Odeyemi, TI orcid.org/0000-0003-0471-3617, Olorunshola, DT and Ajibola, BS (2023) Turning public engagement into standard practice: institutionalisation in the work of the South African Parliament. The Journal of Legislative Studies, 29 (3). pp. 406-424. ISSN 1357-2334
Abstract
Previous research and observed practices demonstrate that as hubs of public participation in governance, parliaments are devising means and prioritising resources that promote more public-facing initiatives to reach out to different segments of society. The diverse means through which these happen, across contexts, pose the ‘danger’ of randomness and spontaneity which ultimately limits institutional memory and consistency. This article explores how parliaments can enhance content and outcomes through the institutionalisation of public engagement. It demonstrates how legal and institutional frameworks – as a system of rules and formalised standards – are combined to set clearly defined templates, and how these align with processes for enhanced public engagement practices. In using South Africa to frame its analysis, the article draws on the 2022 IPU-UNDP Global Parliamentary Report interviews and document analysis of relevant frameworks and reports. We show how leveraging historical, geographic, social-linguistics, and demographic contexts help to strengthen parliament-public interface through institutionalisation.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Parliamentary public engagement, legislative institutionalisation, parliament of the Republic of South Africa, global parliamentary report |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 12 Jun 2023 11:13 |
Last Modified: | 05 Feb 2024 16:43 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/13572334.2023.2195147 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:200288 |