Zugl.: Köln, Universiẗat, Diss., 2007. / Literaturverz.

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The European Union (EU) is the most far-reaching attempt yet undertaken to institutionalize democratic policy-making beyond the nation-state. To what extent, and in what ways, do various channels of representation contribute towards the realization of this aim? This dissertation takes stock of current research on the EU’s system of representation, and seeks to expand its agenda so that this central question can be properly addressed. In contrast to prior empirical work in the field, the dissertation employs research designs that incorporate several forms of representation into a unified evaluative framework. This multi-channel approach to political representation paves the way for a systematic comparison of how different forms of representation (electoral, territorial and corporate) perform in the EU context. It also makes possible an empirical assessment of a key proposition in current representation theory: that elections, in large and heterogeneous political systems, are outperformed by other forms of representation. The three articles in the dissertation draw on existing cross-country data, interviews with policy-makers and a new dataset collected by the author. They scrutinize representation in three principal channels: electoral representation in the European Parliament, government representation in the preparatory bodies of the Council of Ministers, and representation through organized interests that seek to influence EU policy. The first article examines the balance of power that has emerged between these three channels of representation in the EU’s legislative process, and how the current balance is likely to affect the Union’s legitimacy. The second article investigates how different channels of representation perform in terms of providing linkage between Brussels-based representatives and their domestic principals. The third article examines the extent to which different channels of representation contribute to the coordination of EU policy-making domestically, at the European level, and across the two levels of government. Finally, this dissertation makes a methodological contribution by applying social network analysis (SNA) to classic problems of representation within and across different channels of representation. This approach is novel to the field. Researchers should be able to exploit SNA and relational data fruitfully in the future, in the study of representational relationships in the EU and numerous other contexts.

On title page: Master of Philosophy (Decision Making, Knowledge Dynamics and Values). / Thesis (MPhil) Stellenbosch University, 2005 / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Knowledge based organisations must continually create, share, and capture knowledge in order to improve performance. This demand for performance improvement has now also reached the public sector. The Parliamentary Service responded to this demand by contracting consultants to design systems, policies and strategies in areas such as performance management, information technology, human resource management, financial resource management, training and development. Against this background, a case study was conducted within the Parliamentary Service to explore how organizational knowledge is created and transferred in practice. The theoretical lens for this case study is Nonaka's knowledge spiral, which puts emphasis on the creation, codification and diffusion of knowledge. The study explores processes and mechanisms of creating, transferring and capturing knowledge. This is done through the examination of strategies and systems for codifying tacit knowledge and storing that codified knowledge. Thereafter technological, cultural and organizational barriers that inhibit these efforts at sharing and storage of knowledge are identified. In the light of the above, implications for managing organizational knowledge are outlined. Lastly recommendations are made on how tacit and explicit knowledge could be efficiently managed within the sections and divisions of the Parliamentary Service. Data was gathered through interviews, observation and an analysis of organizational documents. These demonstrate that through the contracting of consultants and the involvement of internal stakeholders, parliamentary service has made remarkable progress in creating, sharing, and codifying knowledge of the performance management system at individual, group and organizational levels. This progress was made as the result of the institutionalization of a performance management forum, the use of workshops, the training of trainers and staff, the publications of newsletters, the development of manuals and the writing and submission of reports. However, it was also found that there are certain technological, cultural and organizational barriers to effective knowledge management. These include the lack of electronic databases, a culture of hoarding knowledge and the fact that knowledge management roles are not assigned. Based on the analysis of these technological, cultural and organizational barriers the -- study makes six recommendations for the management of organizational knowledge within the parliamentary service. These recommendations deal with the following issues: The codification of tacit knowledge, the creation of a knowledge repository, the promotion of a knowledge sharing culture, the institutionalization of knowledge sharing incentives, the establishment of a knowledge management unit, and the appointment of a chief knowledge officer. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Kennisgebaseerde orgamsas1es moet aaneenlopend kennis skep, deel en kodifiseer om kompeterend te bly. Kennisgebaseerde prestasie-verbetering word toenemend 'n prioriteit in die openbare sektor. Die Parlementere Diensafdeling het, in 'n poging om prestasie te verbeter, konsultante gekontrakteer om sisteme, beleide en strategiee te ontwerp in areas soos prestasie-bestuur, informasie tegnologie, menslike hulpbronbestuur, finansiele bestuur, en opleiding en ontwikkeling. 'n Gevallestudie in die Parlementere Diensafdeling is teen hierdie agtergrond geloods om uit te vind hoe organisatoriese kennis in die praktyk geskep en oorgedra word. Die teoretiese lens vir hierdie gevallestudie is N onaka se kennis-spiraal, wat die skep, kodifiseer en deel van kennis benadruk. Die studie verken die prosesse en meganismes vir die skep en oordrag van kennis. Dit word gedoen deur die strategiee en sisteme vir die kodifisering van verswee kennis (tacit knowledge) en die stoor van die eksplisiete kennis (explicit knowledge) te ondersoek. Daama word die tegnologiese, kulturele en organisatoriese hindemisse wat die pogings tot die skep en deel van kennis frustreer gei"dentifiseer. In die lig van bogenoemde word implikasies vir die bestuur van kennis uitgestippel. Laastens word voorstelle gemaak vir die bestuur van kennis in spesifiek die Parlementere Diensafdeling. Data vir die studie is verkry deur onderhoude, observasie en die analise van organisatoriese dokumente. Hierdie demonstreer dat die Parlementere Diensafdeling, deur die kontraktering van konsultante en die betrek van interne belangehebbers, wel daarin geslaag het om kennis rondom die prestasiebesuurstelsel te skep, te deel en te kodifiseer op individuele, groep en organisasie vlak. Dit is hoofsaaklik toe te skryf aan die institusionalisering van 'n prestasiebestuursforum, die gebruik van werkswinkels, die opleiding van personeel, die publikasie van nuusbriewe, die ontwikkeling van handboeke en die skryf en indiening van verslae. Dit is egter ook gevind dat daar sekere tegnologiese, kulturele en organisatoriese hindemisse tot effektiewe kennisbestuur in die Parlementere Diensafdeling is. Hierdie sluit in die gebrek aan 'n elektroniese databasis, 'n kultuur van kennis-opgaarding, en die feit dat kennisbestuursrolle nie toegeken word nie. Die studie maak dan ses voorstelle vir die bestuur van organisatoriese kennis binne die Parlementere Diensafdeling gebaseer op die analise van hierdie tegnologiese, kulturele en organisatoriese faktore. Hierdie voorstelle gaan oor die volgende kwessies: Die kodifisering van verswee kennis (tacit knowledge), die skep van 'n kennis poel (knowledge repository), die bevordering van 'n kultuur van kennis deel, die institusionalisering van kennis insentiewe, die vestiging van 'n kennisbestuursafdeling, en die aanstelling van 'n Hoof Kennis Beampte (Chief Knowledge Officer).

O objetivo desta dissertação foi verificar a existência de padr6es partidarios de recrutamente de deputados para as Comissões Permanentes da Câmara dos Deputados na legislatura de 1995-1998. 0 ponto de partida foi o exame da trajetória profissional e politica de cada deputado disponível no Repertório Biográfico publicado pela Câmara dos Deputados e a listagem da composição das Comissões Permanentes. A hipótese que orientou esta pesquisa foi a de que o sistema de comissões representa um incentivo para que os partidos selecionem de forma mais cuidadosa os parlamentares indicados estrategicamente para sua composição / The objective of this work was verifying the existence of party patterns in deputy recruiting for the Deputy Assembly Permanent Commissions, in the 1995-1998 legislature. The starting point was the examination of the professional and politics course of each deputy available in the Biographic Repertoire published by the Deputy Assembly and the Permanent Commissions composing lists. The hyphothesis that guided this research was that the commission system represents a support so that the parties can select in a more careful way the congressmen strategically indicated for its composition.

A partir dos anos 2000, o Mercosul dedicou maior atenção a aspectos sociais da integração regional, através de projetos como o Parlamento Juvenil do Mercosul, que tem entre seus objetivos fomentar a identidade comum. A análise bibliográfica e documental comprova o forte vínculo no pensamento latino-americano entre a questão identitária e a integração regional. A análise dos discursos dos parlamentares juvenis do Mercosul indica que estes conceitos foram absorvidos pelos adolescentes participantes da primeira edição do Parlamento e que o contato entre a juventude dos Estados Partes provocou mudanças na visão a respeito dos países vizinhos e do próprio Mercosul. / A partir dos anos 2000, o Mercosul dedicou maior atenção a aspectos sociais da integração regional, através de projetos como o Parlamento Juvenil do Mercosul, que tem entre seus objetivos fomentar a identidade comum. A análise bibliográfica e documental comprova o forte vínculo no pensamento latino-americano entre a questão identitária e a integração regional. A análise dos discursos dos parlamentares juvenis do Mercosul indica que estes conceitos foram absorvidos pelos adolescentes participantes da primeira edição do Parlamento e que o contato entre a juventude dos Estados Partes provocou mudanças na visão a respeito dos países vizinhos e do próprio Mercosul.

O objetivo desta dissertação foi verificar a existência de padr6es partidarios de recrutamente de deputados para as Comissões Permanentes da Câmara dos Deputados na legislatura de 1995-1998. 0 ponto de partida foi o exame da trajetória profissional e politica de cada deputado disponível no Repertório Biográfico publicado pela Câmara dos Deputados e a listagem da composição das Comissões Permanentes. A hipótese que orientou esta pesquisa foi a de que o sistema de comissões representa um incentivo para que os partidos selecionem de forma mais cuidadosa os parlamentares indicados estrategicamente para sua composição / The objective of this work was verifying the existence of party patterns in deputy recruiting for the Deputy Assembly Permanent Commissions, in the 1995-1998 legislature. The starting point was the examination of the professional and politics course of each deputy available in the Biographic Repertoire published by the Deputy Assembly and the Permanent Commissions composing lists. The hyphothesis that guided this research was that the commission system represents a support so that the parties can select in a more careful way the congressmen strategically indicated for its composition.

This dissertation examines Vivekananda (1863-1902) as an itinerant monk rather than the nationalist ideologue he has become in recent scholarship. Historians have approached Vivekananda as either a pioneer of Hindu nationalism or as the voice of a universalist calling for service to humanity. Such labelling neglects the fact that he predominantly navigated between those polarised identities, and overlooks the incongruities between his actions and his ideas. By contextualising his travels within various scales of history, this dissertation puts Vivekananda's lived life in dialogue with his thought, as articulated in his correspondence and speeches. It shows that purposeful movement characterised Vivekananda's life. Instead of searching for enlightenment, he travelled throughout the subcontinent as a wandering monk to territorialise spirituality. He carved out his own support base in Madras to reclaim the region from the Theosophical Society, and dwelled in native courts to accrue the patronage of native princes to build the Ramakrishna Math and Mission with him at the helm. His web of princely patronage also carried him to the Parliament of the World's Religions (World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893), as a representative of 'Hinduism' rather than a Hindu representative of a religious community or organisation. His rise to fame at the Parliament also unfolded through spatial dynamic. His performance triggered highly gendered and disordered spectacle, which starkly contrasted with the British Royal Commission's obsession with discipline at the main Exposition. Furthermore, his speeches painted an anti-colonial geography of fraternity, and instilled new malleable subjectivity in his western female followers. After his death, his life and ideas continued to challenge the colonial state's distinction between 'spirituality' and anarchism. Thus, Vivekananda territorialised spirituality in both India and America not only by travelling, but also by inhabiting the interstices of empire. By examining Vivekananda through space, this dissertation creates a new template for contextualising Vivekananda in national, imperial, and international histories, leading to new insights on the man, his ideas, and his legacy.

This thesis examines the political role of the three estates in the Scottish parliament and general council between 1424 and 1488. Previous histories of the Scottish parliament have judged it to be weak and constitutionally defective. By placing each meeting of the estates within the context of political events, examining the frequency of meetings, identifying previously unknown parliaments, and studying those who attended and sat on its committees, a more detailed picture of parliament's role and influence has been created. A broadly chronological approach has been used in order to place parliaments in the context of the time in which they sat. Chapters 1 and 2 examine parliament between the return of James I from England in 1424 and 1435 and show the opposition he faced regarding taxation and the developing noble and clerical resentment to attempts to extend royal authority in the secular and ecclesiastical spheres. Chapters 3 and 4 discuss the crisis in parliament and general council between 1436 and James I's death, its role in the establishment of a new minority government, and the interaction between the Crichton, Livingston and Douglas families between 1437 and 1449. Chapter 5 examines James II's use of parliament as a tool against the Black Douglases between 1450 and 1455, while Chapter 6 shows parliament's ability to exert influence over royal lands and possessions and to criticise royal behaviour from 1455 to 1460. Chapter 7 shows the role of factions in parliament in the minority of James III, and their ability to undermine the government. Chapters 8, 9 and 10 discuss the campaign of criticism against James III in the 1470s, the parliamentary crisis that faced him in 1479-82, and the greater royal control exerted in the 1480s. Chapter 11 examines the lords of the articles between 1424 and 1485 and concludes that the committee was not, as has formerly been suggested, a royal board of control. In conclusion the Scottish parliament is judged to have played a leading role in political affairs, providing a forum in which the estates were able to criticise, oppose and defeat the crown over a broad range of issues.

Cette étude se penche sur les doctrines du droit parlementaire entendues comme les discours à prétention savante relatifs au droit des assemblées parlementaires. Elle s’attache à retracer l’apparition et l’évolution de ces discours en France et distingue trois groupes doctrinaux en fonction de la conception des rapports entre Droit et politique sur laquelle ils se fondent. Les trois parties de la thèse sont ainsi respectivement consacrées à chacun de ces groupes : la doctrine politique des « professeurs-parlementaires », la doctrine technique des « professeurs-administrateurs » et enfin à la doctrine juridique des « professeurs-universitaires ». La pertinence de cette typologie est éprouvée au regard de la notion de constitutionnalisation qui apparait particulièrement polysémique et dont l’application au droit parlementaire contemporain suscite des difficultés conceptuelles. Celles-ci s’expliquent notamment par le fait que chaque groupe doctrinal tend à développer une conception de la constitutionnalisation qui lui est propre en fonction de la théorie du Droit politique qu’elle adopte. La doctrine politique s’attache à une constitutionnalisation de conservation du droit parlementaire, la doctrine technique promeut une constitutionnalisation d’optimisation du droit parlementaire tandis que la doctrine juridique se rallie à une constitutionnalisation de subordination du droit parlementaire. / This study examines the doctrines of parliamentary law understood as scholarly speeches relating to the rules of parliamentary assemblies. It attempts to trace the appearance and evolution of these discourses in France and distinguishes three doctrinal groups according to the conception of the relations between Law and politics on which they are based. The three parts of the thesis are respectively devoted to each of these groups: the political doctrine of "parliamentary professors", the technical doctrine of "professors-administrators" and finally the legal doctrine of "university professors". The relevance of this typology is tested with regards to the notion of constitutionalization, which appears to be particularly polysemic and whose application to contemporary parliamentary law raises conceptual difficulties. These are explained in particular by the fact that each doctrinal group tends to develop its own conception of the notion of constitutionalization, according to the theory of the political right it adopts. The political doctrine focuses on a constitutionalization of the conservation of parliamentary law, the technical doctrine promotes a constitutionalization of optimization of parliamentary law while the legal doctrine is associated with a constitutionalization of subordination of parliamentary law.