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A ‘flawless’ constitutional engineering project in Turkey: regime transformation through constitutional amendments of 2007, 2010, and 2017 The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Ömer Faruk Gençkaya, Seda Dunbay
A functional legislature is very vital for democratisation. During the time of democratic consolidation, parliament changes from its primary roles of oversight, representation and legislation into ...
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Review: ODIHR Guidelines on Democratic Lawmaking for Better Laws The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Victor Marcel Pinheiro
Published in The Theory and Practice of Legislation (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Indonesia parliamentary reform and legislation quality backsliding phenomenon: case of Indonesia post reformasi The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Bagus Hermanto, Asrul Ibrahim Nur, Made Subawa
Legislative quality and parliamentary reforms are inseparable prominent agendas that sought the implementation of democracy and rule of law into parliamentary functions and role to support their ex...
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Parliamentary inquiries as minority rights: are legal transplants possible? The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Zsolt Szabó
Committees of inquiry, in related literature, are often called as ‘sharpest sword’ of the opposition. However, this sharpness is highly dependent on how much rights the opposition is effectively pr...
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The art of effective oversight: unravelling the success of Israel's Cabel Inquiry Committee The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Bell E. Yosef
Legislative oversight of the executive branch is a fundamental mechanism for ensuring government accountability, good governance, and enhancing democracy. However, formal oversight powers alone are...
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Ukraine's parliament in war: the impact of Russia's invasion on the Verkhovna Rada's ability and efforts to legislate reforms and join the European Union The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Charles R. Wise, Olena Suslova, Trevor L. Brown
Other than the Baltic countries, Ukraine has made the most progress in the transition to democracy than any other post-Soviet country. Ukraine's Parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, has been an instrume...
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Modelling sustainable uniformity of the Australian national uniform legislation through ordinal regression The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Guzyal Hill, Yakub Sebastian, Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov
National uniform legislation exists in federations to implement national reforms where the central government does not have the direct authority to legislate under the Constitution. The State juris...
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Regulatory capture in energy sector: evidence from Indonesia The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Iman Prihandono, Ekawestri Prajwalita Widiati
Regulatory capture reflects a phenomenon in which a regulatory agency, initially established to cater the interests of the public, formulates a policy based on private or ‘special’ interests. Actor...
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Operationalisation of legislation and the will of legislators in the judgments of international courts of war crimes and post-war recovery The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Gregor Potočnik
If the substantive truth, the actual situation in a war and post-war recovery based on the consequences of the war, is seemingly easy to determine in law, the judgments of international courts deci...
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Observing law-making patterns in times of crisis The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2023-06-18 Ioannis Primpas
This article examines the impact of the acute economic crisis that began in late 2009 on the law-making way in Greece. Through an analysis of the legislation enacted between 2010 and 2015, a consis...
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Exploring the relationship between law and governance: a proposal The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2023-05-27 Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi, Dietmar von der Pfordten
ABSTRACT The present article assumes that it is possible to explore the relationship between governance and law in general, and try to conceptualise it as accurately as possible. This article intends to set the foundations for this exploration. At the same time, it explains why it would be useful to concentrate on four specific relationships between governance and law: (1) governance as law, (2) governance
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Governing during the COVID-19 pandemic The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Osnat Akirav
ABSTRACT We present a new perspective on government reactions to COVID-19 in terms of the stringency of their regulations to control it. Using the Government Stringency Index from the University of Oxford’s Coronavirus Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) with a sample of 36 democracies, we determined that the governments’ regulations were less stringent when a woman was the head of the country, an
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Publish, explain, understand, and comply: Legislation in Plain Language The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Germán J. Arenas Arias
ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to systematize the political practice of three initiatives related to the concept of plain language on the Latin-American legislative arena. On the one hand, I explore part of literature on legislative studies to account for one of the communicative limits faced by legislation (Xanthaki, 2010, 2019) and on the other, present the instrumental nature of plain language
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Gender-sensitive post-legislative scrutiny in theory and practice The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Maria Mousmouti
ABSTRACT Post-legislative scrutiny (PLS) enables an assessment of whether laws have met their intended objectives and outcomes. PLS can reveal achievements and errors in the design of legislation, achievements and gaps in implementation and broader positive and negative impacts that enable or hinder the achievement of regulatory results. Gender-sensitive post-legislative scrutiny (PLS) is PLS with
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Gender sensitive parliaments and the legislative cycle: conceptualising new cultures and practices The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Sonia Palmieri
ABSTRACT As an emergent international norm, gender sensitive parliaments offer parliamentarians and parliamentary staff a new lens through which to consider all aspects of their institutional culture and work practices. In this article, I consider the origins, application and remaining gaps in one particular aspect of gender sensitive parliaments: gender mainstreaming legislation across its entire
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Gender-sensitive law-making: concept and process The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Maria Mousmouti
ABSTRACT Laws intervene in the life of all citizens but do not impact everyone in the same way. Different population groups are affected differentially on the grounds of their gender, race, age, disability etc, because of their different needs and situations and because of existing structural inequalities in society. This article examines gender as a determinant in law-making that extends throughout
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Gender responsive budgeting: a crucial part of the toolkit for the implementation of gender sensitive laws? The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Janet Veitch
ABSTRACT Theory of gender mainstreaming and links to GRB. What is gender responsive budgeting and why it is important. Laws that include specific requirements for implementation including budgets. Laws that do not require budgets. What does this mean for implementation? Gender responsive budgeting assists in the implementation of legislation by ensuring that inclusive resources are provided and also
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Research methodology in legislative drafting in Indonesia The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Victor Imanuel W. Nalle
ABSTRACT Research in legislative drafting in Indonesia is compulsory. Output of the research is academic paper (Naskah Akademik) which supports rationale needed for legislative drafting. This academic paper also provides logical and objective argumentation on significance of legislation. Even though research in legislative drafting has become a compulsory since 2011, academics and practitioners found
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Legislative drafting and gender: some linguistic insights into English and Italian The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Giulia Adriana Pennisi
ABSTRACT Languages vary widely in terms of gender systems showing differences in the number of classes, underlying assignment rules and how and where gender is marked. The legislative drafting policy conventionally known as the ‘masculine rule’, whereby ‘he includes she’, raised opposition in the 1970s (under the pressure of feminist movements in the United States and Europe), and the adoption of plain
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Legislating for change: gender-sensitive ex-ante legislative scrutiny in practice The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Hannah Johnson
ABSTRACT The law is a fundamental arena for advancing gender equality. Parliaments are where laws are made, but differential gender impacts are often not explored when draft legislation is scrutinised. A range of tools exist to help parliamentarians conduct gender-sensitive ex-ante legislative scrutiny but their success relies on parliamentary institutionalisation, localisation of measures, political
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Gender neutrality: description and prescription* The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Thomas Glyn Watkin
ABSTRACT This paper considers the lessons and examples which devolved law-making in Wales since 1999 can provide with regard to the drafting of gender-neutral legislation in a bilingual context. It will examine the issues and problems which have been faced by law-makers and drafters in Wales, and the solutions which they have devised to address them. It will then move on to consider how the guidance
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Direct democracy in the constitution: good or bad for democracy? The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2022-10-11 J. J. But, D. K. Jongkind, W. J. M. Voermans
ABSTRACT Concerns about democratic decline and deficit have recently led to repeated calls for institutional changes that could enhance civil participation and direct voter participation in public decision-making (forms of direct democracy). An evergreen among the instruments proposed is the referendum, and in particular the constitutionally embedded referendum. This would grant a constitutional right
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Regulation as struggle for jurisdictional and maximal power: evidence from the reform strategy of Kenya’s regulator of engineering practice The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2022-08-25 O. A. K’Akumu
ABSTRACT This paper reviews the political thinking as embedded in the text of the statute constituting the regulation of the engineering profession in Kenya. It specifically focuses on the regulator’s political strategy of consolidation of jurisdictional power and its concentration of regulatory power. Jurisdictional strategies include expansion into the working environment of engineers, attempts to
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African legislatures in social emergencies: challenges and outcomes The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Adewale Aderemi, Olajide O. Akanji
ABSTRACT Social emergencies of different kinds are common in Africa. Violent protests and secessionist agitations, terrorism and insurgencies, coups and conflicts, climate change and droughts, conflict and climate-induced internal displacement, drug/human trafficking, and lately the Covid-19 pandemic have ravaged the continent. This has raised the question of how African legislatures deal with crises;
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An examination of the role played by Ghana’s legislature in the management of the COVID-19 pandemic The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Kwame Asamoah, Bennet Kwadzo Nyadzi
ABSTRACT In the wake of the recently emerged COVID-19 pandemic, legislatures were regarded as one of the important government institutions that can help cushion nations against the economic and social disruptions inflicted by the health crises, given the important roles they play in policymaking within political systems. This paper examines the roles played by Ghana's legislative institution in the
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The legislature as target and mediator of ensuing outcomes during social emergencies: revisiting Nigeria’s #EndSARS protest The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Boluwatife Solomon Ajibola, Temitayo Isaac Odeyemi
ABSTRACT In recent times, discontented populations have increasingly leveraged public demonstrations and protests in expressing grievances and in making claims on political regimes. These demonstrations are sometimes not devoid of violence and destructions – incidences against which institutions of the state are arguably not immunised. At the inception of the 2020 #EndSARS protests against police brutality
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Cameroon: parliamentary (un)scrutiny amid multiple crises The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Numvi Gwaibi
ABSTRACT Cameroon’s parliament is constitutionally mandated to perform multiple functions, including the power to make laws. Like most legislatures, parliament is also empowered to perform familiar representative functions during the unfamiliar abnormal context of a crisis. However, parliament’s competence in the legislative domain is severely restricted by the President, who is neither accountable
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Legislative oversight and executive aggrandisement in the Nigeria’s COVID-19 emergency governance The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Samuel Oni, Moyosoluwa Dele-Dada
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 Pandemic has compelled governments across nations of the world to devise and implement emergency measures for curtailing the spread of the lethal virus. A fundamental debate is the relevance of legislature’s involvement in the emergency decision-making and the extent to which this representative assembly is able to assert its oversight role by making the government accountable
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Talking law. Clarity, transparency and legitimacy in rule-making The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Corina Andone, Candida Leone
(2022). Talking law. Clarity, transparency and legitimacy in rule-making. The Theory and Practice of Legislation: Vol. 10, Talking law. Clarity, transparency and legitimacy in rule-making, pp. 1-4.
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Democracy and executive power The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Tom West
Published in The Theory and Practice of Legislation (Vol. 11, No. 1, 2023)
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Algorithmic explainability and legal reasoning The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Zsolt Ződi
ABSTRACT Algorithmic explainability has become one of the key topics of the last decade of the discourse about automated decision making (AMD, machine-made decisions). Within this discourse, an important subfield deals with the explainability of machine-made decisions or outputs that affect a person’s legal position or have legal implications in general – in short, the algorithmic legal decisions.
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‘Plain’ legal language by courts: mere clarity, an expression of civic friendship or a masquerade of violence? The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2022-02-14 Iris van Domselaar
ABSTRACT In the Netherlands over the last decade, a range of initiatives have been launched by individual courts, mostly on their own initiative, to make court rulings more comprehensible to average citizens. At the outset, at least from the ‘internal point of view’ of legal practitioners, it might seem striking that these initiatives predominantly address the comprehensibility of legal language as
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Introduction: illiberal tendencies in law-making The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Tímea Drinóczi, Ronan Cormacain
ABSTRACT The ongoing autocratisation processes in the last couple of years have led us to ask the question of how legislation is actually made in a political and legal environment in which illiberal and populist governments govern and systematically disregard the Rule of Law, democracy and relativize human rights protection. Our goal was not to investigate illiberalism as a whole, but, instead, examine
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Symbolic legislation and the regulation of stroke biobanking and genomics research in Sub-Saharan Africa The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Muyiwa Adigun, Babatunde Raphael Ojebuyi, Joshua Akinyemi, Kolawole Wahab, Albert Akpalu, Fred S. Sarfo, Lukman F. Owolabi, Rabiu Musbahu, Abiodun Bello, Reginald Obiako, Mayowa Ogunronbi, Arti Singh, Michelle Nichols, Carolyn Jenkins, Ayodele Jegede, Rajesh Kalaria, Mayowa Owolabi, Bruce Ovbiagele, Oyedunni Arulogun, Rufus Akinyemi
ABSTRACT Stroke is a major cause of death in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and genetic factors appear to play a part. This led to the development of stroke bio-banking and genomics research in SSA. Existing stroke studies have focused on causes, incidence rates, fatalities and effects. However, scant attention has been paid to the legal issues about stroke bio-banking and genomics research in the sub-region
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Risk-based due diligence reporting in global mineral supply chains and the rule through transparency The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2022-02-04 Marissa E. A. A. M. Ooms
ABSTRACT This article examines the operation of transparency as a technique of power and rule in the governance of global mineral supply chains. It focuses on reporting and auditing practices associated with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas. The due diligence
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Persuasive rather than ‘binding’ EU soft law? An argumentative perspective on the European Commission’s soft law instruments in times of crisis The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Corina Andone, Florin Coman-Kund
ABSTRACT This paper starts from the premise that argumentation in EU (Commission) soft law instruments is essential for their effectiveness, mainly due to its function to persuade addressees as a means to enhance compliance. Notwithstanding their importance in the EU legal-political landscape, the problem is how to ensure that these instruments devoid of formal legally binding force can function as
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Enhancing the quality of legislation: the Italian experience The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Laura Tafani
ABSTRACT The article is based on the observation of an increasingly poor quality of legislation in Italy which has led to citizens experiencing disaffection towards regulatory instruments and, at the same time, mistrust in the institutions responsible for producing, implementing and enforcing legislation. This situation has certainly become more and more serious during the Covid-19 pandemic with the
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Illiberal tendencies in Indonesian legislation: the case of the omnibus law on job creation The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2021-07-07 Saru Arifin
ABSTRACT For the first time in the country’s legislative history, the Indonesian Parliament passed an omnibus law on job creation. By incorporating multiple statutory provisions from different types of law into a single Act, the omnibus law heralded a new age of Indonesian legislation. The legislation model of the omnibus bill, on the other hand, has been heavily criticised, with venues including marches
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Legislation in Illiberal Poland The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Agnieszka Bień-Kacała
ABSTRACT Poland and Hungary seem to represent the same type of constitutionalism. It can be defensibly labelled as illiberal, as it is based on a longing for a charismatic leader and specific national identity, combining individual freedom with non-liberal values, and distances itself from western standards comprising the Rule of Law, democracy, and human rights protection. Weak restraint is provided
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Legislative resistance to illiberalism in a system of coalitional presidentialism: will it work in Brazil? The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Thomas Bustamante, Emílio Peluso Neder Meyer
ABSTRACT Illiberal governments typically attempt to undermine representative democracy by adhering to a single comprehensive doctrine sustained through a majoritarian account of legitimacy that is suspicious of the rationality of liberal constitutional democracies. But perhaps there is hope for a system of coalitional presidentialism, such as Brazil. It has been argued that coalitional presidentialism
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Governmental predominance in Italian law-making: undemocratic or illiberal? The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Giovanni Piccirilli
ABSTRACT Italy has experienced different kinds of involution of parliamentary democracy and the legislative output over the course of the past couple of decades. Following the ‘Berlusconi-era’ (1994–2011) two major issues have dominated the evolution of Italian politics: technocratic governments (predominantly that of Monti in 2011–2013) and the recent emergence of populist parties (e.g. the Five Star
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The misuse of the legislative process as part of the illiberal toolkit. The case of Hungary The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2021-06-23 Viktor Zoltán Kazai
ABSTRACT The Fidesz-KDNP coalition parties were voted into office in 2010 with a two-thirds majority in the unicameral National Assembly, which gave them significant leeway to implement their political agenda smoothly. Nevertheless, the governing coalition, driven by revolutionary zeal, was determined to put in place major legislative reforms as quickly as possible in the face of every opposition.
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With a different name, the rose is not a rose anymore: legislative quality and gender equality in the AKP's Turkey The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2021-06-21 Valentina Rita Scotti
ABSTRACT The 1982 Turkish Constitution established a legal system aimed at ensuring state efficiency and stability more than the full respect of the rule of law. In the last decade, the latter is undergoing a democratic decay. The currently dominant Islamic Populism is reinterpreting fundamental concepts of constitutional democracy to entrench a paternalistic majoritarian vision of the law-making process
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Models of parliamentary scrutiny of the quality of legislation. How different drafting models and forms of government shape them The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2021-03-28 Enrico Albanesi
ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to set the scene for the following special issue, which contains four papers relating to research on parliamentary scrutiny of the quality of legislation in different jurisdictions. In Continental Europe, Parliaments (although in a rather different range: more in countries such as Italy and Spain, less in countries such as Germany) have developed a more-in-depth
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Parliamentary scrutiny of the quality of legislation in Spain. The role of parliamentary clerks The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2021-03-28 Piedad García-Escudero
ABSTRACT This article examines the case of Spain as part of a broader comparative study on parliamentary scrutiny of the quality of legislation, looking in particular at the role played by the Letrados de las Cortes Generales, the corps of high-ranking parliamentary civil servants, or clerks, of the Spanish bicameral legislature. As in many other countries, the Spanish political landscape has witnessed
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Parliamentary scrutiny of the quality of legislation in Germany The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2021-03-29 Matthias Rossi
ABSTRACT In Germany, there is no exhaustive institutionalised process of scrutiny for parliament to ensure the quality of laws. Neither the members of parliament nor the parliamentary administration are tasked with this quality review. In fact, the German legislative procedure draws on a pluralistic concept of quality review: all organs and persons involved in legislation are called upon in order to
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Parliamentary scrutiny of the quality of legislation in Canada The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2021-04-09 John Mark Keyes
ABSTRACT This paper looks at how legislative quality is addressed in Canada by private (non-Executive) members of the two legislative chambers forming part of the federal Parliament (the Senate and the House of Commons). It considers legislative quality from three perspectives (1. Policy and Politics, 2. Legality, 3. Accessibility / Intelligibility) and reviews the resources and mechanisms parliamentarians
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Legislative scrutiny in the United States: dynamic, whole-stream revision The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2021-03-29 Sean J. Kealy
ABSTRACT Legislative drafting in the United States Congress is a dynamic process with many actors working to revise both a bill’s policy and language. Rather than a central drafting office or government agency responsible for drafting bills, legislative language and amendments come from many sources: Congressional committee staff, the House and Senate Offices of Legislative Counsel, special interest
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Introduction to special section on Legislation and Diversity The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2021-04-21 Felix Uhlmann, Mauro Zamboni, Ronan Cormacain
(2021). Introduction to special section on Legislation and Diversity. The Theory and Practice of Legislation: Vol. 9, Regulating Diversity, pp. 1-2.
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Promoting (religious and political) diversity through legislation in Northern Ireland The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2021-03-07 Ronan Cormacain
ABSTRACT Northern Ireland is a society which has suffered communal strife for decades, a result of divergent political and religious identities. Since the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, the violence associated with this tension has receded. This article looks at some of the different areas where there has been inter-communal conflict: political structures, elections, policing, language, employment
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Does the law think that black lives matter? A reflection upon the role of the public sector equality duty in promoting racial equality before the law The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2021-04-08 Michael Abiodun Olatokun
ABSTRACT Racism is often perceived as a conscious choice an individual makes to abuse another, or an explicit statement that a group of people are inferior to another. Less often is racism construed as a product of institutional culture. This inability to accurately depict the problem has stunted the ability of lawmakers to craft legislation that will adequately combat racism. This paper explores attempts
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The crisis of confidence in legislation The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2021-02-07 Daniel Hult
(2021). The crisis of confidence in legislation. The Theory and Practice of Legislation: Vol. 9, Illiberal tendencies in law-making, pp. 451-454.
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Promoting gender equality through regulation: the case of parental leave The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2020-12-28 Miriam Rocha
ABSTRACT Parental leave regulation is not gender-neutral. Policies that encourage fathers’ leave-taking relate to the enhancement of child well-being, caring fatherhood, and gender equality among the couple and in the workplace. There are various designs of parental leave policies, depending on a combination of factors, such as length, income replacement rate and the compulsory nature of leave. This
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Global legislative responses to coronavirus The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2020-11-18 Philip Norton
(2020). Global legislative responses to coronavirus. The Theory and Practice of Legislation: Vol. 8, Global Legislative Responses to Coronavirus, pp. 237-238.
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Lawmaking in times of domestic and foreign-policy instability (the Russian experience) The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2020-11-10 Roman Rouvinsky
ABSTRACT The article is devoted to the phenomenon of the contemporary restrictive and prohibitive legislation that originates from the conditions of domestic and foreign-policy instability. It primarily focuses on the Russian experience, because the current Russian legislation is an obvious example of legislation exercised with the help of restrictive and prohibitive rules. Such recent and much-talked-of
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The Henry VIII powers in the Brexit process: justification subject to political and legal safeguards The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2020-09-23 Antonios Kouroutakis
Henry VIII powers, which are commonly found in legislation, until recently, were not an issue of major constitutional concern. However, their extensive use in the EUWA and the subsequent EUWAA attr...
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Gender equality and legislative evaluation of gender-based laws in Korea The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2020-09-21 Kyungho Choi
ABSTRACT Korea’s Constitution, Article 11(1) prescribes, ‘All citizens shall be equal before the law, and there shall be no discrimination in political, economic, social or cultural life on account of sex, religion or social status’. The Constitution prescribes equal protection of citizens regardless of their gender. In this article, the efforts and tools for ensuring gender equality in Korea are introduced
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Gender quotas in corporate decision-making bodies – regulatory promotion of equality of results in the EU The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2020-09-06 Ana Horvat Vuković
EU and its member states utilise the paradigm of equality of results in the area of gender equality. In addition to preferences in standardised jobs, states have also been using quotas in corporate...
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Global legislative responses to coronavirus The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Ronan Cormacain, Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov
ABSTRACT States around the world have struggled to come up with proper legislative responses to the 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic. This editorial introduces the special issue on ‘Global Legislative Responses to Coronavirus’ and offers an overview of its rich array of articles. It follows on from the previous special issue on legislatures in a time of Covid-19.
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Emergency powers in a hybrid regime: the case of Hungary The Theory and Practice of Legislation Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Csaba Győry, Nyasha Weinberg
ABSTRACT How should we understand the Hungarian government’s activities since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis? This article reviews Hungary’s emergency law, and the decrees passed under the emergency authorisation to date, as well as the ending of the state of emergency and the subsequently introduced new statutory emergency regime to ask how Hungary’s actions in recent months should be understood