States of terrorism : a study on the geographic distribution of Islamist terrorism in India by Chawla, Hithalli

“…This paper looks at the correlation between Islamist terrorism and the composition of the elected Legislative Assemblies in India. Using a time series, logit regression analysis in 15 States from 2000-2018 followed by a deductive case study analysis, the paper finds that the composition of State Legislative Assemblies does not usually have a statistically significant correlation with Islamist terrorist attacks. …”
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Public Hearings as Social Performance: Addressing the Courts, Restoring Citizenship by Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal

“…Collective action increasingly addresses the courts as much as governments or legislative assemblies. This paper aims to show, through an analysis of public hearings (jan sunwai in Hindi), that such “legalism” of Indian progressive social movements is at work not only in the language, but also in the form of mobilizations. …”
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Public accounts committee (PAC) of a Malaysian state: An exploratory analysis by Samsudin, Rose Shamsiah, Mohamed, Nafsiah

“…As a strong committee of legislature, PACs can emerge as a potential structural solution to the need of the State Legislative Assemblies (SLAs) to monitor the financial conducts of the state governments. …”
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How do minority presidents manage multiparty coalitions? Identifying and analyzing the payoffs to coalition parties in presidential systems by Chaisty, P, Chernykh, S

“…The preponderance of minority presidents in modern democracies has concentrated the attention of researchers on the multi-party coalitions that presidents form to govern in legislative assemblies. This analysis of “coalitional presidentialism” has focused almost exclusively on presidential systems in Latin America, and Brazil in particular. …”

Theories association on public accounts committees (PACs) of Malaysia: an exploratory analysis into its role and establishment by Samsudin, Rose Shamsiah, Mohamed, Mudzamir, Mohamad Yusof, Nor Zalina, Mohamed, Nafsiah

“…As a supposedly strong committee of legislature, PACs can emerge as a potential solution to the need of the State Legislative Assemblies (SLAs) to monitor the financial conducts of the state governments. …”
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Independent Fiscal Institutions: A Comparative Analysis by Patrizia MAGARÒ

“…The development of a culture of evaluation could in fact better ensure the accountability of Government, allowing legislative Assemblies to perform a more efficient oversight on all public policies, among which the most important is considered the fiscal one.…”
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La réservation de sièges dans les corps élus en Inde by David Annoussamy

“…The Constitution of India which came into force in 1950 provides for the reservation of seats in the lower house of the Union and the legislative assemblies of States in favour of Scheduled castes (ex -intouchables) and Scheduled tribes proportionately to their number in the total population. …”
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Legislation in Hospital Dentistry: Gaps, Perspectives and Desires by Ana Clara Correa Duarte Simões, Felipe Rodrigues de Oliveira Campos, João Victor Frazão Câmara, Livia Fernandes Probst, Sonia Groisman, Vinicius Queiroz Miranda Cedro, Antonio Carlos Pereira

“…Material and Methods: A survey was carried out in the databases of the Legislative Assemblies of the Brazilian States and the Federal District, as well as the Regional and Federal Councils of Dentistry in Brazil. …”
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Aspects of political leadership relevant to voters choice and preferences by Mohamad, Khairul Azmi, Othman, Nooraini

“…Political leadership as contextually described represent some of the most important elements for voters to decide whether or not a particular leader should be elected as Member of Parliament or State Legislative Assemblies in Malaysia. There are five aspects of political leadership forming leadership characters relevant to voters’ choice and preferences in any given election. …”

A preliminary study on the formation of land legislation and cadastre system in Sarawak, Malaysia by Liang, T. M., Choon, T. L., Vern, T. W, Ujang, M. U. B., Chin, T. A.

“…According to the Federal Constitution of Malaysia, article 74 empowers the State Legislative Assemblies to enact laws for the matters under the state list while land matters are one of the subjects under the list. …”
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The judicial role in protecting democracy from populism by David Prendergast

“…The populist challenge prompts a revisit of the debate about the democratic legitimacy of judges being empowered to displace the decisions of elected legislative assemblies (the constitutional review debate). …”
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Future of Islamic Civilization, Emerging Issues and New Horizons by Sajid Iqbal Sheikh, Muhammad Tahir Mustafa

“…National Front (BN: Barisan Nasional) faced major setback of fifty years in the history of Malaysian politics, government was unable to amend the constitution due to the absence of two third majority in the parliament because opposition collation Pakatan Rakayat (PR) grown more than fifty percent votes and more seats in federal and state legislative assemblies. Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS) is one of the major fragments of opposition alliance. …”
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Reconsideration of the President’s Responsibility before the Islamic Consultative Assembly: Interpellation or Impeachment by seyedeh zahra saeid

“…Discussion In some political systems, the president would be removed by legislative assemblies by means of impeachment.  Comparing the elements of the term impeachment with the elements of interpellation proves the above claim. …”
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