Leveraging Legislative Power: Distributive Politics and Committee Work in Kenya’s National Assembly

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Ochieng' Opalo
Keyword(s):  
Distributive Politics ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
Legislative Power ◽  
Committee Work

scholarly journals NIGERIAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY’S LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT, THE POWERS OF SUMMONS AND APPOINTMENTS’ RATIFICATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 06 (01) ◽  
pp. 26-50
Author(s):  
Aduku A AKUBO ◽  
◽  
Kolapo Quadri ABAYOMI ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Public Interests ◽  
Public Funds ◽  
Secondary Research ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
Good Practices ◽  
Legislative Power ◽  
Legislative Oversight

The legislature as First Estate of the realm represents citizens and sovereignty. It makes the law, serve as checks on the activities of the executive (oversight) and represent the citizens in constituencies. The responsibility of the Parliaments is to guarantee that accountability and transparency of government activities are maintained in order to curb misuse of public funds, corruption, while effecting good practices. It also scrutinizes the nominees for top government positions by the executive arm while it ensures that the requests sent by the executive are properly examined in order to avoid inefficiency and non-performance. However, the paper relying on secondary research method and data gathering discover that limited political will by legislators, inadequate funds, deteriorating infrastructural facilities, pressure from the Executive, predominance of inexperience legislators in the art of lawmaking and the tendency to place a higher premium of personal and pecuniary interests at the expense of public interests are antithetical to the effective legislative power of summons and appointment ratification in the National Assembly. Therefore, the paper recommended that there is a need for legislators to shun mediocrity and rise above pecuniary, sectional and party interests in favour of the protection of democracy and its practices.

Wales and Northern Ireland

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Power Sharing ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
Freedom Of Information Act ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
Legislative Power ◽  
Belfast Agreement ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Way

Chapter 24 explains how the Freedom of Information Act 2000 applies to Wales and Northern Ireland. It describes the scheme of devolution for Wales with the National Assembly for Wales and the Welsh Government and the way legislative power has been increased by the Government of Wales Act 2006 and how a reserved powers model of devolution has been agreed in a Command Paper Powers for a purpose: Towards a lasting devolution settlement for Wales. Next, the way freedom of information works in Wales is considered. The chapter then describes the scheme of devolution for Northern Ireland established following the Belfast Agreement on Friday 10 April 1998, including the Northern Ireland Assembly and the National Ireland Executive structured to ensure power-sharing and inclusivity. Section 88(2) of the 2000 Act states that the Act extends to Northern Ireland. Finally, the specific references to Northern Ireland in the 2000 Act are considered.

scholarly journals National Assembly Make Law or Cease The Making Law

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Dang Dung ◽  
Nguyen Thuy Duong
Keyword(s):  
Judicial Power ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
Legislative Power ◽  
Doi Moi ◽  
The People ◽  
Legislative Branch ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Right

Although there has not been a reform like executive and judicial power , since the “Doi Moi” reform until now, the National Assembly - the legislative branch of Vietnamese government has achieved certain successes, but to implement 2013 Constitution better, there ‘s still a lot of work to do. First of all, we have to change our awareness: Legislative power is not simply the right to adopt a law, but also the right to suspend law drafting when the laws do not express the will of the people, nor do they reflect objective movement of society. Keywords: National Assembly, legislative power, right to cease the making law.

scholarly journals Installing a More Coercive Senate for Enhanced Fiscal Capacity within the Counties of Kenya

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-168
Author(s):  
Melissa Mungai
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
National Level ◽  
Fiscal Capacity ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
Legislative Power

The clamour to divest the Kenyan parliament of its senate has been championed by a handful of critics who describe this parliamentary house as weak and a burden to taxpayer money. The root of such conclusions could be that the senate has legislative power that is less clear than that of the national assembly. With clearer and enhanced authority, the senate will be able to carry out its function of representing county interests at the national level effectively, more so with regard to the vertical and horizontal allocation of revenue. This paper seeks to make an argument in favour of the senate by illustrating its significant role as the custodian of devolution in Kenya and more specifically in the building of county fiscal capacity.

The Constitution of China

1924 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 346-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold Scott Quigley
Keyword(s):  
National Assembly ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Committee Work ◽  
The Republic Of China ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Revolution

On October 10, 1923, the permanent constitution of the republic of China was promulgated. The “Double Ten,” already a national commemoration day, becomes fittingly the date of the long-awaited culmination of the constitutional movement inaugurated by the revolution of 1911. Although the national assembly was the same legislature which, sitting as a constituent body, completed the first draft of the constitution in 1913 and passed the larger part of it through its second reading in 1916–17, the actual periods devoted to committee work and discussion were limited to the time, not amounting altogether to three years, during which the assembly was permitted by military and political exigencies to remain in session.

Welsh Politics after the EU Referendum

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Osmond
Keyword(s):  
Effective Leadership ◽  
Strong Sense ◽  
Speaking Up ◽  
Common Cause ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Eu Referendum ◽  
Welsh Politics ◽  
Plaid Cymru ◽  
The Eu

This paper examines the electoral and ideological contest that has taken place between Welsh Labour and Plaid Cymru in the five National Assembly elections that have been held between 1999 and 2016. Both parties have found success when they have managed to combine effective leadership with a coherent programme and a strong sense of Welsh identity. However, the Welsh vote to leave the EU in the June 2016 referendum has dealt both parties a poor hand in speaking up for Welsh interests. Can they find a common cause in working together and also with Scotland to take Wales forward in a progressive constitutional direction?

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