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Showing 1 to 20 of 1849 for “"Legislative"”.
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KwaZulu Legislative Assembly
… the controversy ranging about legislatures and legislative assemblies and the enormous range of possible roles of the KLA in development as well as the constitutional development of KwaZulu. This study reveals the following:- KwaZulu Legislative Assembly has been a success for the past 16 years. …
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Legislative Language for Success
<p>Legislative committee meetings are an integral part of the lawmaking process for local and state bills. The testimony presented during these meetings is a large factor in the outcome of the proposed bill. This research uses Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning techniques to analyze …
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Legislative commitment in Congress
… by adopting intense, specialized, and consistent legislative agendas, and I identify policy wonks with a novel measure of legislative commitment based on these three components and using MCs’ slates of bill sponsorships from 1989 through 2008. Building on previous work on legislative …
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Congressional primaries and legislative behavior
… data from the 1998-2008 election cycles and legislative behavior data from the 105th - 110th Congresses, my analyses compare the legislative behavior of MCs with and without primary opponents, the behavior of legislators before and during the primary election, and MCs’ behavior across …
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Legislative Effectiveness in Brazil: the Role of Legislative Member organizations in the Chamber of Deputies
<p>What explains variation in legislative effectiveness where party systems are fragmented and not policy-oriented? Why and how are some legislators in these contexts able to move their proposals through the legislative process and into law, while others fail to do so?</p><p>Recent literature on …
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WwwPrivacygov: A constitutional and legislative review
… a qualitative analysis, constitutional and legislative aspects will be brought forth to challenge the idea that self-regulation is feasible within the growing cyber nation. Final analysis will bring forward new policy proposals to counter current problems in this virtual world.
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Women's Legislative Representation: Attitudes and Institutions
… are combined in an attempt to explain women’s legislative representation, in the single or lower house, cross-nationally, from 1995 to 2020. Attitudes toward women as leaders, and two types of political institutions: electoral systems and gender quotas, are described and tested quantitatively …
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Predicting the Vote Using Legislative Speech
… is that verbal utterances made during the legislative process by elected representatives can indicate their intent on a future vote, and therefore can be used to automatically predict said vote to a significant degree. In this research, we examine thousands of hours of legislative …
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Legislative need for specific business records
This item was digitized by the Internet Archive. Thesis (M.B.A.)--Boston University
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Presidential-Legislative Relations and Presidential Scandal
Studies on Presidential-Executive relations fails to empirically analyze whether or not modern presidential scandal can impact presidential-congressional relations. Meinke and Anderson (2001) find that presidential scandal impacts House of Representatives voting behavior on key votes cited by …
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Legislative Oversight Processes in U.S. States
… levels of professionalism. Measures of state legislative professionalism typically include metrics such as the number of legislative staff, legislative session length, and legislator compensation. This research considers the influence of variability in levels of legislative professionalism on …
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Unmarried mothers: the legislative context in Ireland, 1921
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Business rescue for Zambia: suggestions for legislative reform
A Company is an integral part of the community in which it does business as it impacts on that community and the economy of the country as a whole. Consequently, the failure of that company not only affects that community but also the shareholders, suppliers, employees and customers. The company …
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Faith-Based Organizations and Legislative Advocacy: A Qualitative Inquiry
… How do faith-based organizations engage in legislative advocacy in the Commonwealth of Virginia? What meaning do the organizations assign to their advocacy activities? The inquiry's findings, congruent with interpretive research assumptions, are tentative in nature and suggest that while the …
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Explaining the Strength of Legislative Committees: A Comparative Analysis
<p>By what means can legislative committees exercise influence on policy outputs? How and why do committees in different countries differ in their abilities to do so? This dissertation argues that legislative committee power is a multidimensional concept. Committee procedures can be distinguished …
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The Legislative and Judicial History of The Thirteenth Amendment
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T17:25:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0002070.pdf: 18705227 bytes, checksum: d16212160968f70095fed5e42859f46b (MD5) Previous issue date: 1950
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Assessing news coverage of the South African Legislative laws
… to examine the news coverage of South Africa’s legislative laws passed by the Parliament, by looking at the coverage of print media using qualitative content analysis. The thesis aims to understand the dominant messages being conveyed within the news texts and reader comments, specifically whose …
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Shareholder appraisal rights in Swaziland - suggestions for legislative reform
As a general rule in company law, the business of the company is conducted based on the votes of the majority of shareholders in that company. In certain instances however, the majority might take decisions that are detrimental to the minority shareholders of the company and therefore it is …
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The UNCITRAL Legislative Guide, Model Law and Three Country Comparison
… secured transactions regime. In addition to the Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions, the UNCITRAL recently started drafting a model law. This thesis will focus on the advantages and disadvantages of model law reform. The reforms in Belgium, New Zealand and Australia show that model law …
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