PARLIAMENT AND DEMOCRACY - Inter-Parliamentary Union

vi I PARLIAMENT AND DEMOCRACY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
List of figures and boxes
Figure 1.1: Framework: the parliamentary contribution to democracy . . . .10
Figure 2.1: World average of women in Parliaments, 1995 - 2006 . . . . . . .20
Figure 2.2: Regional averages of women in Parliaments,
1995, 2000 and 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
Figure 3.1: First main source of information for national and international
news per region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
Figure 3.2: Internet usage statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
Figure 3.3: A Day in Parliament Comic Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64
Figure 5.1: Trust in national institutions: regional averages . . . . . . . . . . .110
Figure 7.1: Synchronizing legislative-executive coordination with specific
points in the PRSP cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .164
Figure 8.1: Sources of Parliamentary Reform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185
Box: International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights, Article 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Box: Election results in India and the United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . .16
Box: IPU recommendations on good practice for
parliamentary websites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59
Box: Extract from handbook on Making a Submission to a
Parliamentary Select Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83
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