- Identify the key texts that outline gender sensitive parliamentary norms
- Identify, in their own parliamentary contexts, key decision makers and influencers that will support gender sensitive change
- Critically assess the merits and applicability to their own parliamentary context of gender sensitive changes that have been adopted elsewhere
- Design and defend a contextually-appropriate gender sensitive parliamentary change.
This course aims to provide the foundations, vocabulary, tools, and ‘good practice’ examples necessary for parliamentary staff across differing socio-economic contexts to engage more actively in matters of the national budget.
At the end of this course, learners should have developed
- Understanding of the key societal changes that have affected representation in recent decades;
- Understanding of the key role played by modern parliaments in representation;
- Knowledge and understanding of the five core processes of representation;
- Ability to identify and critically evaluate examples of best practice in representation; and
- Ability to critically reflect on their own practices of representation.
This course was written by Professor Cristina Leston-Bandeira, University of Leeds.
At the end of this course, you will better understand:
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Why we practice parliamentary oversight (theory)
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What parliamentary oversight is and is not (the tools)
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How parliamentary oversight is carried out (the practice)
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The implications of parliamentary oversight (the politics)
Throughout, you will be able to explore a wide range of case studies from across Europe and beyond.
This course was written by Associate Professor Dr. Olivier Rozenberg, Sciences Po.
At the end of this course, you will better understand:
- Why parliaments engage on climate change
- The (international) legal framework
- Parliamentary action on climate change
- Climate budgeting and climate finance
- Parliamentary practice on climate change
Throughout, you will be able to explore a wide range of case studies from across Europe and beyond.
The course consists of 5 modules. Please click on the "Launch the learning module" in order to start the course
This course was written by former MP (New Zealand) Dr. Kennedy Graham.
Legislation constitutes the product of a lengthy process, beginning from a policy concept and ending with the realisation of the desired regulatory results
The legislative drafting process is part of the legislative (law-making) process, which in turn is part of the policy (governance) process.
The course consists of 8 modules. Please click on the "Launch the learning module" in order to start the course
This course was written by Professor Helen Xanthaki, University College London, with the support of Dr. Maria Mousmouti and Dr. Constantin Stefanou.
This course analyses procedures and practices of law-making in contemporary democracies.
- The first part places law-making among other parliamentary functions, underlining the close interrelationship and intertwining between the main features of the law-making process and the form of government.
- The second part is devoted to parliamentary procedures for law-making and is divided into two sections: (a1) a historical approach, exploring the main models adopted in the UK, France and US (respectively, the tThree rReadings in the UK; the “‘Bureaux System”’ in France; and the Permanent Specialized Committees in the US), and (b2) a section focusing on a key driver of the transformation of law-making procedures: the growing complexity of legislation (‘complexification’), a key factor that is transforming contemporary law-making procedures.
- The third and final part explores specific law-making practices through a comparative study of different jurisdictions.
This course was written by Professor Nicola Lupo, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali.
