decisions have notably evolved under Sweden’s unicameral parliament. Since 2011, initiatives have increasingly served as a political instrument...
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Pub Date : 2024-02-13DOI: 10.1080/13572334.2024.2313310
Francesco Bromo, Paolo Gambacciani, Marco Improta
What happens in a state of emergency that is prolonged and unrelated to security with respect to the powers afforded to or used by the executive, checks and balances, and cooperation between the go...
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Pub Date : 2024-01-22DOI: 10.1080/13572334.2023.2299157
Yonatan T. Fessha
In countries that have adopted a federal or quasi-federal system of government, second chambers could be designed to serve as an important mechanism of intrastate federalism, channelling subnationa...
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Pub Date : 2024-01-17DOI: 10.1080/13572334.2023.2287347
Michael Imre, Alejandro Ecker
Parliamentary speech is an important and highly visible feature of legislatures in democracies. Time in parliament is scarce and the allocation of floor time is characterised by largely incompatibl...
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Pub Date : 2024-01-08DOI: 10.1080/13572334.2023.2298123
Francisca Reyes-Mendy, Stefan Gelcich Crossley, Valentina Opazo-Pina
Exploring who participates in Congress committee hearings is key to assess how diverse and representative these spaces are. This article focuses on participation in Congress committees during the d...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-29DOI: 10.1080/13572334.2023.2298127
Edward Shepherd
The paper examines the narratives and traditions that converged in the debates that raged in the House of Commons in response to the UK government’s controversial proposals for planning reform in 2...
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