European Affairs within the Chamber of Deputies

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Chamber Of Deputies

Policy analysis in the Chamber of Deputies

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Velazquez Lopez Velarde
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Rubber Stamp ◽  
Lower Chamber ◽  
Legislative Policy ◽  
Mexican Congress ◽  
Chamber Of Deputies

Until the 1990s, the Mexican Congress functioned as a rubber-stamp institution whose main function was the approval of the presidents’ bills. The subordination of Congress to the executive branch produced, among other effects, the hindering of legislative policy analysis. Since government agencies had control over the policy process, it was not necessary for legislators neither to become policy specialists nor to invest resources and time in the development of professional staffs that could carry out policy analysis on diverse areas. However, as the process of democratization advanced, legislators started to create research centers and established civil service systems in order to professionalize the staff that supports legislative work. This chapter provides an assessment of the congressional policy analysis carried out in Mexico by focusing on the lower chamber (Chamber of Deputies) of the federal Congress. It argues that research centres and legislative committees perform three types of policy analysis. The limited functioning of the civil service system, the politicization of legislative staff, and low salaries are the main factors that undermine the quality of policy analysis in the Chamber of Deputies.

scholarly journals Transferencias de recursos y partidos políticos. Estudio de los municipios mexicanos

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
Author(s):  
Silverio Tamez Garza ◽  
Adriana Verónica Hinojosa Cruz ◽  
Carlos Augusto Jiménez Zárate
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
The Political ◽  
Allocation Of Resources ◽  
Partido Revolucionario Institucional ◽  
Chamber Of Deputies

Abstract. In this paper we analyze how much influence the political party with the largest nationwide (Partido Revolucionario Institucional: PRI) in the Congress, specifically the House of Representatives, in the distribution of the Funds of Branch 23: Paving Fund and Sports Spaces for Municipalities, for the year 2010 which is when this fund was created and for the year 2011. The results of our analysis were that there is a positive impact in the influence ofthe political party with the largest presence in the Chamber of Deputies in the allocation of resources to those municipalities that are governed by mayors from the PRI.Keywords: municipalities, paving and spaces fund goods, political parties, populationResumen. En el presente artículo se analiza la influencia que puede presentar laconfiguración de la Cámara de Diputados con una mayoría por partido en la asignación de recursos hacia las entidades federativas y municipios. Se tomó el caso del Fondo de Pavimentación y Espacios Deportivos para Municipios comparando la distribución en el año de su creación (2010) cuando no se emitieron reglas para su acceso con el siguiente año (2011) tomando en cuenta nuevos criterios. El resultado que nos arroja nuestro análisis es que existe una incidencia positiva en cuanto a la influencia política que se ejerce cuando unexiste mayoría en la representación partidista en la Cámara de Diputados.Palabras clave: fondo de pavimentación y espacios deportivos, municipios, partidos políticos, población

scholarly journals DA GÊNESE AO FUNCIONAMENTO DE UMA COMISSÃO PERMANENTE NA CÂMARA DOS DEPUTADOS (FROM THE GENESIS TO THE OPERATION OF A PERMANENT COMMITTEE ON THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES)

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (18) ◽  
pp. 101-119
Author(s):  
Thais Teixeira Santos
Keyword(s):  
Chamber Of Deputies

Este artigo visa estudar a formação de uma Comissão Permanente no âmbito da Câmara dos Deputados. Avalia-se desde a criação, incluindo motivações políticas e institucionais, até o efetivo funcionamento deliberativo da Comissão de Defesa dos Direitos da Pessoa com Deficiência na Câmara dos Deputados, além da estrutura organizacional necessária para isso. Apresentam-se aspectos como o sistema brasileiro de comissões permanentes e a ação de atores legislativos neste contexto. Por fim, pondera-se a resposta dada pela Câmara dos Deputados a uma demanda crescente detectada na sociedade, qual seja, a promoção dos direitos da pessoa com deficiência, com observação sobre a conexão entre os atores envolvidos e o processo decisório. 

scholarly journals Socio-political-environmental perceptions of participants in the public hearings of the Brazilian Representative House on Environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Teixeira de Barros
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Environmental Perceptions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Public Hearings ◽  
Chamber Of Deputies

Abstract The article analyzes the perceptions of the citizens who participated in the public hearings promoted by the Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development (CMADS) of the Chamber of Deputies during the year 2018. The methodology consisted in the use of a questionnaire with open and closed questions applied to a sample of 71.22% of the public that was present at these events. For the study of perceptions, open questions are particularly relevant, since they consist of arguments, analyzes and justifications presented by citizens, based on the experience of participating. The conclusions show that a diversity of citizens’ perceptions of the CMADS agenda, the topics under debate and the participation of technicians and representatives of entities from the environmental field. On the other hand, there are critical opinions in relation to the performance of parliamentarians, representatives of government agencies and the dynamics of debates.

Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Obojga Narodów 1572–1668

2021 ◽  
Vol 6(167) ◽  
pp. 85-114
Author(s):  
Edward Opaliński
Keyword(s):  
Degradation Process ◽  
Lower Chamber ◽  
First Time ◽  
Upper Chamber ◽  
State Territory ◽  
Chamber Of Deputies

In 1572–1668 the Sejm of the Commonwealth of Two Nations underwent constant evolution. The greatest changes occurred at the time of the first interregnum (1572–74) after the death of the last Jagiellonian monarch – Zygmunt Augustus (1572). This was the time of the emergence of two types of new Sejms (convocation and election ones), functioning exclusively during the interregnum. The Henrician Articles (1574) resolved that the Sejm was to debate only for six weeks, and that the monarch was compelled to convoke it at least once every two years. The extraordinary Sejm was established in 1613 – it could be convened in cases of urgent needs and it sat for two or three weeks. The Parliament was composed of three estates: the king, the Senate, and the deputies as well as two chambers. The upper chamber (Senate) consisted of senators nominated by the monarch on a lifelong basis, and the lower chamber (Chamber of Deputies) – of deputies of the noble estate elected at pre-Sejm sejmiks (Polish: sejmiki). An integral part of the Parliament was composed of the Sejm court, both appellant and trying gravest crimes. The Crown and Lithuanian Tribunal, established in 1578–81, assumed appellation competences from the Sejm court. Tribunal judges were elected every year for a year-long term of office at special sejmiks known as deputational or deputy (judicial), which constituted a forum; here deputies presented to the voters accounts of their parliamentary activity. At the turn of 1591, post-Sejm or relational (debriefing) sejmiks were convened after the closure of the Sejm debates; here deputies presented reports concerning their parliamentary activities. The growing composition of the Parliament was associated with an expansion of state territory as a result of victorious wars waged against Muscovy. New bishoprics, voivodeships, and sejmiki were established. There were 140 senators in 1572, and 150 during the 1630s. Analogously, the number of deputies grew from 166 to 180. The Sejm acted upon the basis of a consensus, and thus was obligated to take into account the stand of the minorities. In 1652, the protest of a single deputy for the first time rendered further Sejm debates impossible. From then on, the Polish-Lithuanian Parliament constantly succumbed to a degradation process.

The “Clerical Peril” and Radical Opposition to Female Voters in France

2018 ◽  
pp. 133-176
Author(s):  
Dawn Langan Teele
Keyword(s):  
Majority Vote ◽  
Electoral Politics ◽  
Women's Suffrage ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Right ◽  
Women’S Suffrage ◽  
Chamber Of Deputies

This chapter presents a case study of women's enfranchisement in France. It considers evidence for the role religious cleavage played in hampering French suffrage politics. It argues that Catholicism influenced both the incentives of leaders in the Radical Party and the motivations of women who were suffragists. The first section delves into the rules governing electoral politics and the groups that were empowered throughout the period. The second section gives a brief introduction to the campaign for women's suffrage in France after 1870. The third section analyzes the failure of suffrage reform in the French legislature. In 1919, when a bill for women's suffrage was debated in the Chamber of Deputies, an amalgamation of Socialists, conservative republicans, some Radicals, and parties of the right brought it to a majority vote. But many among the Radicals, and nearly every member of Georges Clemenceau's cabinet, voted against the measure.

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