Election Commissions in UK Law
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The Commonwealth in the 21st Century
...... instance, of National Human Rights Institutions and of National Election Commissions, which it supports and whose best practice it shares. These ......
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New governance, new hope: findings and results of the taskforce to establish a Mental Health Commission for NSW
Purpose: This article aims to describe the process by which the new NSW Government executed its election promise to establish a Mental Health Commission for NSW. Design/methodology/approach: This ......... from the Taskforce’s interactions with othermental health commissions, including in New Zealand, Western Australia and Canada.Findings – ...A state election was held in March 2011 atwhich the long-serving labor government was swept ......
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New Constituencies for the United Kingdom – at Last?
...... on how to redraw the map of British constituencies, the Commissions recommended a number of changes, most notably a new set of boundaries ... left reeling after their substantial defeat at the 1997 General Election, but when that was repeated in 2001 they began to analyse why they had ......
- Reviews: Karl Marx: Man and Fighter, Year One of the Russian Revolution, Emile Durkheim; His Life and Work, The Role of Commissions in Policy Making, Planification Et Politique En Grand-Bretagne 1945–1971, Teachers' Unions and Interest Group Politics, The Politics of the Powerless, A Study of the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination, between Class and Elite: The Evolution of the British Labour Movement, Ramsay Macdonald's Political Writings, Decision by Default: Peacetime Conscription and British Defence 1919–39, Diplomacy and Persuasion. How Britain Joined the Common Market, Europe in the Making, West European Politics since 1945: The Shaping of the European Community, The Politics of Expertise, Presidents, Bureaucrats, and Foreign Policy: The Politics of Organizational Reform, Bureaucracy and Foreign Policy, The Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research, Studies in International Affairs Number 17, The Military in Politics. Changing Patterns in Brazil, The Political System of Brazil. Emergence of A “Mod
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Book Reviews: Crisis in British Government: The Need for Reform, Parliament in Perspective, The British System of Government, The 5,000 and the Power Tangle, The British General Election of 1966, Parliament and Administration: The Estimates Committee 1945–1965, Britain's Role Tomorrow, The Broken Wing, The Creation of the National Health Service, The Development of an Interest Group: The Philippine Medical Association, Medicine and Government, European Unification in the Sixties, Précis De Droit Constitutionnel, Droit Constitutionnel Et Institutions Politiques, L'U.N.R.: Etude Du Pouvoir Au Sein D'Un Parti Politique, Kurt Schumacher—Persönlichkeit Und Politisches Verhalten, Staat, Wirtschaft Und Politik in Der Weimarer Republik, Festschrift Für Heinrich Brüning, Vom Reich Zur Bundesrepublik: Deutschland Im Widerstreit Der Aussenpolitischen Konzeptionen in Den Jahren Der Besatzungsherrschaft 1945–1949, Kirchliche Bindung Und Wahlverhalten, The Dynamics of Communism in Eastern Europe, Ten Years after, Soviet Po
...... Edited by RALPH BRAIBANTI. (Duke University Press. Pp. xx+733. $17.50.) PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIONS OF INDIA. By c. N. BHALERAO. (Sterling Publishers Private Ltd. Pp. xxvi + 274. Rs. 25.00.) For the student and teacher of ......
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The Comparative Study of Electoral Governance—Introduction
Electoral governance is a crucial variable in securing the credibility of elections in emerging democracies, but remains largely ignored in the comparative study of democratization. This article de......... Electoral institutions The unprecedented 2000 US presidential election afforded us an unforeseen natural experiment to reinforce the central ...Ad hoc commissions that have to start “from scratch at every new election” have become ......
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Patterns of Electoral Governance in Africa's Emerging Democracies
This article describes and explains patterns of electoral governance in Africa's emerging democracies through a systematic examination of election management bodies (embs), the formal units princip.........’s emerging democracies through a systematic examination of election management bodies ( EMB s), the formal units principally responsible for ... the creation of EMB s as independent and permanent electoral commissions, even in countries, such as the ones in francophone Africa, Eastern Europe ......
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Conclusions: The new research agenda on electoral management
This concluding article begins by considering the reasons behind the growing demand for policy-relevant comparative research into the institutional structures and processes of electoral management..........This constitutes the future research agenda. Keywords Elections, election administration, electional management bodies, electoral integrity ...For example, nominally “Independent Election Commissions” have been established in many countries, such as in Afghanistan, the ......
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Review: Commissions High
...... Journal | Winter 2006-2007 | in Dreamland ) at the expense of all other preferences, interests, and per- ceptions, and loses the next election as a consequence, then who should be criticized for dreaming? Frank Harvey/Dalhousie University COMMISSIONS HIGH Canada in London, 1870-1971 Roy ......
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Emergent India
...... the BJP discovered to its discomfiture during the last gen- eral election, the “dark,” neglected,and mostly rural India that has been left | ... free—ensured by the con- stitutionally autonomous election commissions. As well, the popular legiti- macy of elections has never been ......
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