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Political parties and parliamentary oversight committee seats: sharing and trading the costs The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Hallbera West
Political parties are important actors for making the chain of delegation in parliamentary systems work in practice, but less constructive in securing the corresponding chain of accountability that...
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Prorogation in Commonwealth Caribbean countries: an analysis of the relevance of the Miller decision The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Hamid Ghany
The judgment in the Miller case in the UK in September 2019 which overturned the decision of Prime Minister Boris Johnson to advise the Queen to prorogue Parliament is not applicable in the Commonw...
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Parliamentary committees’ initiative powers in Sweden – Tactical exploitation by opposition parties The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Thomas Larue, Asmir Hajdarevic
Committees’ use of their right to initiate parliament decisions have notably evolved under Sweden’s unicameral parliament. Since 2011, initiatives have increasingly served as a political instrument...
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Governments and parliaments in a state of emergency: what can we learn from the COVID-19 pandemic? The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Francesco Bromo, Paolo Gambacciani, Marco Improta
What happens in a state of emergency that is prolonged and unrelated to security with respect to the powers afforded to or used by the executive, checks and balances, and cooperation between the go...
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Second chambers and intrastate federalism: perspectives from Kenya and Nigeria The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Yonatan T. Fessha
In countries that have adopted a federal or quasi-federal system of government, second chambers could be designed to serve as an important mechanism of intrastate federalism, channelling subnationa...
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Intra-party determinants of the allocation of legislative speeches The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Michael Imre, Alejandro Ecker
Parliamentary speech is an important and highly visible feature of legislatures in democracies. Time in parliament is scarce and the allocation of floor time is characterised by largely incompatibl...
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Legislative science advice in Chile: exploring twelve years of knowledge producers participation in environmental committee discussions The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Francisca Reyes-Mendy, Stefan Gelcich Crossley, Valentina Opazo-Pina
Exploring who participates in Congress committee hearings is key to assess how diverse and representative these spaces are. This article focuses on participation in Congress committees during the d...
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Housing development, land values and the decentred state: Traditions and dilemmas in House of Commons planning debates The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Edward Shepherd
The paper examines the narratives and traditions that converged in the debates that raged in the House of Commons in response to the UK government’s controversial proposals for planning reform in 2...
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Employing the parliamentary committee of inquiry as an oversight tool: Israel as a case study The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Chen Friedberg, Assaf Shapira
A parliamentary committee of inquiry (PCI) is one of the tools with which a parliament carries out its oversight function. It enables the parliament to conduct in-depth investigations of particular...
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Parliamentary traditions in the UK: exploring beliefs, practices and dilemmas to explain change and continuity in the House of Commons The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Marc Geddes
What do ‘dilemmas’ reveal about elites’ underlying beliefs, values and attitudes to parliaments and reform? In this article, I answer this question in two ways. First, I identify three parliamentar...
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Factors influencing the impact of ex-post legislative evaluations: a scoping review The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Linda J. Knap, Roland D. Friele, Rob van Gameren, Johan Legemaate
This article explores the factors that influence the impact of ex-post legislative evaluations and suggests that these factors can be divided into three main categories: context, research quality, ...
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Wartime legislative political inclusivity and the likelihood of negotiated ends to civil wars The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-11 John Ishiyama
Many scholars have argued that political inclusivity helps pre-empt civil war incidence and helps build peace and democracy after a civil war ends. However very little work has been done on assessi...
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Professionalised or not? An analysis of career patterns in the European parliament (1979–2019) The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-16 Paolo Marzi, Luca Verzichelli
Due to the high levels of turnover displayed by its political personnel, the European parliament has been traditionally regarded as a relatively unstable institution. However, recent literature see...
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Voting in the shadow of Russian aggression. Evidence from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe 2012–2016 The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Thomas Malang, Veronika Ohliger
ABSTRACT The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is not just the oldest but also the most institutionalised and powerful international parliamentary assembly. As transnational parliamentary body with the Russian Federation and Ukraine among its members, it showcases a laboratory for transnational parliamentary voting behaviour in the context of international geopolitical conflicts
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Committee hearings as parliamentary public engagement: A global perspective The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Maya Kornberg, Sven T. Siefken
Committees are important units of parliaments around the world, but their use in public engagement has been underexplored. Committees can conduct public hearings, which have been analysed as tools ...
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Refreshing democracy through better public engagement The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Martin Chungong
Published in The Journal of Legislative Studies (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2023)
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Populism and parliamentary opposition parties: the Economic Freedom Fighters party behaviour in the South African parliament The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Ainara Mancebo
ABSTRACT In the midst of varying crises, South Africa has experienced a rise of populism in the last decade. New incomers have arrived in the electoral arena, presenting new challenges to the ruling party, African National Congress, with the remarkable electoral success of the Economic Freedom Fighters party, which has become the third largest party in parliament. At its core this article represents
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Anti-war or alliance? roll-call votes of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea on war issues (2003–2007) The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Hwalmin Jin
ABSTRACT The study investigates the influence of electoral concerns at the district level on war issues that examine the roll-call votes of lawmakers in the National Assembly of South Korea. The central claim of the article is that South Korean legislators are sensitive to electoral concerns when deciding to vote for war bills. Scholars suggest several factors, but none sufficiently explain the roll-call
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Conclusion The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Maya Kornberg, Alex Prior
Published in The Journal of Legislative Studies (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2023)
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The development of public engagement as a core institutional role for parliaments The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Cristina Leston-Bandeira, Sven T. Siefken
Public engagement has become a noticeable activity for parliaments across the world. However, we lack understanding of its role despite considerable developments in scholarly work on public engagem...
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Conscientiousness of representatives and agreement with their party positions The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Pirmin Bundi, Frédéric Varone, Peter Loewen, Christian Breunig
ABSTRACT Party unity is an important feature in contemporary democracies. Ideological loyalty, disciplinary measures implemented by party leaders and homogeneity of preferences among elected representatives lead them to act in unison. This study focuses on the last mechanism and assesses under which conditions party representatives agree on policy positions. It argues that the personality trait of
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Game of deals: bargaining behaviour of the European parliament in the Brexit process The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Monika Brusenbauch Meislová
ABSTRACT The article provides an in-depth analysis of the various bargaining strategies that the European Parliament (EP) used to leverage its influence over the negotiations of the Withdrawal Agreement and the Trade and Cooperation Agreement. More specifically, it focuses on five bargaining self-empowerment strategies (obstructing, moving first, issue-linking, allying with other actors, and mobilising
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Legislative electoral incumbent defeats: Cues from Ghana The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Kingsley S. Agomor, Daniel Kofi Banini, Zechariah Langnel
ABSTRACT The argument that incumbent politicians are frequently reelected into office gained traction in the legislative literature – giving birth to the incumbency advantage theory. This paper investigates why incumbents lost elections they are supposed to win – subjecting the incumbency advantage theory to new scrutiny. Using interview data collected in 2017 examining Ghana's 2016 parliamentary and
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Parties and professionals, an exploration of turnover in U.S. state legislatures The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Jordan Butcher
ABSTRACT Legislative turnover is a tool that helps us to understand how the legislature functions and what attracts lawmakers to serve. The variation among U.S. state legislatures presents a unique opportunity to explore the factors contributing to turnover rates. The existing research on legislative professionalisation, party control, and party competition point to possible mechanisms for member retention
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Our future in space: the physical and virtual opening-up of parliaments to publics The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Alex Prior, Maanasa Sivashankar
Parliaments are physical symbols of nationhood and democracy. Public access to these spaces is often strictly regulated, yet it remains highly influential to public experiences of parliament (and t...
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Why would a majority agree to adopting supermajority rules when they empower a minority? The institutional choice of the National Assembly of Korea The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Gyung-Ho Jeong
ABSTRACT Despite the importance of supermajority rules in protecting minorities, our understanding of supermajority rules has been limited to the experience of the U.S. Senate. This study seeks to contribute to our understanding of institutional choice by introducing another case of supermajority-rule adoption. Once known for legislative brawls, the National Assembly of Korea reformed its procedures
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Penalizing women MPs: the approval of women-initiated bills in the Turkish parliament The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-09 Eduardo Alemán, Saadet Konak Unal
ABSTRACT This article examines the effect of female bill authorship on bill approval. The analysis focuses on the Turkish Parliament between 2002 and 2015. During this time, the Islamic Justice and Development Party controlled the country’s government and a parliamentary majority, and gender issues became central to political discourse. Using a novel data set of content-coded private members’ bills
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Building public engagement in small island nations The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-09 Frank Feulner, Marine Guéguin
Research of parliaments regularly focuses on larger, well-known parliaments. Practices of parliaments of small jurisdictions are often overlooked. This paper investigates public engagement by parli...
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Turning public engagement into standard practice: institutionalisation in the work of the South African Parliament The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-09 Temitayo Isaac Odeyemi, Damilola Temitope Olorunshola, Boluwatife Solomon Ajibola
Previous research and observed practices demonstrate that as hubs of public participation in governance, parliaments are devising means and prioritising resources that promote more public-facing in...
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Closing the gap: establishing a ‘feedback loop’ for effective parliamentary public engagement The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Christine Sheldon
Are parliamentary engagement initiatives effective? Do they add to the quality of democracy? And how can they reach a wider audience? These are key questions which, when answered, can improve a par...
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Committee collaboration, competing principals, and partisanship in Argentina The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Paula Clerici
ABSTRACT When will legislators assigned to the same committee cooperate with each other? In federal presidential regimes, both the President and governors demand policy answers from members of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Legislators’ preferences sometimes coincide with those of the President and the governors of their home states; on other occasions, they only align with the preferences
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Legislative ex-post impact assessments in Europe: applying a new assessment framework for comparative institutional analysis on Post-Legislative Scrutiny by national parliaments in Europe The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Franklin De Vrieze
ABSTRACT This article analyses parliamentary practices in conducting Post-Legislative Scrutiny (PLS) in Germany, Italy, France, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom against four categories of parliamentary approach in PLS. Parliaments as passive scrutinisers have few parliamentary structures, capacity and procedures for PLS and no parliamentary PLS reports. Parliaments as informal scrutinisers
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Institutional change and partisanship in the Canadian Senate The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-19 Michelle Caplan, Christopher Alcantara, Mathieu Turgeon
ABSTRACT The Canadian Senate was originally designed to act as an independent check on the House of Commons but over time, rampant and increasing partisanship rendered the Senate illegitimate in the eyes of the public. In 2014, Liberal leader Justin Trudeau tried to reverse these trends by expelling all Liberal Senators from his party in hopes of reducing partisanship and restoring the Senate to its
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A culture of rights finding its feet: parliamentary human rights scrutiny in the Australian Capital Territory The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Sean Mulcahy, Kate Seear
ABSTRACT In developing the Australian Capital Territory's Human Rights Act 2004 Human Rights Act. (2004). (ACT). [Google Scholar], the Bill of Rights Consultative Committee argued that ‘its primary purpose should be to encourage the development of a human rights-respecting culture’. But what does a ‘human rights-respecting culture’ look like? Commonly, a ‘culture of human rights’ is defined as a pattern
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The impact of ex-post legislative evaluations: a scoping review The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Linda J. Knap, Rob van Gameren, Valérie D.V. Sankatsing, Johan Legemaate, Roland D. Friele, Nivel 2022
ABSTRACT In various countries, laws are increasingly being evaluated by examining the effects in practice once a law enters into force. No systematic overview currently exists on the impact of these ex-post legislative evaluations. Therefore, this scoping review systematically examines the various types of impact of ex-post legislative evaluations. The studies we looked at demonstrate different types
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Opposition parties in times of pandemics The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Lydia Laflamme, Jeanne Milot-Poulin, Jeanne Desrosiers, Cedrik Verreault, Carolane Fillion, Nicolas Patenaude, Marc André Bodet
ABSTRACT The first political casualties of crises are often opposition parties. In such times, there is a tendency to rally around leadership and value collective solidarity above all partisan considerations. We use data from parliamentary speeches, media interventions, and a series of interviews with key Quebec provincial parliamentarians to test whether and how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected
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Where is Linz’s gridlock? Salvador Allende and the success of presidential bills in Chile, 1958–1973 The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Patricio Navia, Rodrigo Osorio, Pablo Toro Monroy
ABSTRACT We study the success of presidential bills in Chile between 1958 and 1973 and disprove the claim, made by Linz and others, in the debate on the perils of presidentialism, that Salvador Allende (1970–1973) suffered from legislative paralysis. We revise the 1113 bills introduced by presidents Jorge Alessandri (1958–1964), Eduardo Frei (1964–1970) and Allende, and identified those enacted. Allende
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EU parliaments in a post-constitutionalising stage: competitors or allies? The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Katharina L. Meissner, Ben Crum
ABSTRACT More than a decade has passed since the Lisbon Treaty explicated two channels of democratic representation in the European Union (EU): one directly through the European Parliament (EP) and one indirectly through national parliaments. This review article uses a wave of recent case studies to analyse how relations between national parliaments and the EP have evolved in practice in the post-Lisbon
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Pathways to women’s electoral representation: the global effectiveness of legislative gender quotas over time The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-07 Xuhong Su, Wenbo Chen
ABSTRACT This inquiry investigates the effectiveness of legislative gender quotas on women’s electoral representation and how it evolves over time and across countries. Using 190 countries spanning between 1947 and 2015, the findings suggest that quotas’ effectiveness is conditional on types and features, varies with time and imprinted with countries’ historical representation status. Reserved seats
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Arguing in their own way or adapting to the masculine world? An analysis of male and female argumentative styles in the Czech Chamber of Deputies The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-07 Petra Vodová, Iva Svačinová
ABSTRACT This article is focused on the differences in argumentation of male and female MPs and the impact of parliamentary experience and party ideology. Our pragma-dialectical analysis of argumentation encompasses 150 parliamentary speeches in the Czech Chamber of Deputies (2017–2019). The results show that gender does not influence the number of concrete arguments in the speeches, but women use
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The value of parliamentary roles in pandemic crises: the Indonesian case The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Saru Arifin
ABSTRACT As most state constitutions classify pandemics as state emergencies, the government or executive branch is responsible for responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in most countries around the globe. Nonetheless, no nation, including Indonesia, can win the pandemic war without the assistance of other governmental authorities, such as the Parliament. This article argues that because the Indonesian
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The conditions of committee importance – drawing lessons from a qualitative case study of Finland The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Ville Aula, Tapio Raunio
ABSTRACT Theories of parliamentary committees are often contradictory and recent studies have emphasised the need for theoretically-informed qualitative analyses of committee practices. In this paper we draw from 81 interviews with Finnish politicians, party employees, and parliamentary officials to analyse seven theoretical propositions. We show that contradictory theories to hold true under different
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Legislative violence in Ghana: a threat to democracy? The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-20 Maame Efua Addadzi-Koom, Kwadwo Bioh Agyei
ABSTRACT In 2021, parliamentary proceedings under the fourth republic started and ended with physical violence. The paper examines the incidents, determinants and effects of legislative violence in Ghana by drawing on the theories of credible commitment and democracy. We address two questions: what factors explain the legislative violence incidents in Ghana’s 8th parliament? and what consequences does
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Congruence between voters and representatives in preferences for social policies in Spain The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Antonio M. Jaime-Castillo, Xavier Coller
ABSTRACT In some countries public opinion is consistently highly supportive of redistribution, while policy outcomes do not always produce high levels of redistribution. According to the political congruence literature this might be due to a biased representation of policy preferences, as those of high socio-economic status are expected to be better represented in the political process. To illuminate
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National opposition parties within the inter-parliamentary conference on stability, economic coordination and governance in the EU The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Luca Bartolucci, Nicola Lupo
ABSTRACT While the institutional dimension of inter-parliamentary cooperation has been the subject of intense research, much less is known about the involvement of partisan actors, and more specifically of members of opposition parties. This article aims to bridge this gap by looking at the composition of parliamentary delegations to the meetings of the inter-parliamentary conference on stability,
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If there is nothing else to say: the local content of interpellations The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-02 Csaba Molnár
ABSTRACT Parliamentary questions have several functions in modern democracies. Academic literature also presents that this tool also exists in non-democratic regimes, even though with limited functions. In this paper, we investigate the more than 14,000 interpellations posed in the Hungarian parliament between 1867 and 2018 through various regimes, asking the question how does the regime and its institutional
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The Irish parliament and the recovery and resilience plan: giving up on national influence on EU matters by parliamentary means? The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-02 Gavin Barrett
ABSTRACT Most accounts of parliamentary involvement in European affairs describe a gradual increase over time in the role of national parliaments. However, it is also possible for parliamentary involvement to stagnate or decline over time. The argument of this article is that such inertia or decline is being seen in Ireland when it comes to EU-related crises, such as the COVID-19-inspired economic
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Accountability, analysis and avoidance: how PMO data impacts on Westminster The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Ben Worthy, Stefani Langehennig
ABSTRACT Parliamentary Monitoring Organisations [PMOs] seek to make legislators more accountable and reduce the potential moral hazards of delegation. This study of the UK finds that PMOs do reduce such hazards and make for greater ‘informatory’ accountability from MPs and Peers. The primary effect is on the House of Commons, and on individual MPs, where information seeking is most frequently local
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Legislative veto players and human rights treaty signature timing The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-20 Audrey L. Comstock
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the relationship between domestic legislative veto players and human rights treaty commitment. While research connects legislative veto players with ratification delays, I argue that legislative veto players also shape the timing of nonbinding treaty signature. Confronted with the possibility of ratification delay or rejection, executives in states requiring legislative
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A legal analysis of Kosovo’s use of the state of emergency during the Covid-19 pandemic The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Haxhi Xhemajli, Nur Çeku
ABSTRACT The legal regulation of the state of emergency is a very wide and controversial due to the fact that the tension between the branches of government, which is not so obvious in everyday life, is often more transparent in cases of state emergency. This tension appeared in many countries as well as in Kosovo during the application of the measures to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, and which
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Law-making in the time of pandemic as a new state of emergency in Indonesia The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-08 Ryan Muthiara Wasti, Nisrina Irbah Sati, Fatmawati
ABSTRACT During the occurrence of the Covid-19 pandemic, the laws made by the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia (DPR) as a legislative body, ideally, should not cease to reflect society's needs pursuant to the realisation of the representation principle. In analysing the fulfilment of such an ideal conception with the reality of its implementation, this paper aims to discuss the
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The Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly: a transnational accountability forum in a time of crisis? The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Karolina Borońska-Hryniewiecka, Lucy Kinski
ABSTRACT The Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly (FGPA) set up in March 2019 is the result of an unprecedented collaboration between the parliaments of the two most powerful member states of the European Union (EU). While this bi-parliamentary assembly has received some attention by political think tanks, we know very little about its potential transformative effect on bilateral executive accountability
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Parliaments’ involvement in the Recovery and Resilience Facility The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Bruno Dias Pinheiro, Cristina Sofia Dias
ABSTRACT The article analyses the national parliaments’ role in assessing and following up on national Recovery and Resilience Plans (RRP) as a proxy for their further involvement in Economic Governance. It also highlights the scope available for the European Parliament in RRP scrutiny, and possible ways forward for a common parliamentary approach to upcoming challenges. The article proposes to deepen
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National parliaments’ resilience under the Euro-zone and the Covid-19 crises: continuity and discontinuity in the Euro-national scrutiny The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Elena Griglio
ABSTRACT Among the epochal crises experienced by the EU in the last 15 years, the Euro-zone and the Covid-19 stand out for their impact on the Euro-national economic and financial governance structure, which challenges the relationship between the executive and the legislative branches and raises major concerns for the role of national parliaments. This contribution aims to analyse how national parliaments
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Does the European Central Bank speak differently when in parliament? The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Nicolò Fraccaroli, Alessandro Giovannini, Jean-François Jamet, Eric Persson
ABSTRACT Parliamentary hearings are a fundamental tool to hold independent central banks accountable. However, it is not clear what type of information central banks provide when they communicate with parliaments. In this article, we compare the communication of the European Central Bank (ECB) in parliamentary hearings to its communication in the press conferences. Using text analysis on the ECB President’s
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Introduction: democratic accountability in the EU economic governance post-crises: its many faces and potential outstanding gaps The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Karolina Borońska-Hryniewiecka, Diane Fromage
ABSTRACT The article introduces the special issue ‘Parliaments in times of crises: democratic accountability in the EU economic governance from the euro to the COVID crisis’ explaining how it seeks to make a novel contribution in the field of parliamentary studies. It first explains the trajectory of the crisis-driven institutional changes affecting parliaments from the great financial crisis to the
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Fighting back? The role of the European Parliament in the adoption of Next Generation EU The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Cristina Fasone
ABSTRACT The article aims to assess how and why the EP played the role of EU democratic institution par excellence in the procedures leading to the adoption of the anti-pandemic measures from February 2020 till February 2021: Which arguments has the EP sought to advance in the various stages, for what reasons, and how successful it was? Indeed, while it is undeniable that certain contextual elements
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The European Parliament in the Economic and Monetary Union after COVID: towards a slow empowerment? The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Diane Fromage, Menelaos Markakis
ABSTRACT The European Parliament (EP)’s role in the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has always been rather limited. Its prerogatives were somewhat reinforced after the Euro crisis, but its role in policy implementation remained minimal. However, because of the pandemic, the level of integration at the supranational level has significantly increased as a result of, among others, the adoption of unique
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The promises and pitfalls of the ECB’s ‘legitimacy-as-accountability’ towards the European parliament post-crisis The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-31 Sebastian Diessner
ABSTRACT This article argues that the European Central Bank’s legitimacy mainly rests upon ‘throughput legitimacy’ in practice and, in particular, upon perceptions of accountability among the ECB’s main political audiences, including the members of the European Parliament. This thin and contingent ‘legitimacy-as-accountability’ gives rise to a tension post-crisis: on the one hand, the ECB’s enlarged
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Influence of politicians’ ideology on their legislative activities: the case of South Korea The Journal of Legislative Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Hoyong Jung
ABSTRACT The legislative bill is a critical factor in assessing whether a representative democracy is functioning well, and the politicians’ ideologies have a significant impact on legislative activities. By investigating complete legislative bills in Korea’s parliament from 2004 to 2016, classified using machine-learning techniques, and politicians’ ideology, measured by the W-NOMINATE method, this