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The Role and Practice of Legislative Hearings in Democracies: Examples from Germany and the United States

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March 8, 2007

The Role and Practice of Legislative Hearings in Democracies: Examples from Germany and the United States

This paper was written for a series of seminars on public legislative hearings held in Beijing and Shanghai, China. The purpose of the paper is to provide Chinese participants with first-hand accounts of the context and functioning of public hearings in the United States and Germany, where public hearings are more integrated into the legislative process.

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NDI
Publication year
2000

This paper was written for a series of seminars on public legislative hearings held in Beijing and Shanghai, China. The purpose of the paper is to provide Chinese participants with first-hand accounts of the context and functioning of public hearings in the United States and Germany, where public hearings are more integrated into the legislative process.

Resource type
Region
Publisher
NDI
Publication year
2000