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TOOLS FOR PARLIAMENTARY OVERSIGHT
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Year of publication: 2008 PDF Versions
FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS. NEW EXPANDED EDITION
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Year of publication: 2006 PDF Versions THE HOUSE OF PARLIAMENTS, SEEN BY JEAN MOHR
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Written by Mr. Marc Van der Hulst, Chief of the Legal Service of the Belgian Chamber of Deputies.
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Year of publication: 2000 PDF Version
The word democracy is one of the most used terms of the political vocabulary and, while it has given rise to much comment and reflection over the years, no text was ever adopted at the world level by politicians to define its parameters or establish its scope.
This was changed when the IPU Council adopted the Universal Declaration on Democracy at its session in Cairo (September 1997). The Declaration was the end result of a process in which leading personalities, representative of the different geopolitical currents, participated with their views and suggestions on the principles and achievement of democracy.
The text of the Declaration and the written contributions of the eleven experts are contained in this publication.
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Year of publication: 1998 PDF version
This IPU-commissioned work, by Professor Guy S. Goodwin-Gill, of Oxford University (United Kingdom), provides a comprehensive review of practical problems and solutions relating to the financing of elections, media coverage, election observation, campaign practices and the institutionalisation of the electoral process.
Skilfully combining elements of law and practice, the study also offers a model code of conduct and contains a number of annexed texts which have served as codes in various countries.
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Year of publication: 1998 PDF version
The Speakers of representative Assemblies occupy a privileged place in Parliaments which could not work without them. In most countries, they rank very high in the State hierarchy and are invested with important authority under national Constitutions.
Written by Mr Georges Bergougnous, Head of the Legal Department of the French Constitutional Council, this book aims to define the status of presiding officers and their functions before attempting to determine their place and role in the institutions.
This comparative study - prepared on the basis of material contained in the database established by the Inter-Parliamentary Union called PARLINE, Parliaments on line - includes invaluable information on 150 Chambers which replied to a detailed questionnaire on this specific topic.
Year of publication: 1997 PDF version
Free and Fair Elections: International Law and Practice seeks to establish the content of the rules and standard of international law pertaining to free and fair elections, with special attention to State practice. It therefore makes selective and illustrative comparisons of electoral laws and practices and includes the experience of a number of observer and technical assistance missions to States in transition to representative democracy.
Written by Professor Guy S. Goodwin-Gill of Carleton University (Canada), the book also contains the text of the Declaration on criteria for free and fair elections adopted by the world inter-parliamentary community in Paris in March 1994.
Written by Victor-Yves Ghebali, Professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, this book traces the work carried out by the IPU in the field of European co-operation and security over a 20-year period commencing before the openingof the intergovernmental negotiations that led up to the CSCE. It reviews the seven Conferences held between 1973 and 1991 and makes a systematic comparison between the progress made on the various issues at the inter-parliamentary and intergovernmental levels.
The five sections of the book are devoted to the birth of the inter-parliamentary process, its chronological development, working methods, recommendations and its follow-up mechanism. The final documents adopted by each of the seven Conferences feature in extenso as Annexes.
Prepared by Leandro Despouy, an expert in human rights matters and a member of the United Nations Sub-commission on Human Rights, this work covers the activity of the Committee from its first session in January 1977 to its 60th session in February 1993.
The book sets out the characteristics of the procedure for dealing with communications received by the Union, the bodies which contribute to its working and the dynamics of its operation. It also highlights the wealth of the Committee's "jurisprudence" as regards the situations dealt with and the rights protected: right to life, right to a fair trial, political rights, other rights particular to MPs, etc.
The stock having been exhausted, this publication is no longer available.
A History of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, by Yéfime Zarjevski. Published to mark the Centenary of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, this book retraces the most important steps taken by the founders of the Union and their successors to promote the ideals of peace and of the settlement of international disputes through arbitration and negotiation.
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By Philip Laundy, Clerk Assistant of the Canadian House of Commons.
The author explores the diversity of parliaments and electoral systems. He analyses the role of parliaments in relation to the structure of governments as well as their functions and activities. The book provides information on the work of parliaments, on committee systems, on parliamentary immunities, parliamentary staff and services. 1989, 166 pages. Published to mark the Centenary of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
The English edition is only available directly from Bookpoint Ltd.,
Based on data gathered in 1984/85 and published in 1986, this comparative study in two volumes (1422 p.) includes a series of 47 tables and accompanying texts which examine the composition, organization and operation of 83 parliaments representing all institutional systems existing at that time.
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