Parliaments in the modern world / Philip Laundy.
By: Laundy, Philip.
Material type: BookPublisher: Aldershot, Hants : Dartmouth : Gower, 1989Description: xiv, 166 p. ; 24 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 1855210428 .Subject(s): Legislative bodies | Comparative governmentDDC classification: 328.4Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 328.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00042056 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The diversity of parliaments -- Electoral systems -- Parliament within the structure of government -- Presiding officers -- Parliaments at work -- Committee systems -- Parliamentary immunities -- Staff and services -- Parliament and its public relations -- Conclusion.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction: transition, consolidation and parliamentary institutionalization
- The institutional origins of the modern Czech and Slovak parliaments
- Parliaments, parties and electorate: organizing representation
- Executive-legislative relations: parliaments and governments
- Executive-legislative relations: presidents
- Inside the parliaments: parliamentary parties
- Conclusion: growing apart?
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index