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Spanish Parliamentarism
Spanish parliamentarism is a tradition of political representation, legislative activity and governmental control, or parliamentary control of the government, that dates back to the medieval ''Cortes (politics), Cortes'' and the Ancien Régime, in a manner equivalent to the parliamentary system of other Western European nation-states (the Parliament of England or the Estates General (France), Estates General of France). Studies The Salón de Cortes, meeting places, parliamentary Convention (norm), customs and habits, and the practice of parliamentary debates with their consequent oratory, constitute the most visible formal aspects of that tradition. Several Prosopography, prosopographical studies have been carried out on the Legislator, deputies, Senate, senators or procurators in Cortes —and in general, of the bureaucratic elites— in different periods, detecting the systematic repetition of the same families —representing different parties—, in addition to other profes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Representation
Political representation is the activity of making citizens "present" in public policy-making processes when political actors act in the best interest of citizens. This definition of political representation is consistent with a wide variety of views on what representing implies and what the duties of representatives are. For example, representing may imply acting on the expressed wishes of citizens, but it may alternatively imply acting according to what the representatives themselves judge is in the best interests of citizens. And representatives may be viewed as individuals who have been authorized to act on the behalf of others, or may alternatively be viewed as those who will be held to account by those they are representing. Political representation can happen along different units such as social groups and area, and there are different types of representation such as substantive representation and descriptive representation. Views of political representation Under the '' ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
