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Parliamentary investigation as a tool of counter corruption and power abuse

Current Issues of the State and Law, 2023
Parliamentary control and parliamentary investigation as its component (type) in counteracting corruption and abuse of power are considered. The legal and social nature of the domestic institute of parliamentary investigation is noted, its determination in the Russian law is substantiated.
Ivan V. Kholikov, Anastasia I. Kholikova
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Investigating Differences in Electoral Turnout: The Influence of Ward-Level Context on Participation in Local and Parliamentary Elections in Britain [PDF]

open access: possibleEnvironment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2008
Electoral turnout is an important measure of the health of a liberal democracy. Although research identifies factors that affect electoral participation, we still know little about how electors in a specific location respond to opportunities to vote for different kinds of local, national, and supranational institutions.
Scott Orford   +3 more
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The diffusion of parliamentary oversight: investigating the democratization of the armed forces in Indonesia and Nigeria

Contemporary Politics, 2019
Parliamentary control of the armed forces is a core norm of the liberal security sector reform paradigm.
Maria-Gabriela Manea, Jürgen Rüland
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CONSTITUTIONAL BOUNDARIES OF THE PARLIAMENTARY INVESTIGATION POWER [PDF]

open access: possibleCurentul Juridic, The Juridical Current, 2014
The Parliament’s functional activity is subjected to restrictions set forth in the Constitution. These restrictions, serving the rule of law, may be of a procedural or substantive character. In addition to the typical legislative function, the Constitution attributes to the Parliament a controlling function, which supports the balance between powers ...
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Barking or biting? Media and parliamentary investigation of right‐wing extremism in the Bundeswehr

German Politics, 2000
Over the winter of 1997–98 Germany was rocked by a series of investigative media reports over right‐wing extremist incidents within its armed forces, painting a disturbing picture of racist violence and neo‐Nazi sympathies in the Bundeswehr. In response to the media reports and the ensuing public outcry, the Bundestag instituted a Committee of ...
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An investigation of general extenders in a corpus of parliamentary debates

2007
The paper illustrates the important role played by vague expressions in native speaker communicative competence and investigates the use of a particular type of vague expressions, general extenders - like ‘and so on’, ‘or something’, ‘etcetera’ - in two subcorpora of 62 EU parliamentary debates comprising native English and non-native English.
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What explains the size of parliamentary staff?

West European Politics, 2023
Simon Otjes
exaly  

Moving up or down: parliamentary activity and candidate selection

Journal of Legislative Studies, The, 2022
Cynthia Van Vonno, Tom Louwerse
exaly  

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