Westminster and the Victorian Constitution

1992 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 79-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland Quinault
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
The Political ◽  
Constitutional History ◽  
House Of Commons ◽  
Public Buildings ◽  
Historical Society ◽  
Adjacent Buildings ◽  
Political Character

The British constitution is unwritten, but not unbuilt. The character of Britain's government buildings reflects the nature of its political system. This is particularly true with respect to the Houses of Parliament. They were almost entirely rebuilt after a fire, in 1834, which seriously damaged the House of Commons and adjacent buildings. The new Houses of Parliament were the most magnificent and expensive public buildings erected in Queen Victoria's reign. Their architectural evolution has been meticulously chronicled by a former Honorary Secretary of the Royal Historical Society, Professor Michael Port. But constitutionalists and historians have shewn little or no interest in the political character of the Victorian Houses of Parliament. Walter Bagehot, in his famous study, The English Constitution, published in 1867, made no reference to the newly completed Houses of Parliament. Likewise most modern books on Victorian political and constitutional history make no mention of die rebuilding.

Criminal Interests within Political Insurgencies

2016 ◽  
pp. 421-443
Author(s):  
Oscar Palma
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
The Political ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Foreign Intervention ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Ideal Framework ◽  
Political Character

Insurgencies are progressive and systematic insurrections with political aims. They are usually aimed at the creation of a new state, the liberation of a nation from foreign intervention, the transformation of the political system, or the imposition of a certain way of life. Whereas this political character sets them apart from common criminals, whose main objective is personal profit; in practice, most insurgencies are a combination of criminal and political interests. Solutions that address political grievances or criminal motivations separately, leaving one of them aside, are highly likely to fail, perpetuating violence. Development-centred counterinsurgency seems to be an ideal framework to confront this type of insurgencies. The case of Colombia is examined to observe achievements, failures and challenges.

THE MEANING OF ENTRANCE AND SCENERY SPACES IN THE LITHUANIAN ARCHITECTURE OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS OF 1960–1980S / ĮEIGŲ IR REGYKLŲ REIKŠMĖ LIETUVOS XX A. 7–9 DEŠIMTMEČIŲ VISUOMENINĖS PASKIRTIES PASTATŲ ARCHITEKTŪROJE

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-193
Author(s):  
Audrius Novickas
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Buildings ◽  
The Public ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
And Control

The paper explores the meaning of bridges, stairways, ramps as well as terraces, balconies, glass facades as emphasized in most important examples of Lithuanian modern architecture of 1960–1980s. These architectural elements are looked at as constitutive in design of entrance and scenery spaces of the public buildings of the period. The assumption is made that analysis of entrance and scenery spaces is instrumental in interpreting the program aspects of Lithuanian architecture of Soviet period in the broader contexts of modern paradigms, aims of the political system and aspirations of individual architects. The research is aimed to reveal the entrance and scenery space formats as embodying the architecture of power effects, signifying the system to discipline and control as well as skills of individual architects to embody sublime environments of aesthetic experience. Santrauka Straipsnyje nagrinėjama tiltų, laiptų, rampų, atvirų terasų ir balkonų, įstiklintų fasadų reikšmė svarbiausių XX a. 7–9 dešimtmečių Lietuvos visuomeninės paskirties pastatų architektūroje. Šie elementai tiriami kaip formuojantys pastatų įeigas ir regyklas. Daroma prielaida, kad įeigų ir regyklų analizė teikia pagrindą interpretuoti Lietuvos sovietinių metų moderniosios architektūros programinius aspektus platesniame epochos paradigmų, sistemos politinių tikslų ir individualių architektų meninių aspiracijų kontekste. Siekiama atskleisti, kad įeigos ir regyklos rodo visuomeninius pastatus esant kokybinio pokyčio proceso ir galios efektų erdvėmis, įkūnijančiomis ne tik sistemos siekį disciplinuoti ir kontroliuoti, bet ir architekto gebėjimą formuoti mėgavimosi estetiniais architektūros aspektais aplinkas.

scholarly journals Continuity and Change in the New Zealand Parliament

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
John Halligan
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Political System ◽  
The Political ◽  
House Of Commons ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Parliamentary System ◽  
The World ◽  
Successive Generations

<p>Few legislatures in the world can claim a continuous existence as long as that of the New Zealand House of Representatives. The basic forms and procedures inherited from the House of Commons in the middle of last centure have persisted until the present. Formal changes to the rules have occurred intermittently during its history although the content of its work has altered. Because of the centrality of the House to the parliamentary system of government and its adaptability to the needs of successive generations of politicians, it has continued to play an important role in the political system.</p>

scholarly journals Continuity and Change in the New Zealand Parliament

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
John Halligan
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Political System ◽  
The Political ◽  
House Of Commons ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Parliamentary System ◽  
The World ◽  
Successive Generations

<p>Few legislatures in the world can claim a continuous existence as long as that of the New Zealand House of Representatives. The basic forms and procedures inherited from the House of Commons in the middle of last centure have persisted until the present. Formal changes to the rules have occurred intermittently during its history although the content of its work has altered. Because of the centrality of the House to the parliamentary system of government and its adaptability to the needs of successive generations of politicians, it has continued to play an important role in the political system.</p>

The Recruitment of Candidates for the Canadian House of Commons

1968 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 1242-1257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan Kornberg ◽  
Hal H. Winsborough
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Political System ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
The Political ◽  
House Of Commons ◽  
World War ◽  
The Status ◽  
Substantial Progress ◽  
Party Activists ◽  
The Mean

Systematic empirical research into the process of political leadership recruitment has made substantial progress since World War II with emphasis given to those who occupy formal positions of authority within the political system, specifically, legislators and party activists. Generally such studies have been concerned with delineating (a) who the leaders are, (b) how and why they are where they are, and (c) the variables affecting (a) and (b).The most ambitious recent studies, in the sense that they try to deal systematically with all three aspects of recruitment, are those by Samuel J. Eldersveld, Austin Ranney, and Henry Valen. Their research, and the examples cited of other scholarship, have yielded a substantial number of propositions. Three which lend themselves to testing with data we have gathered on the recruitment of candidates for the Canadian House of Commons, 1945–65, are:1) The status of individuals recruited by a party in part is a function of the party's competitive positions. (Key, Snowiss).2) The status of individuals recruited by a party varies with the party's position on an ideological continuum (Eldersveld, Ranney, Marvick and Nixon, Valen).3) Relative urbanism and the degree of industrialization of communities affect recruitment patterns (Rokkan and Valen, Valen, Snowiss). In the present instance there should be a positive relationship between urbanism and the mean status of candidates.In testing these propositions we will compare, whenever such comparisons appear appropriate, the data for Canadian parliamentary candidates with findings from some of the previously cited studies and also indicate how, in Canada, multi-partyism is related to the status of recruited candidates.

Effect of the political system on perinatal and neonatal care in Berlin between 1950 and 2010

2015 ◽  
Vol 219 (S 01) ◽  
Author(s):  
J Grünwald ◽  
M Beer ◽  
S Mamay ◽  
F Rupp ◽  
J Stupin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Neonatal Care ◽  
The Political

Ein Ende mit Schrecken – Frankreich nach den Wahlen

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (188) ◽  
pp. 495-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Syrovatka
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Political Support ◽  
The Political ◽  
Parliamentary Elections ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Economic Transformations ◽  
Crisis Of Representation ◽  
Election Results ◽  
Deep Crisis

The presidential and parliamentary elections were a political earthquake for the French political system. While the two big parties experienced massive losses of political support, the rise of new political formations took place. Emmanuel Macron is not only the youngest president of the V. Republic so far, he is also the first president not to be supported by either one of the two biggest parties. This article argues that the election results are an expression of a deep crisis of representation in France that is rooted in the economic transformations of the 1970s. The article analyses the political situation after the elections and tries to give an outlook on further political developments in France.

Islamic and Jewish Religious Feminists Tackle Islamic and Jewish Oral Law: Maintenance and Rebellion of Wives

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-63
Author(s):  
Ruth Roded
Keyword(s):  
State Policy ◽  
Political System ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Jewish Law ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Parallel Case ◽  
First Time

Beginning in the early 1970s, Jewish and Muslim feminists, tackled “oral law”—Mishna and Talmud, in Judaism, and the parallel Hadith and Fiqh in Islam, and several analogous methodologies were devised. A parallel case study of maintenance and rebellion of wives —mezonoteha, moredet al ba?ala; nafaqa al-mar?a and nush?z—in classical Jewish and Islamic oral law demonstrates similarities in content and discourse. Differences between the two, however, were found in the application of oral law to daily life, as reflected in “responsa”—piskei halacha and fatwas. In modern times, as the state became more involved in regulating maintenance and disobedience, and Jewish law was backed for the first time in history by a state, state policy and implementation were influenced by the political system and socioeconomic circumstances of the country. Despite their similar origin in oral law, maintenance and rebellion have divergent relevance to modern Jews and Muslims.

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