Publications: Legislature
Executive Summary
Introduction
I. Experiences of Institutional Development
1. The Scopes and Methods of Institutional Development of Parliaments
2. The Development in Internal Regulation of Parliament
3. The Development of the System of Parliamentary Committees
II. Practical Paradoxes and Problems
1. Practical Suggestions to Improve the Listening Committees Performance
2. The Development of Parliamentary Information and Research Units
3. Developing the Parliamentary Library
4. The Development of Parliamentary Training
5. The Development of Parliamentary Information
Epilogue: The Challenges and Important Domains of Institutional Development
Annex 1: Table of Committees Comparison
References
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A Development Agenda for Arab Parliaments
Symposium on Arab Parliamentary Development
by Dr. Ali El- Sawi
References
(i) David. M. Olson and Philip Norton, The New Parliaments of Central and Eastern Europe (London: Frank Cass, 1996); Attila Agh and Sandor Kurtan (eds.), The First Parliament (Budapest: Hungarian Center for Democracy Studies, 1995).
(ii) “Lawrence D. Longley and Attila Agh (eds.), The Changing Role of Parliamentary Committees, Working Papers of the 2nd International of the Research Committee of Legislative Specialists-RCLS, of the International Political Science Association-IPSA, held in Budapest, Hungary, June 20-22, 1996).
(iii) The Summary of the American System of Government, US Information Agency.
(iv) Lawrence D. Longley and Roger H. Davidson (eds.), The New Roles of Parliamentary Committees (London: Frank Cass, 1998).
(v) The System of Government in the United States of America (Translated by Dr. Jaber Awad, Cairo, the Egyptian Association for the Spread of International Knowledge and Culture, 1996) p. 158,159.
(vi) See for more detail on the role of parliamentary committees the collection of studies that appeared recently in: Lawrence D. Longley and Roger H. Davodson (eds.), The New Roles of Parliamentary Committees (London: Frank Cass, 1998).
(vii) Dr. Amr Ahmad Hisbo. Parliamentary Committees: a Comparative Study, p 87,88.
(viii) Same Source as (vii).
(ix) Malcolm Shaw, “ Parliamentary Committees: A Global Perspective”, in: Lawrence D. Longley and Roger H. Davidson (eds.), op.cit.,p. 240-247
(x) Summary of the American System of Government. US Information Agency.
(xi) Keith Krehbiel, Information and Legislative Organization (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1991).
(xii) Among which in the Arab World for example: The Egyptian Center of Economic Studies, The Lebanese Center of Studies (which publishes the series Lebanese Economic Forum).
(xiii) LOKA SABHA Secretariat, New Delhi, 1994, 1999.
(xiv) Sawsan El Hennawi, Legislative Library Services. A lecture given to the participants of “ The Program for the Formulation of Legislations” organized by the School of Economic and Political Studies for a group of members and officials of the Palestine National Council, February-March, 1999.
(xv) Hani Howrani “The Experience of the New Jordan Center of Studies”. A paper presented to the Workshop on “ Parliamentary Studies in the Arab World “, organized by the Arab Institute of Studies and Communication in cooperation with the School of Economic and Political Studies in Cairo, 14 -15 October, 1999.
(xvi) Nijad Al Bur'i “The Experience of the Parliamentary Observatory Dialogue Forum in Lebanon”. Two Papers presented to the above-mentioned workshop.
(xvii) Dr. Salwa Juma’a “ The Experience of the Training Program in Egypt”. A paper presented to the above-mentioned workshop.
(xviii) Dr. Nizam Barakat “The Experience of the Training Program in Jordan”, A paper presented to the above-mentioned workshop.
(xix) Jean El Hage “The Experience of the Training Program in Lebanon”. A paper presented to the above-mentioned project.
(xx) The School of Economic and Political Studies in Cairo University has created a Diploma in Parliamentary Studies as of 1999/2000, which is a higher diploma, accepting university graduates those especially working in parliaments , or researchers in higher studies and parliamentary journalists.
(xxi) Like the Experience of Egypt in this respect started by the Ministry of Youth in cooperation with the People's Council as of April, 2000.
(xxii) Source: a summary from a study undertaken by: The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, “Committees in Legislatures: A Division of Labor”, Legislative Research Series, Paper # 2,1996.

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