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Parliamentary Practices in Devolved Parliaments
 
 
7: Bibliography
 
Sources : general
 
Books, articles, etc.
Daniel Elazar, Federal Systems of the World, Harlow, 1991.
Alan Norton, International Handbook of Local and Regional Government, London 1994.
Robert Leonardi (ed), The Regions and the European Community, London 1993.
Stephen Tindale (ed), The State and the Nation, London 1996.
Eberhard Bort & Neil Evans (ed) Networking Europe, (to be published, Liverpool, 1998).
M. Keating & B. Jones, (ed) The European Union and the Regions, Oxford, 1995.
Hesse & Wright, Federalising Europe, Oxford, 1996.
 
Contacts
Thomas Fischer, European Centre for Federalism, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tubingen
Andrew Bennett, Edinburgh University
Eberhard Bort, Edinburgh University
John Clifford, Consultant on Austria
 
Sources : Mainstreaming equal opportunities
 
Books, articles, etc.
Men and Women in Politics: Democracy Still in the Making: A World Comparative Study, IPU, Geneva, 1997
Mainstreaming gender equality in local government Equal Opportunities Commission, London 1997
Men and Women in European Municipalities, Papers from the Seminar, Sintra, 20 - 21 April, 1997, CEMR, Brussels, 1997
Briefing Paper on Mainstreaming, Equal Opportunities Commission, London,1997 Wooding, Neil ,
Ensuring fair and equal treatment for all in the National Assembly for Wales, in Seminar Series The National Assembly’s Agenda, Institute of Welsh Affairs, forthcoming publication, Autumn 1998
 
Internet
 
Canada http://www.canada.gc.ca
 
Quebec Government http://www.gouv.gc.ca
 
Quebec National Assembly http://www.asnat.gc.ca
 
British Columbia http://www.legis.gov.bc.ca
 
Denmark http://www.folkotinget.dk
 
Sweden http://www.riksdagen.se
 
Norway http://www.storting.no http://admin.dep.no/publ/likebro/politics.html
 
Germany http://www.bundesregierung.de
 
Spain-Catalonia http://www.gencat.es
 
South Africa http://www.polity.org.za/gnu/gnu.index.html http://www.sacs.org.za
 
CEMR/CCRE http://www.ccre.org
 
IPU http://www.ipu.org
 
Contacts / Interviews
 
Ulf Christofferson, Deputy Secretary General, Swedish Riksdag, 6/8/98
Anita Blomberg, Department of Information, Stortinget, 6/8/98
Lipo Pohjola, Chief Information Officer, Parliament of Finland, 7/8/98
Dr Francisco Marcelli, Head of Public Information, Italian Senate, 6/8/98
Robin Wilson, Director, Democratic Dialogue, 6/8/98
Itziar Fernandez Mendizibal, Secretary General of Emakunde, 5/8/98
Isabelle Ebens,First Advisor, Walloon Parliament, 18/8/98
Martha Franken, Coordination Department, Ministry of the Flemish Community, 22/10/98
Val Feld, Director (Wales), Equal Opportunities Commission, 18/8/98
 
Primary Documents
 
Reglement de Parlement Wallon, Walloon Parliament, 1997
Northern Ireland Bill, Bill 241,52/1, Part I p1-2 & Part VI, HMSO, 1998
The Gender Equality Act 1996, South African Parliament, 1996
III Plan de Accion Positiva para las Mujeres en la Comunidad Autonoma de Euskadi, Emakunde, Bilbao, Feb 1996
Incorporating equal opportunities for women and men into all Community policies and objectives, Progress report from the Commission, Communication , 4/3/98
 
Sources : Lobbying practices
 
Books, articles, etc.
Ethics Manual for Members, Officers and Employees of US House of Representatives, 100th Congress, First Session, 1987
Crick, B & D. Millar, To Make the Parliament of Scotland A Model for Democracy, John Wheatley Centre, 1995
Davies, Malcolm, Politics of Pressure, The Art of Lobbying, BBC, London 1995
King, A (Ed.), The New American Political System, AEI, 1990
Marsh, D & Rhodes, RAW (Eds)., Policy Networks in British Government, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1992
The Washington Lobby, Congressional Quarterly Press, 5th Ed. Washington, 1987
Darke, M, Lobbying in Australia, Public Affairs Newsletter, Vol.4 No.5, February 1998
Palast, G, The American Way of Influence, The Observer, 19 July 1998
Rush, M, Registering the Lobbyists: Lessons from Canada, Political Studies, No.4, Dec 1994
Rush, M, The Canadian Experience: The Lobbyists Registration Act, Parliamentary Affairs, Nov/Dec 1998
 
Internet
Australia http://www.aph.gov.au
Canada http://www.canada.gc.ca
Germany http://www.bundesregierung.de
USA http//:clerkmeb.house.gov/lrc/pd/lobby
 
Contacts / Interviews
Anita Blomberg, Department of Information, Stortinget, 6/8/98
Ulf Christofferson, Deputy Secretary General, Swedish Riksdag, 6/8/98
Telephone interview with Patrick Jeandrain, Senior Consultant, Attitudes Public Relations, Brussels, 6/8/98
Dr Francisco Marcelli, Head of Public Information, Italian Senate, 6/8/98
Lipo Pohjola, Chief Information Officer, Parliament of Finland, 7/8/98
Annelise Quistorff, Information Department, Folketinget, 6/8/98
Gemma Swart, PS Communication Ltd., 3/8/98
Robin Wilson, Director, Democratic Dialogue, 6/8/98
 
Primary Documents
Lobbyists Registration Act, 1988, Parliament of Canada
Lobbying Disclosure Act ,1995, US Congress
Directorate -General for Committees and Delegations, Rules on lobbying and intergroups in the national parliaments of the Member States, Committee on the Rules of Procedure, 17 October 1996, EN\CM\310\310880
Report on the Code of Conduct governing lobbyists, Committee on the Rules of Procedure, the Verification of Credentials and Immunities, European Parliament, EN\RR\324\324166
Second Report on amendment of Annex I of the Rules of Procedure concerning transparency and Members’ Financial Interests, 30 May 1996, European Parliament, DOC-EN\RR\303\303621
Select Committee on Members’ Interests, Third Report, Parliamentary Lobbying, 1990 - 1991, HC586
First Report of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, Standards in Public Life, Vol 1:Report, Cm 2850-I, 1995
 
Sources : Belgium
 
Books, articles, etc.
Information Dossier of the Walloon Parliament, Namur (undated)
Parlement Wallon, Namur (undated Note)
Femmes Elues/Vrouwelijke verkozenen (Women elected), Council for Equal Opportunities between Men and Women (undated)
Le Parlement Bruxellois, Council of Brussels-Capital Region, Brussels, 1997
 
Primary documents
Reglement de Parlement Wallon (Standing Orders of the Walloon Parliament)
Conseil de la Region de Bruxelles-Capital : Reglement (Standing Orders of the Council of Brussels-Capital Region)
 
Contacts
Henri Caers, Director, Secretariat General, Council of Brussels-Capital Region
 
Sources : Canada
Books, articles,etc.
Gary Levy & Graham White (ed), Provincial and Territorial Legislatures in Canada, Toronto 1989
 
Internet
Quebec National Assembly http://www.assnat.qc.ca
Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly http://legassembly.sk.ca
 
Sources : Germany
 
Books, articles, etc.
Klaus Michael Miebach, Federalism in Germany, Bonn, 1997.
Nevil Johnson, State and Government in the Federal Republic of Germany : the Executive at Work, Oxford 1983.
Charlie Jeffery and Peter Savigear (ed)., German Federalism Today, Leicester and London, 1991.
Department of Press and Public Relations of the State Parliament of Lower Saxony, The State Parliament of Lower Saxony, Hanover, 1998.
The Saxon State Parliament, Dresden, 1997.
 
Primary documents
Constitution of the Schleswig-Holstein Land
Constitution of Lower Saxony (as amended)
Standing Orders of the Land Parliament of Schleswig-Holstein
Verfassung des Freistaates Sachsen (Constitution of Free State of Saxony), Dresden, 1992
Geschäftsordnung des Saechsischen Landtages (Standing Orders of Saxony Land Parliament), Dresden (undated)
Geschäftsordnung der Hamburgen Buergerschaft (Standing Orders of Hamburg Land Parliament), Hamburg, 1998
 
Contacts
Dr. Gruss, Upper Saxony Land Parliament
Frank Fechner, Press & Public Affairs Manager, City Chancellory, City of Hamburg
Hans-Friedrich Fensch, Land Parliament of Schleswig-Holstein
Dr. Heltig, Land Parliament of Saxony
 
Sources : Scandinavia (general)
 
Books, articles, etc.
David Arter, The Nordic Parliaments, A Comparative Analysis, London 1984
Constitution Unit, Checks and Balances in Single Chamber Parliaments : A Comparative Study
 
Sources : Denmark
 
Primary documents
Greenland Home Rule Act, 1978
Faroe Islands Home Rule Act, 1948
 
Sources: Finland
 
Books, articles, etc.
Marlene Ohberg (ed) The Aland Islands Demilitarized Region, Mariehamn 1995.
New Autonomy Act for Aland, Aland Parliament, Mariehamn 1993.
Kristina Beihar et al, Life in two languages-the Finnish experience, Espoo, 1997
 
Contacts
Ilkka Salmi, Head of Office, Brussels Office of the Parliament of Finland, 25/11/98
 
Internet
Parliament of Finland http://www.eduskunta.fin
 
Sources : Norway
 
Internet
Parliament of Norway http://www.stortinget.no
 
Sources : Sweden
 
Internet
Swedish Parliament http://www.riksdagen.se
 
Sources: Spain
 
Books, articles, etc.
The Parliament of Catalonia, The Parliament of Catalonia, Barcelona, 1997
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Autonomous Communities, Madrid, 1994
Paul Heywood, The Government and Politics of Spain, London, 1995
Spain : A Guide to Political and Economic Institutions, Cambridge, 1987
 
Primary documents
The Constitution of Spain, 1978
Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona, The Catalan Statute of Autonomy, 1993
Reglamento del Parlamento Vasco (Standing Orders of the Basque Parliament), Vitoria, 1994
The Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country, Basque Parliament, undated
Generalitat de Catalunya, Action Plan of the Government of Catalonia for the Equality of Opportunities for Women 1989 - 1992, Barcelona 1989
Generalitat de Catalunya, Action Plan of the Autonomous Government of Catalonia for the Equality of Opportunities for Women 1994 - 1996, Barcelona 1994
 
Internet
Parliament of Catalonia http://www.gencat.es
Basque Parliament http://parlamento.euskadi.net
 
Contacts
Protocol, Press, and Auxiliary Services, Basque Parliament
Anna Fornesa, Head of Public Relations and Information, Parliament of Catalonia
 
Sources : Italy
 
Books, articles, etc.
David Hine, Governing Italy: the Politics of Bargained Pluralism, Oxford 1993
Paul Furlong, Modern Italy, London 1994
Italian Regionalism: History, Identity, and Politics ed. Carl Levy, Oxford 1996
Comitato d’Ente per Le Pari Opportunitā, L’attivitā del Comitato Pari Opportunitā della Regione Toscana, Florence, 1998
 
Primary documents
The Constitution of the Italian Republic
Statuto della Regione Toscana (undated)
 
Contacts
Vannino Chiti, President, Regional Giunta of Tuscany, letter and note 2 October 1998
Fulvio Carofolini, President of the Regional Council of Liguria, letter 29 August 1998
 
Sources : Islands (general)
 
Books, articles, etc.
Allan Macartney (ed) Islands of Europe, Edinburgh, 1984
 

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