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Author_David Arter
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Committee Bills
Committee Chairs
Committee Convenors
committee governance
committees
Communications Committee
comparative parliamentary committee analysis
comparative politics
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Equal Opportunities Committee
Executive Legislation
General Affairs Committee
Government Bills
Inter-party Negotiation
interparty bargaining
Interparty Negotiations
John McAllion
learning
legislative studies
lifelong
Lifelong Learning Committee
Nordic Parliaments
Nordic political systems
Open Hearings
parliamentary procedure
petitions
Pre-legislative Stage
Procedures Committee
public
Public Petitions Committee
riksdag
Riksdag Committees
Rural Development Committee
Scottish Committees
Scottish National Party
Scottish Parliament
Scottish Socialist Party
social
Social Affairs Committee
Swedish Parliament
system
Product details
- ISBN 9780714655673
- Weight: 740g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book is unique in analysing the new Scottish Parliament from a systematically comparative perspective. Its basic premise is that since devolution in 1999 Scotland can be considered a Scandinavian-style democracy with several features of a Scandinavian-style parliament. The basic research question, therefore, is: 'Has the Scottish Parliament in its first four-year term manifested a Scandinavian-style politics in the sense that there has been a high incidence of inter-party negotiation within Parliament?'
The architects of the Scottish Parliament saw the committees as the motor of a 'new politics' and gave them extensive powers. Outside Austria, only the Swedish and Icelandic committees have comparable powers. Accordingly, the study sets out to describe and analyse the workings of the committees in the Scottish, Swedish and Icelandic Parliaments. The concluding chapter also discusses the operation of the Danish, Finnish and Norwegian committees.
