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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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Lobbying, Corruption and Other Banes [PDF]
, 2008 Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one in developing ...
Campos, Nauro F., Giovannoni, Francesco
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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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Parliamentary questions as strategic party tools [PDF]
West European Politics, 2017 This article shifts the analysis of parliamentary oversight tools to the level of the political party, asking how political parties make use of written parliamentary questions. It theorises that the use of parliamentary questions is related to the ideological and electoral competition between political parties, borrowing from theories on issue ...
Simon Otjes, Tom Louwerse
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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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Parliamentary functions portrayed on European parliaments' websites [PDF]
, 2009 This article uses data from a pilot study on the websites of 15 parliaments in Europe to identify which parliamentary functions are portrayed on these websites.
Leston-Bandeira, Cristina
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A Pragmatic Analysis of Responses in Malaysian Parliamentary Discourse
Journal of Pragmatics Research, 2022 This study employs the framework of responses proposed by Harris (1991), the notion of implicature as defined by Thomas (1995), and the dimensions of resistance introduced by Clayman (2001) to examine the types of responses in Malaysian Parliamentary ...
Najah Zainal Abidin, Jariah Mohd Jan
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How long can the term of office of the Polish parliament last? A legal-constitutional analysis [PDF]
, 2018 The main research aim of this article is an analysis of the length of the parliamentary term of office in Poland based on the analysis of legal rules. According to the art. 98 para.
Litwin, Tomasz
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Parliamentary Questions: Expressions of Opposition(s) within the European Parliament?
Baltic Journal of European studies, 2019 Parliamentary questions are a direct form of parliamentary scrutiny of other EU institutions and bodies, traditionally being an important tool for the opposition. This study examines how parliamentary questions are used in the European Parliament.
Kaniok Petr, Komínková Magda
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Bratislava Law Review, 2019 The article looks at the last amendments to the Constitution of Georgia. By this amendments Georgia moves into parliamentary system. However, there are some questions: Does this system comply with European standards of parliamentary system? How will this
George Goradze
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