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, 2019 Abstract Do political parties increasingly engage in non-legislative parliamentary activities? To what extent is the range of issues addressed through parliamentary questioning becoming more diverse? Is overtime change in issue attention during question time incremental or rather stable and occasionally interspersed with radical ...
Borghetto, Enrico +1 more
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Public parliamentary discourse in Russia and Germany: speech and genre specifics [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2019 In the article the approaches to the problem of political discourse speech genres differentiation are discussed based on the comparative analysis of the German and Russian public parliamentary speech authentic samples.
Konstantinova Anna +4 more
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The crisis of democracy: Schmitt's critique of liberal democracy [PDF]
Sociološki Pregled, 2021 Based on Schmitt's critique of parliamentary democracy during the interwar crisis period, this paper answers the question of how relevant his insights are today regarding the political consequences of ignoring power relations in a society, and what ...
Petrović Luka A.
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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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Can the «Vertical» Give Way to the «Horizontal»? [PDF]
Научно-аналитический вестник Института Европы РАН, 2022 The dualistic parliamentary-presidential character of the political regime of the Fifth Republic in France is analyzed, which is characterized by the broad powers of the president and the lack of a balance of power between the executive and legislative ...
Lapina, N.Yu.
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EXPLAINING POLITICAL PARTY VIGILANTISM AND VIOLENCE IN PARLIAMENTARY BY-ELECTIONS IN GHANA
Journal of African Politics, 2021 Electoral violence often perpetrated by political party vigilante groups in Ghana has been a major setback to Ghana’s drive towards democratic maturity.
Richard Asante, Ransford Van Gyampo
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Collecting evidence on the use of parliamentary oversight tools: A South African case study
African Evaluation Journal, 2020 Background: Parliament, through its oversight function, plays a central role in holding the executive to account. In South Africa’s 2014 Defence Review policy document, it was stated that the ‘Defence Force is in a critical state of decline’. This brings
Wilhelm Janse van Rensburg +2 more
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Clio@Themis, 2021 The “sanction” was the mechanism by which the king assented to the law without using his right of veto. The revolutionary constitution of 1971 was the only constitution to provide for the granting of royal assent.
Guillaume Glénard
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Les temporalités du travail parlementaire en Suisse
Temporalités, 2022 While in most liberal democracies the mandate of national MP is exercised on a full-time basis since the end of the 19th century, members of the Swiss Federal Assembly carry out their function as a part-time, with low parliamentary allowances, so-called “
Andrea Pilotti
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Evasion in Malaysian Parliamentary Question Time
Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2023 This study explores evasion employed by Malaysian ministers and deputy ministers during Question Time using Clayman’s Framework of Evasion (2001, 2012). While most evasion studies have focused on political interviews, particularly within western settings, this study examines evasion during Question Time in the Malaysian parliament. The study is content-
Najah Zainal Abidin +2 more
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