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Publications: Legislature
 Executive Summary Introduction The Egyptian Case
The Government’s and Parliament’s Role
in the Legislative Process
The Parliament’s Legislative Activity during the
Sixth Legislative Phase (1990-1995)
The Parliament’s Legislative Activity in the
Seventh Legislative Phase (1995-2000)
Evaluating the Parliament’s Legislative Performance during the Study’s Duration
The Lebanese Case
The Legislative Power’s Composition
Assessment of the Lebanese Parliament’s Legislative Performance
The Kuwaiti Case
An Overview of the Relationship between Powers in the Kuwaiti Constitution
The Parliament’s Situation in the Kuwaiti Political System
The Decree on Women’s Political Rights as Part of
The Political Struggle between the Parliament and the Government
The Moroccan Case
The First Parliamentary Experience (1963-1965)
The Legislative Yield of the Third and Fourth Parliamentary Sessions (1977-1984), (1984-1992)
The Field and Limits of the Moroccan Parliament’s Jurisdictions
The Yemeni Case
The Nature of the Regime or the Political System in the Yemeni Republic
The First Parliamentary Council after Unification
The Second Council (1993-1997)
The 1997 Parliament
Conclusion
Notes
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by Dr. Azza Wehbe The Kuwaiti Case: Kuwait is the only Arab country, and may be the world’s only country, that adopts a mixed hereditary and parliamentary system, in which there are no political parties, and which does not give women and numerous sectors of Kuwaiti society the right to participate in political life. Kuwait is the only Gulf country in the Arab Peninsula—except for Yemen—that adopts a system based on the separation of powers but also on their cooperation (Article 50 of the Kuwaiti constitution, which discusses the regime’s democracy, whereby the nation is sovereign (Article 6 of the constitution) and is the source of all powers . Another source describes the Kuwaiti democratic experience as representing a special case of restricted pluralism lacking political parties in a country where tribal structure plays an influential role in political development . The above means that Kuwait’s parliamentary experience constitutes a phenomenon worth studying and in which the local and regional, the traditional and modern, and the constitutional and absolute right, interact .
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