Special Issue: Information and power in and around the working commissions - Parliaments, Estates & Representation - Volume 39 - Number 3 - December 2019
Special Issue: Information and power in and around the working commissions - Parliaments, Estates & Representation - Volume 39 - Number 3 - December 2019
Special Issue: Information and power in and around the working commissions of parliamentary and representative institutions, 15th-21st centuries
Guest editor: Maria Betlem Castellà i Pujols
Introduction
Maria Betlem Castellà i Pujols
The power and control of information in municipal representation in the Catalan courts: the Consell de Prohoms of Lleida in the fifteenth century
Esther Martí Sentañes
The role played by towns in parliamentary commissions in the Kingdom of Sardinia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
Olivetta Schena
Parliamentary committees in seventeenth-century Ireland: a brief introduction
Coleman A. Dennehy
Commissioners, ad hoc committees and negotiators in the cortes of Catalonia, 1701-02
Josep Capdeferro
Information and power. The government of Catalonia and its minor committees (1700-13)
Eduard Martí
Pouvoir et Information dans les mains du Comité des rapports: un comité-pendule entre les pouvoirs législatif et exécutif sous l’Assemblée nationale constituante (1789-91)
Maria Betlem Castellà i Pujols
The Italian parliamentary committee of inquiry on brigandage in the Neapolitan provinces. Political practices and institutional dynamics (1862-63)
Simona Fazio
Parliamentary committees in Spain during the First World War: a useful tool for the cortes in times of crisis?
Marcella Aglietti
Democratic representation and information in a supranational setting: the case of the European Parliament (1979-2019)
Martí Grau i Segú