Thesis (doctoral)--Göttingen Universitat, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-106). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2008. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-298).

Thesis (M.Phil.)--University of Waikato, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [214]-222) Also available via the World Wide Web.

M.A. (Public Management and Governance) / This research is an assessment of the level of goal achievement by the Gauteng Provincial Legislature’s (GPL) Infrastructure Development Portfolio Committee (IDCP). The overall aim is to determine the effectiveness of the Portfolio Committee, the reasons behind the discovered level of performance, and how to improve the status quo. Research findings reveal that the IDPC managed to achieve 61% of its targets over a four-year period (2009-2014). This is a fairly respectable achievement considering that the Portfolio Committee was only established in the current legislative term. Research findings also reveal a number of factors to support this achievement, such as capacity issues for both Members of the Provincial Legislature (MPLs) and staff and the institution’s congested programme. Quite a number of these factors need to be addressed at institutional level, including capacitation of MPLs and administrative support staff, the GPL’s congested programme, and the identification of relevant stakeholders. However, there are issues that can be addressed at committee level and include engaging in law making discussions, providing feedback to stakeholders on a regular basis and systematically, and gathering more independent information for verification purposes.

Whatever may be the policy of a (declaratory) power in the Crown conclusively to certify the limits of its territorial sovereignty, and whatever be the ultimate fate of such a power [linked, as it is in part, to the policy of. and indeed the existence of, a (constitutive) prerogative of cession] still at all events the constituent function of the Crown is founded upon the (constitutive) prerogative of annexation, as distinct from any declaratory power. To annexation the will and pleasure of the Crown is, as a matter of constitutional law, both sufficient and necessary, without regard to any consideration of international law. The necessity of Her Majesty's pleasure is supported inter alia by the case of Staples v. The Queen (1899) (unreported), heard on application to the Privy Council for leave to appeal from the High Court of Matabeleland. A full report of the proceedings in both courts, including argument and reasons, being appended; the Privy Council deciding that territory remained foreign notwithstanding destruction by armed force of the previous native sovereignty and ensuing complete control by the Crown ... The prerogative of legislation is considered; semble a grant of representative institutions may be held subject to a reservation of the prerogative of legislation contained in an earlier but governing instrument. A prerogative of the Crown to legislate for the subject even in foreign territory, wherever the Crown has assumed a jurisdiction, is supported by limited judicial authority whose correctness is doubted. The true extent is considered of the continuance of existing laws in conquered and ceded territories. The establishment of legislative institutions is considered. The incidents of these institutions are elaborated upon, and particularly the privileges of legislative bodies erected by the Crown. An account is given of the events in Newfoundland in August, 1838, giving rise to the leading case of Dr. Kielley in the Courts of Newfoundland, and, on appeal, in the Privy Council, laying down the rule that only necessary incidents are enjoyed at common law and not the lex et consuetude parliament! as known at Westminster: the rule herein laid down being applied more particularly against a power of committal for contempt. Earlier colonial and Privy Council precedents in the opposite sense are discussed. The rule is suggested to be one dictated by considerations of policy simply, and not determined by any particular view of the true basis of privilege in England. If anything, assimilation of the lex et consuetudo parliamenti to the common law serves as an argument for its passage to the colony, while attribution to lost statute might tend to establish peculiarity to England and colonial inapplicability; but the rule of inapplicability may be applied in any event.

The purpose of this dissertation is to demonstrate how the London Corresponding Society, during the last decade of the 18th Century, sought Parliamentary reform that would end the system of government controlled and corrupted by the rich English landholding gentry.

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O objetivo desta pesquisa é verificar ao lógicas que orientam o recrutamento para as Comissões Permanentes da Câmara de Deputados nas Legislaturas de 1991/1994 e 1995/1999. A hipótese principal é a de que o pertencimento à aliança eleitoral do Presidente da República induz os partidos políticos a realizarem um recrutamento baseado em critérios de lealdade política para as comissões estratégicas para a agenda do executivo. Já os partidos de oposição, segundo a hipótese, são obrigados a buscarem no próprio legislativo, ou nos governos estaduais, as fontes de recursos para suas bases eleitorais, implicando assim, num recrutamento baseado em critérios de especialização ou auto-seletivo. O quadro teórico utilizado combina elementos do neoinstitucionalismo e teoria dos jogos, e visa compreender, a partir do conjunto das instituições políticas brasileiras, as estratégias utilizadas por partidos e parlamentares no recrutamento para as comissões. / The objective of this research is to verify to the logics that you guide the recruitment for the Permanent Committees of the Camera of Deputies in the Legislatures of 1991/1994 and 1995/1999. The main hypothesis is the that the participation in the President electoral alliance induces the political parties accomplish it a recruitment based on criteria of political loyalty for the strategic committees for the executive's agenda. Already the opposition parties, according to the hypothesis, they are forced her look for in the own legislative, or in the state governments, the sources of resources for their electoral bases, implicating like this, in a recruitment based on specialization criteria, or selfselective. The used theoretical structure combines elements of the newinstitutionalism and theory of the games, and he seeks to understand, starting from the group of the Brazilian political institutions, the strategies used by parties and parliamentary in the recruitment for the committees.