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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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Identifying evolving priorities in national river governance from Parliamentary Questions
Water Policy, 2022 Rivers and their surrounding land provide resources and services that result in trade-offs requiring legislative and institutional interventions, for which the perspectives of law-policymakers and their societal values and political expediencies play a ...
Adani Azhoni +2 more
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Revista de Administração Pública, 2020 One of the functions of parliamentary questions in modern legislatures is to pressure executives to pay attention to specific issues. But can these questions effectively influence executive decisions?
Enrico Borghetto +2 more
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Parliamentary Questions and Open Government [PDF]
, 2016 Parliaments, the conventional wisdom suggests, tend to be dominated by the executive, with little ability to monitor the government’s activities. Yet, the ability of legislators to question members of the executive is an important feature of many ...
Martin, SG
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Parliamentary debates as a genre of political discourse in the Republic of South Ossetia [PDF]
Актуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики, 2019 The article is devoted to certain peculiarities of actualization of speech strategies in the genre of parliamentary debates in the Republic of South Ossetia.
Jioeva Varvilina P.
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A Comparative Study on the Functions of Political Parties in Parliamentary Oversight [PDF]
پژوهشنامه حقوق تطبیقی, 2023 Parliamentary oversight is one of the most important consequences of separation of power system which has a great role in regulating power and protecting the rights of citizens. However, several factors and tools saffect this supervision. Considering the
Seyed Ahmad Habibnezhad +2 more
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How to Argue with Questions and Answers: Argumentation Strategies in Parliamentary Deliberation
Languages, 2022 While apparently designed to request information, parliamentary questions are the most challenging and face-threatening acts, used argumentatively by opposition members of parliament (MPs) to confront and attack government MPs, and especially the Prime ...
Cornelia Ilie
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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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Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 2021 The accessibility and reuse of legal data is paramount for promoting transparency, accountability and, ultimately, trust towards governance institutions.
Sotiris Leventis +2 more
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Do Independent Fiscal Institutions Enhance Parliamentary Accountability in the Eurozone?
Politics and Governance, 2021 Independent fiscal institutions (IFIs) have been established or reformed in all eurozone countries following the reform of economic governance. As they are expected to counter the deficit bias of the governments and the information asymmetry of the ...
Cristina Fasone
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