Renaud Egreteau
- Published in print:
- 2022
- Published Online:
- April 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780192858740
- eISBN:
- 9780191949357
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780192858740.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, Asian Politics
This chapter shows how an essentially workable legislative structure, even if flawed, operated on a day-to-day basis in the course of two post-authoritarian legislatures (2011–2016 and 2016–2021). It ...
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This chapter shows how an essentially workable legislative structure, even if flawed, operated on a day-to-day basis in the course of two post-authoritarian legislatures (2011–2016 and 2016–2021). It analyses the development, role, and impact of permanent parliamentary staff offices, interrogates the emergence of an effective sessional calendar, and explains the formation of parliamentary committee structures. Then, embracing both ethnographic observations and in-depth interviews with legislators and legislative staff conducted across two legislatures, it investigates how everyday parliamentary life has (re)emerged in the 2010s and what it means for Myanmar’s attempts to develop a form of post-junta, democratic life. Efforts to institutionalize a parliament’s inner workings are key to its sustainability and effectiveness. Steps in that direction and the normalization of legislative business have been taken by both the USDP and NLD legislatures.Less
This chapter shows how an essentially workable legislative structure, even if flawed, operated on a day-to-day basis in the course of two post-authoritarian legislatures (2011–2016 and 2016–2021). It analyses the development, role, and impact of permanent parliamentary staff offices, interrogates the emergence of an effective sessional calendar, and explains the formation of parliamentary committee structures. Then, embracing both ethnographic observations and in-depth interviews with legislators and legislative staff conducted across two legislatures, it investigates how everyday parliamentary life has (re)emerged in the 2010s and what it means for Myanmar’s attempts to develop a form of post-junta, democratic life. Efforts to institutionalize a parliament’s inner workings are key to its sustainability and effectiveness. Steps in that direction and the normalization of legislative business have been taken by both the USDP and NLD legislatures.
Daniel A. Bell
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780691173047
- eISBN:
- 9781400865505
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691173047.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, Asian Politics
This chapter discusses three models of “democratic meritocracy,” along with their pros and cons: a model that combines democracy and meritocracy at the level of the voter; a horizontal model that ...
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This chapter discusses three models of “democratic meritocracy,” along with their pros and cons: a model that combines democracy and meritocracy at the level of the voter; a horizontal model that combines democracy and meritocracy at the level of central political institutions; and a vertical model with political meritocracy at the level of the central government and democracy at the local level. It argues that the third model is the best of the three and goes on to consider John Stuart Mill's proposal for a plural voting scheme, Jiang Qing's proposal for a tricameral legislature, and Chinese Minister Li Yuanchao's views on the meritocratic nature of selection at higher levels of government in China. Finally, it examines the implications of referendum for electoral democracy by citing the case of Chile in the second half of the twentieth century.Less
This chapter discusses three models of “democratic meritocracy,” along with their pros and cons: a model that combines democracy and meritocracy at the level of the voter; a horizontal model that combines democracy and meritocracy at the level of central political institutions; and a vertical model with political meritocracy at the level of the central government and democracy at the local level. It argues that the third model is the best of the three and goes on to consider John Stuart Mill's proposal for a plural voting scheme, Jiang Qing's proposal for a tricameral legislature, and Chinese Minister Li Yuanchao's views on the meritocratic nature of selection at higher levels of government in China. Finally, it examines the implications of referendum for electoral democracy by citing the case of Chile in the second half of the twentieth century.
