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PARLIAMENT AND DEMOCRACY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY:
A GUIDE TO GOOD PRACTICE


Table of online contents


Guide
Acknowledgements
Preface
Foreword
Executive summary
  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. A REPRESENTATIVE PARLIAMENT
  3. A PARLIAMENT THAT IS OPEN AND TRANSPARENT
  4. AN ACCESSIBLE PARLIAMENT
  5. A PARLIAMENT THAT IS ACCOUNTABLE
  6. AN EFFECTIVE PARLIAMENT (I): THE NATIONAL LEVEL
  7. AN EFFECTIVE PARLIAMENT (II): PARLIAMENT'S INVOLVEMENT IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
  8. FACING THE FUTURE
Annexes
Parliaments providing submissions to the Guide
Working Group on Parliaments’ contribution to democracy
Legislative strengthening organisations

Figures and boxes
Figure 1.1: Framework: the parliamentary contribution to democracy
Figure 2.1: World average of women in parliaments, 1995 - 2006
Figure 2.2: Regional averages of women in parliaments, 1995, 2000 and 2005
Figure 3.1: First main source of information for national and international news per region
Figure 3.2: Internet usage statistics
Figure 3.3: A Day in Parliament Comic Book
Figure 5.1: Trust in national institutions: regional averages
Figure 7.1: Synchronising legislative-executive coordination with specific points in the PRSP cycle
Figure 8.1: Sources of Parliamentary Reform
Box: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Article 25
Box: Election results in India and the United Kingdom
Box: IPU recommendations on good practice for parliamentary websites
Box: Extract from handbook on Making a Submission to a Parliamentary Select Committee

Illustrations

Written and edited by David Beetham
Copyright © Inter-Parliamentary Union 2006
All rights reserved
ISBN: 92-9142-297-5

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