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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"House of Commons"”.
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Deliberating environmental policy: information seeking and use in Canada's House of Commons standing committees
… case study examines the information practices of Canada’s elected federal representatives who work together within House of Commons standing committees to deliberate environmental issues. We now have new methods to access data on government activities due to the availability of more structured …
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An Analysis of Arguments in the Canadian House of Commons on the Issue Ofnuclear Weapons for Canada
… in DSpace on 2014-12-10T17:03:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7020992.pdf: 12871751 bytes, checksum: 5c47fdad8827730cba30df272c5cda21 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1970
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Do committees make a difference? : an examination of the viscosity of legislative committees in the British House of Commons
Public bill committees in the British House of Commons play a crucial role in the scrutiny of government legislation. The reform of the bill committee system in 2006 and the introduction of oral evidence taking as a standard procedure significantly raised the profile of this stage of the …
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Standing Up for the Nations? Devolution and the Changing Dynamics of Territorial Representation in the UK House of Commons, 1992-2019
… Kingdom’s component territorial units in the House of Commons. More specifically, it examines how national and regional interests are fed into parliamentary proceedings, how this varies across different territorial, political and institutional contexts, and how the role of the sub-state …
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A person of letters in Parliament : Edward Bulwer-Lytton's career as a member of the House of Commons and a minister of government 1831-1866
… received today as a prolific but minor author of the early and middle Victorian periods, was an accomplished politician and orator and acknowledged so by his contemporaries. The context and content of Bulwer's work in Parliament and in the Cabinet provide insight not only into Bulwer himself, a …
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The marriage dialogue
Using the contemporary example of same-sex marriage, the author uses his first-hand experience as a Member of Parliament to examine the "dialogue" theory of Charter of Rights and Freedoms politics and decision-making role of legislators. The dialogue between courts, legislatures and Canadians is …
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Political behaviour in the United Kingdom: An examination of Members of Parliament and Voters
… behaviour among representatives in the UK's House of Commons and voting behaviour in the 2016 EU Referendum. I show that the UK parliamentary system's reliance on strong party discipline has important adverse consequences for public approval. Firstly, I show how high-salience debates such …
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Inequality in Political Representation
… to vote in elections has been a core attribute of their democratic institutions for decades, and in some cases over a century. However, the political experience of many of these very countries over the past decade have often alternated between apathy and frustration in these democratic …
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Imperial precedents in the Home Rule Debates, 1867-1914
The cause of Home Rule was the primary focus of mainstream Irish nationalism from the mid-1870s until the Irish parliamentary party’s electoral collapse at the 1918 general election. The Home Rule movement’s predecessor as the dominant force in Irish nationalism was Daniel O’Connell’s repeal …
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Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in Canada: Following Bill C-14 through Parliament
This thesis explores the Government of Canada’s legislative response to the Carter v. Canada (Attorney General) ruling. More specifically, this thesis analyzes the major issues that afflicted Bill C-14, or An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical …
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The Times and the Manchester Guardian’s editorial perspectives on Irish Home Rule and the adoption of referendum debates during the British constitutional crisis: December 1910-August 1911
This thesis is a critical examination of the editorial coverage of referendum and Irish Home Rule issues as reported by both The Times and the Manchester Guardian during the closing stages of the British constitutional crisis of 1911. The traditional and conventional constraints on the House of …
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Arguing for the Death Penalty: Making the Retentionist Case in Britain, 1945-1979
There is a small body of historiography that analyses the abolition of capital punishment in Britain. There has been no detailed study of those who opposed abolition and no history of the entire post-war abolition process from the Criminal Justice Act 1948 to permanent abolition in 1969. This …
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Race to the Bottom? : A Critical Analysis of Canada's Modern Slavery in Supply Chain Legislation
This study critically examines the Government of Canada's conceptualization of transnational corporate accountability and exploitative labour in its legislative response to modern slavery in global supply chains. With a primary focus on the government's recently proposed Bill S-216: Modern Slavery …
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The Redecoration and Alteration of Castletown House By Lady Louisa Conolly 1759-76
Castletown House, Celbridge, County Kildare is the largest and finest palladian1 country house in Ireland. Its building in 1722 marked the beginning of the palladian invasion of Ireland and the house is contemporary with the earliest examples of palladianism in England. The elegance and formality …
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The speltermen of Swansea.
This is a study of the spelter (also known as zinc) industry in the Swansea area between 1860 and 1930. A large histiography of the contribution of copper, and later tin and steel, to the Swansea area exists but spelter is virtually ignored despite Swansea being the centre for British production at …
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'Generous and lofty sympathies': the Kensington Society, the 1866 women's suffrage petition and the development of mid-victorian feminism
The women's suffrage petition presented to the House of Commons in June 1866 is credited with being the first move in the British campaign. Yet although given a pivotal position in the women's movement, it and its organisation have received scant attention. This thesis examines the origins of this …
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Relationship between the executive and legislative authority in South Africa with reference to the role of the leader of government business in the legislative and oversight processes
… The study focuses on the separation of powers in a single party-dominant system and examines the role of the Leader of Government Business in parliamentary processes. The Leader of Government Business is appointed by the President in terms of Section 91(4) of the Constitution. The …
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Inhabiting liberalism: politics, culture, and the spaces of masculine professionalism, 1823-1903
… Liberalism: Politics, Culture, and the Spaces of Masculine Professionalism, 1823-1903 investigates the physical, social, and epistemological spaces of Victorian liberalism. It argues that liberalism is locatable and that its locations matter. By locatable, I mean that the tenets of liberalism—a …
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