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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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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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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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Attribution as evaluation: a corpus-based investigation of quotations in parliamentary discourse

2005
In this paper I will describe some recent developments of a much wider ongoing research project which sets out to explore the linguistic resources of the quintessential site for political discussions – Parliament (Bayley ed. 2004, Wodak and van Dijk eds. 2000) – by combining the methodologies of Discourse Analysis and (small) Corpus Linguistics.
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What explains the size of parliamentary staff?

West European Politics, 2023
Simon Otjes
exaly  

The value of ‘between-election’ political participation: Do parliamentary e-petitions matter to political elites?

British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 2021
Felicity M Matthews
exaly  

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