PARLIAMENT AND DEMOCRACY - Inter-Parliamentary Union

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government. This may require the establishment of special coordinating
bodies or committees, as in this example from the Philippines:
For purposes of relevant policy-making, the Legislative-Executive
Development Advisory Council (LEDAC) was created with the Speaker
of the House as one of its members, with the intention of coordinating
the approaches of the executive and legislative, to avoid gridlock in
decision-making and to fast-track law-making. The LEDAC is a
consultative and advisory body which coordinates executive development
planning and congressional budgeting. Thus, the competing
legislative priorities of Congress and the executive branch are
thrashed out, draft bills on vital issues are discussed and consensus
reached on which bills should be considered urgent.
More specific issues involved in programming the legislative process will
be considered in the following section.
Further online reading about parliam entary self-organisation:
Association of Secretaries General of Parliaments (1991). The Parliamentary
Budget, in Constitutional and parliamentary information, N° 161.
Association of Secretaries General of Parliaments (1999). The administrative
and financial autonomy of parliamentary assemblies, in Constitutional and
parliamentary information, N° 177.
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (2005).
Administration and financing of parliament: a study group report.
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (2005). Study group on the
administration and financing of parliament: key recommendations.
Harris, I (2005). Towards the evolution of an effective parliamentary administration
in West Africa. Association of Secretaries General of Parliaments
Reports from a seminar on parliamentary administrations and legislative cooperation,
organised by ECPRD and the Italian Chamber of Deputies