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The Question of Public Participation in the Procedure for Authentic Interpretation of Laws

Review of European and Comparative Law, 2021
Authentic interpretation of laws is an interpretation of legal provisions that, due to their lack of clarity or misinterpretation in their application, is provided by the parliament. Unlike the legislative procedure, which is conducted, as a rule, in two
Gordan Struić
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When who and how matter: explaining the success of referendums in Europe [PDF]

, 2016
This article aims to identify the institutional factors that make a referendum successful. This comparative analysis seeks to explain the success of top-down referendums organized in Europe between 2001 and 2013.
Nanuli Silagadze, Sergiu Gherghina, Ece Özlem Atikcan, Agnes Batory, Virginia Beramendi, Russell J Dalton, Russell J Dalton, Claes H Vreese de, Viola Drath, Joan Font, Mark Franklin, Mark Franklin, Mark Franklin, John Garry, Sara B Hobolt, Sara Binzer Hobolt, Simon Hug, Hanspeter Kriesi, Hanspeter Kriesi, Romain Lachat, Dean Lacy, Lawrence LeDuc, Lawrence LeDuc, Lawrence LeDuc, Arthur Lupia, Wolfgang Luthardt, Frank Marcinkowski, Wilfried Marxer, Ian McAllister, Fernando Mendez, Kenneth Newton, Pippa Norris, Matt Qvortrup, Matt Qvortrup, Karlheinz Reif, Fritz Sager, Rudiger Schmitt-Beck, Maija Setala, Maija Setala, Karen Siune, Karen Siune, Palle Svensson, Aleks Szczerbiak, Alexander H Trechsel, Mark Clarence Walker, George Williams, John R Zaller   +46 more
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The Scope and Boundaries of the Parliamentary Inquiry According to the Latvian Constitutionalism

Law: Journal of the University of Latvia
Parliamentary inquiry is one of the oldest and most widely used tools of parliamentary control. Since the Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Latvia, parliamentary inquiry has been a central instrument in parliamentary oversight, with its ...
Ringolds Balodis, Aleksandrs Kuzņecovs
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Party Control and Responsiveness

Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, 2022
Different parliamentary activities allow Members of Parliament (MPs) varying amounts of autonomy. Previous studies have shown that, in parliamentary systems with strong parties and party-centered electoral rules, MPs have limited room for crossing the ...
Martin Søyland
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Legislative strengthening meets party support in international assistance: a closer relationship? [PDF]

, 2009
Recent reports recommend that international efforts to help strengthen legislatures in emerging democracies should work more closely with support for building stronger political parties and competitive party systems.
Brösamle K., Burnell P., Burnell P., Carothers T., Carothers T., Catón M., French D., Hubli K., Hudson A., Hudson A., Johnson R., Johnston N., Jones T., Krafchik W., McNeil M., Miller R., Murphy J., Okole H., Peter Burnell, Power G., Reilly B., Schultz K., Stapenhurst R., USAID, Wehner J., Weir S., Zimmermann F., Öhman M.   +27 more
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The Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry in the Austrian National Council – Influence and Impact from the Perspective of the Austrian National Council Members

Politics in Central Europe, 2023
Committees of inquiry in the Austrian National Council gained a significant upgrade through a reform in 2015: for the first time, a parliamentary minority can now demand the establishment of a committee of inquiry.
Keppel Matthias
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Conceptualizing the parliamentarization and politicization of European policies [PDF]

, 2019
In the past 20 years, two related literature strands have gradually moved centre stage of the attention of EU Studies scholars. The first is preoccupied with the ‘politicization of European integration’, a multi-faceted concept that aims to tie together ...
Gheyle, Niels
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Parliamentary Diplomacy – A New Dimension of Contemporary Parliamentarism

Studia Iuridica Lublinensia, 2022
The article analyses the phenomenon of parliamentary diplomacy. Although the international activity of parliamentarians was already observed in the 19th century, it did not gain momentum until the 20th and 21st centuries, becoming an important element of
Jerzy Jaskiernia
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Can parliament govern the transport transition? How the German Bundestag scrutinizes rail projects

Energy, Sustainability and Society, 2022
Background The paper aims to elucidate to what extent the German Parliament exerts control over rail planning. Parliament has the budgetary right, but information asymmetries vis-à-vis the railway company Deutsche Bahn and the Ministry of Transport make ...
Felix Julian Koch, Jenny Rademann, Simon Fink   +2 more
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'This is what democracy looks like' : New Labour's blind spot and peripheral vision [PDF]

, 2006
New Labour in government since 1997 has been roundly criticized for not possessing a clear, coherent and consistent democratic vision. The absence of such a grand vision has resulted, from this critical perspective, in an absence of 'joined-up' thinking ...
A Brazier, A Coulson, A Dinham, A Giddens, A Giddens, A McConnell, A Midwinter, A Trench, AH Birch, Bogdanor, C Jeffery, D Arter, D Judge, D Judge, D Judge, D Judge, D Judge, D Kavanagh, D McHugh, D Oliver, D Wilson, David Judge, DD Searing, E Shaw, G Allen, G Stoker, H Sullivan, H Sullivan, J Bartle, J Bradbury, J Curtice, J Mitchell, J Mitchell, J Morrison, J Radcliffe, KD Ewing, Lord Hailsham, M Aspinwall, M Evans, M Flinders, M Flinders, M Flinders, M Keating, M Rush, M Russell, M Shephard, N Bonney, N Johnson, P Cowley, P Cowley, P Mandelson, R Cook, R Stevens, S Low, S Ludlam, S Weir, SE Finer, T Blair, T Quinn, T Smith, T Wright, T Wright, V Lownes   +62 more
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