We contribute to the scientific debate by studying storylines, discourses and related normative judgments in parliamentary motions private members of Swedish parliament from time period 2010–2019. The paper makes use an ecofeminist theoretical framework problematize these judgments. conclude that focus material is on economic technical issues, while issues justice play a marginal role. None imp...

While the origins of Scots law's unique “not proven” verdict in criminal cases are well-documented, there has been no systematic examination its use and interpretation over time. Although frequently subject controversy courts, legal journals or public debate, analysis it tended to be sporadic focused on specific controversies arising at given points As a result, discussions about verdict's futu...

-Political redistricting involves the amalgamation of a large number of geographic or statistical units into a smaller set of electoral districts such that the districts satisfy various criteria prescribed by law, judicial mandate, or historical precedent. This paper describes a network-based optimization model that is currently being used by governmental decision-makers in New Zealand to assis...

Subtitling is a useful technique to fulfil the information needs of deaf and hearing impaired people. Live subtitling is needed especially for live events and is not restricted to television, but can also be provided to persons on site, e.g. to a deaf politician during a parliamentary debate. Live subtitling is demanding since the audio information has to be transformed into text within a few s...

It is a longstanding debate whether members of parliament (MPs) should be allowed to follow sideline jobs in addition to their mandate. Critics claim that politicians already face binding time constraints and that moonlighting might lead to a neglect of inner-parliamentary duties. The purpose of this study is therefore to investigate whether politicians with more sideline jobs show less effort ...

The level and causes of party unity are under researched topics in parliamentary democracies, particularly in comparative perspective. This article presents a non formal model explaining party unity in legislative voting as the result of individual legislators’ decisions reacting to the incentives and constraints created by their respective institutional environments. Hypotheses derived from th...

In 2002 Quebec's National Assembly hosted an international conference on the history of parliamentary libraries. On that occasion, Gaston Bernier called for more research on the history of parliamentary libraries , inviting researchers to make use of the rich and unexplored archives of parliamentary libraries throughout the world (2003). This historical overview features some of the most promin...

Abstract In recent decades, poverty has increasingly been marginalised in Australian policy discourse. One strategy used by social justice advocates to revitalise a agenda the annual Anti‐Poverty Week campaign, which aims stimulate community debate around innovations relieve poverty. This paper analyses Commonwealth parliamentary debates Anti ‐ Poverty for 10 years from 2012 2021. We analyse an...