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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"National parliament"”.
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Hindu nationalism, electoral politics, and the rise of the Bharatiya Janata party in India
… become the leading opposition party in India's national parliament. The BJP's powerful "Hindutva" ideology, based on the idea of a Hindu nation, has propelled the party to the forefront of Indian politics, and poses a major challenge to India's secular democracy. The central argument of this …
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All dressed up with nowhere to go? the rapid transformation of the South African parliamentary committee system (in comparative theoretical perspective)
… a journey of almost mythical proportions. The national parliament, in Cape Town, lies at the heart of the country's new democratic dispensation. Those who were fortunate enough to be present on 9 May 1994 to see the National Assembly elect the country's first black President, Nelson Mandela, …
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The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism: Any Imperative for participation therein and the implementation of its recommendations by the South African Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Justice and Constitutional Development (PCJ&CD)?
Despite being marginalised for years within international human rights law, the UN recently acknowledged the significant role that national parliaments can play in the international human rights framework, particularly through the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review mechanism. …
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The Federal Evolution of Imperial Germany (1871-1918)
… organisational nature largely undefined. The new national state possessed only very few institutions and competences. There was not even a national government. The Reich completely depended on the constituent states. This weakness was no coincidence. Bismarck’s plan was to secure the dominance of …
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Essays on the Political Economy of Democratization and Democratic Backsliding
… Using novel roll-call data from the Norwegian national parliament, I study whether MPs that represented more rapidly industrializing districts were more likely to vote for suffrage extensions over the 1891 to 1906 period. For causal identification, I exploit the fact that Norwegian districts …
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Essays in political economy of media and communication
… by exploiting random seating in Iceland's national Parliament. Since almost all voting is along party lines, we use a text-based measure of language similarity to proxy for the similarity of beliefs between any two politicians. Using this measure, we find an in-coalition effect: language …
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Essays in development and political economy
… by exploiting random seating in Iceland's national Parliament. Since almost all voting is along party lines, we use a text-based measure of language similarity to proxy for the similarity of beliefs between any two politicians. Using this measure, we find an in-coalition effect: language …