Houses Of Parliament Research Articles

Remote Avant-Garde: Aboriginal Art under Occupation by Jennifer Loureide Biddle

Jennifer Loureide Biddle, Avant-Garde: Aboriginal Art Occupation. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016. 304 pp.Remote Avant-Garde: Aboriginal Art Occupation, by Jennifer Loureide Biddle, is a welcome addition to the literature on Indigenous Australian art, and more broadly to anthropologies of art, Indigenous Australia, and global Indigenous arts and aesthetics. I heartily recommend it to anyone those fields, and would happily teach with it anthropology, art history, art/artworlds, and museum studies.The monograph's main theme is the revelation of tradition via experimental art practice Australia's Western Desert. Biddle asserts that production - all its myriad forms-is a form of life-making for Aboriginal people (205) a nation-state that not only refuses to recognize them on/in their own terms,1 but fact is currently exerting an unprecedented level of intervention their lives. The juxtaposition of terms her title, Remote Avant-Garde seeks to obliterate the division between remote and urban that has persisted analyses of Indigenous Australia (3), elevate innovative expressions to a register and regime of value the artworld (the avant-garde), and, indeed, expand our imaginings of what that category might include.2 She highlights the importance of art centers as hubs of community health and well-being (15-17, 199), and emphasizes that Aboriginal arts are profoundly, unabashedly (36, 52-55, 94-95, 127-132, 141-144, 190, 205). As a frame for exploring Indigenous/non-Indigenous collaboration, the intercultural is something that has received intense anthropological attention Australia the last two decades,3 and I would have liked to see Biddle delve further into the stakes of this debate.Biddle argues that art central Australia is more performative than representational (198), art is inseparable the bodies and lifeworlds which it originates (153), and is (or, at least, can be) more about process than about the production of commodities for a market (142, 160). These are profound insights the context of a global art movement objectified the form of exhibition at the new Australian Parliament House Canberra, the Musee du Quai Branly Paris, the Venice Biennale, and the Museum of Modern Art New York; and sale through auction houses such as Sotheby's, Christie's, and Bonham's-all sites through which value and virtuosity accrue in/on art objects. As Myers writes his landmark ethnography, Painting Culture (2002), for the earliest painters at Papunya (an Aboriginal settlement that became the origin site of Western Desert acrylic painting), their works had value separate that negotiated the marketplace; they had value because they were from the Dreaming. Biddle's work is very much dialogue with Myers, and she strives for an emic perspective and a representational practice that honor the messiness and multifaceted nature of experimentation.4 Slippage between sacred and secular (see 124-125) is characteristic of many of these works, crucially challenging those who might read/receive/consume Aboriginal arts search of an authentic other(ness), and thereby forging a more expansive understanding of what it means to be Aboriginal, as Biddle says, in the contemporary (see 33, 44, 61,69, 71, 112, and throughout).Biddle has a delightful turn-of-phrase and poetic control of her prose. How does aesthetic emergence relate to emergency? (43) she asks, powerfully illustrating the collision of lifeworlds and meaning-making central Australia, where Aboriginal people must live their lives under occupation. She refuses an authoritative voice-whatever history is, it has to be activated and reactivated by humans the now and the know (193)-simultaneously communicating the potency of art practice and revealing her deep knowledge of Aboriginal cosmologies, such as the everywhen of Jukurrpa/Tjukurrpa/Tjukurpa. …

GOODS AND SERVICE TAX IN INDIA: A SWOT ANALYSIS

Goods and Service Tax (GST) is a Value Added Tax (VAT), which hypothetically to be put into effect from April 2010, but because of conflicting interest of stakeholders and various political controversies it has been passed in both Houses of Parliament on Aug. 3, 2016. It alone indirect tax which influence the whole economy directly. It is aspiring as iron out wrinkles of current indirect taxes and has a far-reaching impact on GDP. India is a centralized constitutional economy. GST is applicable on all States and Union territories, known as CGST (Central Goods & Services Tax) and SGST (State Goods & Services Tax). The ill effects of cascading can be mitigated after tie up the central and states taxes in solitary tax. The economy is expected to pave the way of common national market as it will provide benefits to consumer by reducing overall tax burden of goods, which is currently estimated at 25% to 30%. Thus, introduction of Goods and Service Tax (GST) is a gigantic tax transform in contemporary ancient times. 
 Ignorance of law is no excuse but is liable to panel provisions, hence why not start learning GST and avoid the cost of ignorance. We all need to know, whether GST is willingly or imposed. This paper describes a brief introduction of current indirect tax structure and GST in India. What are challenging factor in implementation and what can be the opportunities of GST in India.

SKUTKI OPRÓŻNIENIA URZĘDU PREZYDENTA W POLSKICH KONSTYTUCJACH XX WIEKU

THE CONSEQUENCES OF A VACANCY IN THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT UNDER 20TH CENTURY POLISH CONSTITUTIONS Summary The article discusses the consequences of a vacancy in the office of the President of the Republic in 20th-century Polish constitutions. A vacancy in the office of the President takes place in the event of death, resignation, the election of a President being found invalid, among other possibilities. The problem of succession to the office of President became particularly significant in connection with the Smolensk air disaster of 10 April 2010, which took the life of President Lech Kaczyński. This is why particular attention was paid to the provisions of the current Constitution adopted in 1997, pursuant to which the Speaker of the Sejm (lower house of Parliament) served as interim President. The article evaluates these provisions and their application from April to August 2010, i.e. until the swearing-in of the newly-elected President.

‘London particular’: the city, its atmosphere and the visibility of its objects

Over the course of the nineteenth century, the smoke-filled atmospheres of London and other industrial cities were the subject of aesthetic, scientific and legal inquiry. Reconstructing the conjunction of such inquiries in a pivotal architectural episode—the rebuilding of the Houses of Parliament—reveals an important transformation in the understanding of the relationship between a city and its architectural objects. Where it once seemed possible to regard these objects (and their architects) as independent, discrete participants in the larger material and administrative domains of the city, the expanding knowledge and judgements of the atmosphere and its effects produced an entirely different perception. The city and its architectural objects were co-extensive, involuntary participants in an encompassing process of change registered by two newly recognised categories: decay and maintenance.

Observing UK Bonfire Night pollution from space: analysis of atmospheric aerosol

UK Bonfire Night (BFN) is an annual event on 5 November which celebrates the failed ‘gunpowder plot’ of Guy Fawkes, who intended to blow up the Houses of Parliament. This event is celebrated with firework and bonfire displays, which reduce visibility and increase air pollutant concentrations. A two‐ to four‐fold increase in particulate matter concentrations was seen at some surface monitoring sites. Satellite measurements of aerosol optical depth found increases of 10–90% between days before and after BFN.

Stones of Science: Charles Harriot Smith and the Importance of Geology in Architecture, 1834-64

In mid nineteenth-century Britain, the study of geology involved radical new understandings of the earth's history. This had ramifications for architecture, providing new ways of seeing stone and designing buildings. This article examines the works of stone-mason Charles Smith. Following the destruction of the Houses of Parliament in 1834, the government initiated a national survey to select a stone for Britain's new legislature. Alongside geologists Henry De la Beche and William Smith, Charles Smith toured the buildings and quarries of Britain, producing a report that was intended to guide not only the choice of stone at Westminster, but all future architectural projects. He spent the following two decades promoting geological knowledge for architectural work. His reading of texts that examined the earth's geological formation, such as Charles Lyell's, shaped new understandings of stone and cement. This article demonstrates how, in a rapidly industrialising society, geology and architecture became increasingly inseparable.

Limits of Cultural Engineering: Actors and Narratives in the European Parliament's House of European History Project

AbstractConcerned about the EU's apparent lack of cultural legitimacy, EU institutions have increasingly engaged in the transnational politics of history to enhance European identity and foster EU legitimacy. The House of European History museum project in Brussels marks a high point in the European Parliament's history politics. Based on document analysis and interviews, an analysis of the project's origins and evolution highlights the narrow limits of cultural engineering from above by EU institutions, however. The constraining dissensus in EU politics has forced the European Parliament to rely entirely on the curators and professional historians to legitimize its museum as one that conforms to prevailing curatorial and historical standards. As a result, the first permanent exhibition differs markedly from the original plan. Its narrative has become East Europeanized and the history of European integration proper has been marginalized.

How Lobbying Affects Representation: Results for Majority-Elected Politicians

Abstract: While most observers feel that interest groups influence parliamentary decisions, direct evidence on this topic is scarce. Matching parliamentary votes with referendum results helps to bridge this gap. Existing research for politicians of the Swiss Lower House of Parliament suggests that the number of sectional and cause interest groups affect the quality of political representation. We extend this analysis to majority-elected politicians of the Upper House and by more than 50 referendum decisions for the Lower House. Our results show that the pure number of sectional or cause groups does not affect defection of politicians from their constituents which suggests that the generalizability of the results may be limited.

Mary Seacole statue campaign epitomises the strength of nursing.

On the morning of 30 June in the grounds of St Thomas's Hospital in London, overlooking the Thames and the Houses of Parliament, the statue of Mary Seacole was unveiled.

Cow Green Reservoir – update for the 50th anniversary issue

Cow Green was authorised by the Tees Valley and Cleveland Water Act 1967, which received the Royal Assent on 22 March 1967 after lengthy proceedings in both Houses of Parliament. The reservoir is on the river Tees on the boundary of Durham and Westmorland (now Cumbria) and the dam is situated at about 280 m upstream of the Cauldron Snout waterfall – the largest water cascade drop in England.

Интерпретационный подход к голосованию. Российский опыт

In the last 15 years Freedom House has downgraded Russia’s status from “intermediate” into “consolidated authoritarian” political regime. Despite its gradual sliding in terms of political rights and civil liberties since the early 2000s, the country did not witness any significant change, either upward or downward, in terms of voting turnout in the federal elections. either for President or for the lower house of parliament. Why people keep voting in Russia within little margins after all? What is the meaning of voting if it does neither fundamentally change the government nor seems to dramatically influence its decisions? When voting turnout presents puzzles, the literature usually looks for explanations in different directions: from mass electoral frauds to sudden improvement in governmental performance. The main problem with all these explanations lies in the fact that, usually, they are not tailored to any specific national case. Ecological fallacy may lead to wrong conclusions about individual cases based on inference from correct statements about the entire group. Thus, when the usual arguments are put to the test in the case of Russia, we may find serious theoretical mistakes or shortcomings in any of them. Instead of deductively testing general hypotheses on a specific case, wouldn’t it be more appropriate to inductively build theoretical framework based on existing data? From a theoretical point of view, induction provides a good starting point for investigating new phenomena or for investigating old phenomena in a new context. This paper answers the research question by analyzing Russian public opinion expressed within the frame of the last available data from World Values Survey (2011‑2014), a multinational and multi-wave study on different social attitudes since the early 1980s, some dealing with political system. Beyond the specific Russian case, this research is another brick that bridges the gap existing between statistical and interpretative approaches in political science. It provides cultural studies the rigidity of statistical methodology, and statistics the richness of hermeneutics. Reaching beyond citizens’ material interests and expectations, which traditionally are at the center of voting turnout explanation, this study finds clues to something conceptually very close to the sense of civic duty as a voting incentive. The main difference between the traditional sense of civic duty and the meaning of voting in Russia lies in the fact that Russian citizens do not consider voting as an order mainly coming from above or from outside, but from inside, from their intimate sense of doing what is right. In general terms, the puzzling phenomenon of persistent voting behavior in Russia can be explained in terms of cultural significance of the national belonging and pride. On this a rather large foundation four independent from one another add-ons suggest the existence of cultural sub-groups that understand voting as a sign of: 1) confidence toward the strong political leader, 2) confidence toward all public institutions, 3) altruism, and, lastly, 4) traditionalism.

Legal Analysis of the Implementation Rules of Delegation of Home Visits by Family Doctors to Non-Physician Health Professionals: Is the Implementation in Accordance with the Intention of the Law?

Objective: Triggered by the AGnES model project of the University Medicine Greifswald, the Code of Social Law V was changed by the German Lower and Upper House of Parliament (Bundestag and Bundesrat) in 2008 so that the delegation of GP's activities to non-physician colleagues was allowed under highly restricted preconditions. Delegated home visits should become an integral part of the standard care in Germany. In this study, the implementation of § 87 para 2b clause 5 SGB V, established in Annex 8 of the Federal Collective Agreement, was checked for its legality in terms of qualification. Methods: The problem was checked with the legal methods of interpretation in pursuance of the norm and the methods of systematic, historic and teleologic interpretation. Results: Even though the Parliament clearly required orientation to the AGnES model project (in order to assure safety and effective care of delegated home visits), self-management in the implementation of the law remained far behind these guidelines. The main outcome of the legal analysis was that the implementation arrangements of the Code of Social Law V are predominantly illegal. Conclusions: The parties of the Federal Collective Agreement have to change the arrangements to meet the requirements of the Parliament and to avoid risks of liability for delegating GPs.

The parliamentary and executive elections in Switzerland, 2015

The 2015 federal elections in Switzerland brought a shift to the political right and re-established executive proportionality. Since this came about mainly via the weakening of the centre, the results also signal a return to a trend begun in the early 1990s, which temporarily stalled in 2011 (see Mueller and Dardanelli, 2013): a growth or at least (in the case of the left) a consolidation of the two pole-parties. These are, on the right, the national-conservative Swiss People’s Party (SVP/UDC, hereafter SVP), and the Socialist Party of Switzerland (SPS/PSS, hereafter SPS) on the left. The SVP gained both votes and seats in the National Council and increased its presence in the Swiss government to two seats (out of seven). It failed, however, to enlarge its delegation in the Council of States. The SPS, on the other hand, lost three seats in the National Council, but stabilized its overall vote share, increased its size in the prestigious (and equally powerful) Council of States and held on to its two executive seats with ease. Other noteworthy facts include the gains of Switzerland’s most traditional party, the Liberals (FDP/PLR, hereafter FDP), and the losses of both the “old” and the “new” centre parties. The FDP won additional votes and seats in both parliamentary chambers and, like the SPS, held on to its two government seats without disputes. However, Switzerland’s second oldest party, the centrist Christian-Democrats (CVP/PDC, hereafter CVP), continued its decline, even if it managed to stand its ground in the Council of States and retain its one seat in the Federal Council. The two other centre parties, the Green-Liberals (GLP/PVL, hereafter GLP) and the Conservative Democratic Party (BDP/PBD, hereafter BDP), founded in 2007 and 2008, respectively, also lost both votes and seats. These results paint a picture of increased polarisation and reduced fragmentation, and the return of the SVP to full executive strength might bode well for the stability of the country’s institutions. However, the two houses of parliament are now dominated by different majorities, which might jeopardise consensus-finding – especially if executive proportionality is not matched by consociational behaviour.

Investigation of structures in the Alabanda Bouleuterion by electrical resistivity method

The workspace as Bouleuterion (parliament house) is located in the ancient city of Alabanda far approximately 7 km from Aydin, Cine. The works on the city plan are still continued by the Department of Archeology in Adnan Menderes University. In this work, a geophysical study based on electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) approach is used to bring out the existence of the buried structures and situations of ruins in Bouleuterion. This study is a good example of implementation of the electrical resistivity method to the archeology in a specific area (Bouleuterion). Furthermore, the paper shows to researchers practically advantages and disadvantages of Wenner and dipole-dipole arrays that widely used in archeological prospection. Also with this work, a Bouleuterion has been subject of a geophysical article for the first time. By archeology and geophysics evaluations, it is proved that these ruins such as the cavea, stage, orchestra, and entrances are parts of the Bouleuterion.

Women in the Duma: Why Post-Soviet Russia Has Low Female Representation? A view from India

Quarter of a century after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the Russian Duma, lower house of Parliament, still has a low representation of women. The article seeks to examine the causes for this phenomenon. It examines the factors that have been found to be responsible for the gender gap in parliaments across the world. It will then present this evidence in the light of the Russian experience to understand what lies behind the low level of representation of women in Russian national parliament. A mix of political, socio-economic and cultural factors will be analysed in detail to fi nd the causative aspects, analysing the inter-linkages between these various factors in play.

Rada Państwa (1810–1917). Od subsydiarnego organu władzy rosyjskich imperatorów do izby wyższej parlamentu

The article is devoted to the Council of State (Gosudarstvenny soviet) of the Russian Empire. The author presents an evolution of the state authority. Over the years of its operation it played the role of institution that advised the emperor on the legislative matters. A very important moment in the history of this institution was 1906, when the authority became the upper house of the Russian parliament. In this article the author presents the structure of the State Council and its staff composition, including participation of Poles and Lithuanians in its work.

From Scientific Curiosity to Public Enemy Number One in Six Short Months.

From Scientific Curiosity to Public Enemy Number One in Six Short Months.

The functioning of the Medical Council of India analysed by the Parliamentary Standing Committee of Health and Family Welfare.

On March 8, 2016, the 92nd report on the functioning of the Medical Council of India (MCI) (1) was placed before both Houses of Parliament by Professor Ram Gopal Yadav, Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee of Health and Family Welfare.

The Home Front in the ‘Westminster Village': women staff in Parliament during the Second World War

ABSTRACTThe experience of women staff in the Houses of Parliament during the Second World War, although an unusual example of the Home Front in action, was perhaps surprisingly typical in how parts of its male workforce came to be replaced by women. Parliament was a particular target for bombing, and more than 40 women worked in a munitions factory underneath Central Lobby at the very heart of Parliament. Six women auxiliaries also participated in the Palace of Westminster Home Guard. Women took on new administrative jobs for the first time, including Kay Midwinter, appointed the first female Clerk in the House of Commons in 1940, who had a successful career at the League of Nations before the war and the United Nations afterwards; and Jean Winder, the first female Hansard reporter, appointed in 1944, who fought a long battle for equal pay.

Listenin’ Up: Re-imagining Ourselves through Stories of and from Country

Listenin’ Up: Re-imagining Ourselves through Stories of and from Country