Definition, Causes, and Impacts of Multiple-Office Holding by Legislators

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.muni.cz/cepsr/article/view/6237/5598" target="_blank" >https://journals.muni.cz/cepsr/article/view/6237/5598</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CEPSR.2016.23.141" target="_blank" >10.5817/CEPSR.2016.23.141</a>

Result language

čeština

Original language name

Definice, příčiny a důsledky kumulace mandátů zákonodárci

Original language description

The article deals with various aspects of multiple-office holding. Although the phenomenon is especially influential in connection with legislators, the text offers a critical synthesis of recent findings on multiple-office holding on any level of political decision-making, thus providing a general framework for scholarly discussion and further research. The paper first provides a definition of the concept of multiple-office holding, which has been heretofore lacking in the Czech context. Causes of multiple-office holding are then delineated and divided into the three categories of historical reverberations, systemic elements and individual incentives. Both the positive and negative impacts on a political system are discussed as well. Next, three approaches (direct, indirect, and autoregulatory) of dealing with the practice of multiple-office holding, which are employed by particular political systems, are distinguished. Then, the role of a multiple-office holding in the Czech political system is depicted. The final part of the paper discusses a specific controversy linked to the phenomenon and criticises the lack of proper debates and scientific analyses on the practice.

Czech name

Definice, příčiny a důsledky kumulace mandátů zákonodárci

Czech description

The article deals with various aspects of multiple-office holding. Although the phenomenon is especially influential in connection with legislators, the text offers a critical synthesis of recent findings on multiple-office holding on any level of political decision-making, thus providing a general framework for scholarly discussion and further research. The paper first provides a definition of the concept of multiple-office holding, which has been heretofore lacking in the Czech context. Causes of multiple-office holding are then delineated and divided into the three categories of historical reverberations, systemic elements and individual incentives. Both the positive and negative impacts on a political system are discussed as well. Next, three approaches (direct, indirect, and autoregulatory) of dealing with the practice of multiple-office holding, which are employed by particular political systems, are distinguished. Then, the role of a multiple-office holding in the Czech political system is depicted. The final part of the paper discusses a specific controversy linked to the phenomenon and criticises the lack of proper debates and scientific analyses on the practice.

Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AD - Political sciences

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Středoevropské politické studie (Central European Political Studies Review.)

ISSN

1213-2691

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

18

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2-3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

30

Pages from-to

141-170

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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