Part-time Legislature vs. the Full-time Legislature States
The legislature is a considered body in the government that is sanctioned to make change or appeal laws of a state. It forms an imperative fragment of government in the division of power prototypes, which are differentiated from policymaking and jurisdictional forms of government. Laws enacted by the legislature are usually known as primary legislation, which can be used to steer and observe governing actions with authority to amend the budget involved. In states legislation, different states use different forms of legislature whereby some use part-time legislature, and others use full-time legislature (Fico, p.49). These various forms of bureaucracy are different from each other in terms of the way a state operating under each category has different performance indicators like budgets, levels of taxation, job creation, and legislative efficiency.
A full-time legislature is also referred to as a green legislature whereby the most time of legislators is usually a full-time job. States under this type of legislation are the most common in the world’s population states, whereby they have a large number of legislators staff who are paid enough to make a living. Hence, they do not look for outside income. Their teams spend more time in job because their sessions are longer; thus, their compensation rates are very high for the staffs. States that practice full-time legislation has positive performance indicators whereby most of the time, they do not incur surplus in their budgets or anything near a factoring in their total debts and infrastructures (Fico, p.49). Their financial and societal facts of developments affect overall fiscal health and ability to pay back debts hence incurring more interests due to the high number of legislators and the high rates of their allowances expenses. Therefore, taxpayers have to make up for the shortfalls by paying additional taxes to cater for the increased debt and eliminate their deficiencies in the economy, which imposes a harsh business environment for their citizens. Although these states have a low level of unemployment, the imposed taxes push the general price of goods and services high for the consumers.
On the other hand, part-time legislation is also referred to as a gold legislature whereby the average lawmakers spend time equivalent to half of the full-time job doing their legislative work. Legislators working in these states regularly receives low compensation, which requires them to have other sources of income to make their living (Moncrief, & Joel, n.p). These states typically have relatively small staffs consisted of traditional or citizen legislatures who are often found in a small population in rural countries. In these states, politicians are not bounded there forever, which makes them play significant constant roles in their first career while on the other side of they make laws without interest in non-political living.
Legislative work goes faster in these states, but the constitution prohibits lawmakers from passing laws and debates on most bills in the first two months of the session that allows deliberation since regulations made before them cannot vote for them (Moncrief, & Joel, n.p). They also have a balanced budget since the government in these states does not spend much on salaries to legislatures and other government officials. Therefore, their tax does not fluctuate over time, making the entire economy low and stable. There are no loan drawbacks interests since these states do not rely on loans for their national debt is relatively flat, and even some times with no obligations. Therefore, few countries fall under the part-time legislature than the widely practiced full-time legislature states.
Works Cited
Fico, Frederick. “News coverage of part-time and full-time legislatures.” Newspaper Research Journal 6.1 (1984): 49-57.
Moncrief, Gary F., and Joel A. Thompson. “Contrasting the American and Canadian Subnational Legislatures.” Canadian Parliamentary Review (1990).