Tag: Legislative

Free Download Caroline Hand, "Waste Management: The New Legislative Climate"
English | 2006 | pages: 119 | ISBN: 1854183672 | PDF | 0,6 mb
This valuable new report explains what all the new UK legislation, directives and regulations mean in practice and what you need to do to stay within the law.

Free Download S A Walkland, "The Legislative Process in Great Britain"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1032130199, 1032130113 | EPUB | pages: 2468 | 0.2 mb
Originally published in 1968, this book deals with the process of public legislation in modern Britain at the time, not in terms of constitutional formulae, but by a realistic appraisal of the relationships between the political institutions and forces which gave the process its shape. It concentrates particularly on the procedures and conventions which operated at the preparatory stages of legislation, and established that legislation was almost exclusively a governmental function, Parliament playing only a minor role. It is particularly concerned to stress the extent to which consultation by the government with pressure groups was now a major feature of the legislative process, and concludes that subordinate departmental legislation, developed as a result of collaboration between pressure groups and Civil Servants, was the most characteristic and important stage of the legislative process in Britain.

Free Download Andy Phippen, "Sexting and Revenge Pornography: Legislative and Social Dimensions of a Modern Digital Phenomenon"
English | ISBN: 1138555770 | 2020 | 156 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book considers the rapidly evolving, both legally and socially, nature of image-based abuse, for both minors and adults. Drawing mainly from UK data, legislation and case studies, it presents a thesis that the law is, at best, struggling to keep up with some fundamental issues around image based abuse, such as the sexual nature of the crimes and the long term impact on victims, and at worst, in the case of supporting minors, not fit for purpose. It shows, through empirical and legislative analysis, that the dearth of education around this topic, coupled with cultural norms, creates a victim blaming culture that extends into adulthood. It proposes both legislative developments and need for wider stakeholder engagement to understand and support victims, and the impact the non-consensual sharing of intimate images can have on their long-term mental health and life in general. The book is of interest to scholar of law, criminology, sociology, police and socio-technical studies, and is also to those who practice law, law enforcement or wider social care role in both child and adult safeguarding.

Free Download Shannon Jenkins, "The Context of Legislating: Constraints on the Legislative Process in the United States"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1138599654 | EPUB | pages: 146 | 1.2 mb
The Context of Legislating provides a much-needed examination of how the rules, resources, and political conditions within and surrounding different institutions raise or lower the costs of legislating. Using data tracking over 1,100 legislators, 230 committees and 12,000 bills introduced in ten state lower chambers, Shannon Jenkins examines how political conditions and institutional rules and resources shape the arc of the legislative process by raising the costs of some types of legislative activity and lowering the costs of others. Jenkinstraces these important contextual effects across the legislative process, examining bill introduction, committee processing and floor passage of bills in these legislatures. The analysis reveals that institutional variables shape the legislative process on their own, but they also have important interactive effects that shape the behavior of actors in these chambers. After tracing these effects across the legislative process, the book concludes by examining the practical implications of these analytical findings. How can the rules of institutions be designed to create effective legislatures? And what do these findings mean for those who seek to shape the policies produced by these institutions?

Free Download Hanna Back, "The Politics of Legislative Debates "
English | ISBN: 0198849060 | 2022 | 892 pages | PDF | 14 MB
Legislative debates make democracy and representation work. Political actors engage in legislative debates to make their voice heard to voters. Parties use debates to shore up their brand.

Free Download Torsten J. Selck, "Preferences and Procedures: European Union Legislative Decision-Making"
English | 2006 | pages: 106 | ISBN: 038727555X, 1441938982 | PDF | 2,0 mb
Preferences and Procedures presents and tests game-theoretic models of European Union legislative decision-making. It is inspired by the idea of linking statistical testing strategies firmly to formal models of EU policymaking. After describing salient features of the EU legislative process and comparing different models of how the EU negotiates new legislative measures, the models’ predictive power is evaluated. On a more general level, Preferences and Procedures answers questions regarding the empirically recognizable effects of institutional arrangements on joint bargaining outcomes.

Free Download Adebola Rafiu BAKARE, "National Assembly and Legislative Effectiveness in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic"
English | ISBN: 9819907799 | 2023 | 278 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book evaluates the legislative effectiveness of Nigeria’s National Assembly under the Fourth Republic. The assessment covers five Assemblies (4th-8th) and focuses specifically on lawmaking, cost of running the National Assembly, and the budget making process. It empirically assesses the effectiveness of the Nigerian national legislature beyond previous emotional and sentimental evaluations of the institution. It has developed a model ‘Institutional Legislative Effectiveness Score’ used in assessing the institutional performance of the National Assembly from two perspectives: first, by comparing the performances of the two chambers in the same Assembly; and second, by comparing the performances of the institution across Assemblies. Aside lawmaking, the book also covers the major topical issues that characterized public evaluation of the institution. These include: size of the institution, budgeting process, cost of funding the institution, and the debate on the appropriate way in reforming the National Assembly.

Free Download Giovanni Sartor, Monica Palmirani, Enrico Francesconi, "Legislative XML for the Semantic Web: Principles, Models, Standards for Document Management"
English | 2011 | pages: 198 | ISBN: 9400737033, 9400718861 | PDF | 5,4 mb
This volume examines the basic layers of the standard-based creation and usage of legislation. In particular, it addresses the identification of legislative documents, their structure, the basic metadata and legislative changes. Since mature technologies and established practices are already in place for these layers, a standard-based approach is a necessary aspect of the up-to-date management of legislative resources.