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Legislation
About: Legislation is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 62664 publications have been published within this topic receiving 585188 citations. The topic is also known as: law & act.
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TL;DR: Birkinshaw as discussed by the authors was a special adviser to the House of Commons Select Committee on Public Administration, which spent two years examining the UK government's proposals for freedom of information legislation.
Abstract: * Professor of Public Law and Director of the Institute of European Public Law, University of Hull, United Kingdom (UK), HU16 4AS: P.J.Birkinshaw^ull.ac.uk. Professor Birkinshaw is editor of the journal European Public Law and served as special adviser (1997-1999) to the House of Commons Select Committee on Public Administration, which spent two years examining the UK government's proposals for freedom of information legislation. He is currently working for the same Committee as a special adviser in its investigation into Political Memoirs. I am grateful to Professor Gary Edles for his comments and assistance. I am answerable alone for any faults.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop and test a political theory based on the views of legislators about the proper role of the federal government in regulating business, that seeks to explain patterns of support and opposition to legislative reforms, and conclude that the dominant factor explaining these patterns is support for New Deal regulatory policy.
Abstract: For a decade after the passage of the Second New Deal, political leaders and many important interest groups fiercely debated what procedural requirements, if any, should be imposed on the new regulatory agencies. This debate led eventually to the passage of the Administrative Procedures Act (APA) of 1946. The purpose of this article is to explain the significance of the various procedural requirements that were considered, and to develop and test a political theory of why some proposals were passed while others were rejected, and why a decade passed before legislation could succeed. Although the APA typically is seen as a codification of individual rights in a system or procedural due process, we argue that to answer these questions requires understanding the policy consequences of alternative procedural reforms. Thus we develop and test a political theory, based on the views of legislators about the proper role of the federal government in regulating business, that seeks to explain patterns of support and opposition to legislative reforms. We conclude that the dominant factor explaining these patterns is support for New Deal regulatory policy, and that the primary explanation for the failure of administrative reform proposals before World War II but their success later was the desire of New Deal Democrats to `hard wire` the policies of the New Deal against an expected Republican, anti-New Deal political tide in the late 1940s.
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TL;DR: The authors examine the processes by which states pass hate crime laws and argue that states' decisions to enact hate crime legislation are influenced by both state characteristics and the monitoring of the actio...
Abstract: We examine the processes by which states pass hate crime laws. We argue that states' decisions to enact such legislation are influenced by both state characteristics and the monitoring of the actio...
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TL;DR: In this article, the consequences of revising the harm done to women in prostitution into a consenting act are discussed. But they do not address the impact of such distinctions on women's health.
Abstract: International policies and legislation increasingly omit prostitution per se from the category of violence against women. Various governmental and non-governmental groups make efforts to distinguish and thus to legitimize certain practices of sexual exploitation, drawing distinctions, for example, between forced and free prostitution. These efforts culminated in lobbying for what would be finally included in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action that emerged from the Fourth World Women’s Conference in Beijing. This article addresses these efforts; the NGOs who advocate such distinctions; and the consequences of revising the harm done to women in prostitution into a consenting act.
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TL;DR: It is argued that policy-makers should view the NGI from a complex-adaptive systems (CAS) view and that the next generation of infrastructures will provide not only technological services, including connectivity and security, but also shared information and knowledge in various fields, thus making it easier to participate, translate legislation and manage collaboration between public and private parties and in this way advancing digital government.
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