Amending the Slovak Parliamentary Rules of Procedure : Effective Changes or the Government’s Weapon against the Opposition?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.ceeol.com/search/viewpdf?id=721662" target="_blank" >https://www.ceeol.com/search/viewpdf?id=721662</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/PC2018-3-185" target="_blank" >10.5817/PC2018-3-185</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Amending the Slovak Parliamentary Rules of Procedure : Effective Changes or the Government’s Weapon against the Opposition?

Original language description

Parliament is considered one of the most important institutions in representative democracies. However, Rules of Procedure as institutional regulation of its activity have been rarely analysed. This paper aims to fill this gap by conducting an analysis of amending the Rules of Procedure of the Slovak legislature in the period 1998–2016, almost its entire existence. The analysis not only covers passed amendments but also looks at proposed but unpassed ones. The main assumption is that through changing the parliamentary rules, the parliament adapts itself to specific trends. These are identified in the paper, as well as the main categories the proposed amendments concentrated on, distinguishing between redistributive and effective amendments. One of the key findings of the paper is that it is not the government that dominates the process of proposing amendments to the parliamentary rules. On the other hand, when we look at passed amendments only, the government is, then, the dominant actor. The assumption that the amendments of the Rules of Procedure are primarily of a redistributive character was not verified. Despite the fact that amending these rules may be used by the governmental majority to redistribute the power in the Slovak parliament, in practise, such behaviour is rather infrequent and cannot be described as the government’s weapon against the opposition.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Politologický časopis

ISSN

1211-3247

e-ISSN

1805-9503

Volume of the periodical

25

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

185-205

UT code for WoS article

000455479700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85057741585