Election Commissions in UK Law
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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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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 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 ... ...
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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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Book Review: The United Nations and the Peaceful Unification of Korea
... ... Three commissions operated under a General Assembly mandate "to travel, observe and ... The first commission observed the election of 1948 which led to the creation of the Republic of Korea ... ...
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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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Globalization and Decentralization: Emerging Issues from the Indian Experience
... ... Tandon is Election Commissioner, Government of India, New Delhi. V.K. Agnihotri is Additional ... State election and finance commissions are to be constituted to conduct the elections to local bodies and to ... ...
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