Second parliamentary chambers as safeguards against democratic backsliding? Case study of Czech and Polish senates
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F26482789%3A_____%2F22%3A10152423" target="_blank" >RIV/26482789:_____/22:10152423 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://ejes.uaic.ro/articles/EJES2022_13SI_JUS.pdf" target="_blank" >https://ejes.uaic.ro/articles/EJES2022_13SI_JUS.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.47743/ejes-2022-SI09" target="_blank" >10.47743/ejes-2022-SI09</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Second parliamentary chambers as safeguards against democratic backsliding? Case study of Czech and Polish senates
Original language description
The Czech Republic and Poland represent countries with bicameral parliaments, where the existence of second chambers has often been questioned because both countries represent unitary political systems. While the demand for territorial representation is often quoted as the key reason for establishing second chambers, there are other principles of second chamber representation and / or roles they are playing. One of them is the expansion of the checks-and-balances system beyond the traditional executive - legislative - judicial triangle. The existence of two chambers also brings the check-and-balance principle inside the legislative branch itself. Second chambers are thus understood as certain guarantors of constitutionality and democracy. The article focuses on the role the second chambers in the Czech Republic and Poland have played in the process of preventing democratic backsliding, a recent phenomenon visible in CEE. The problem will be analyzed in the context of the compositional (in)congruence, the constitutional position and powers of both second chambers. It will also analyze whether the current Czech and Polish institutional frameworks allow for second chambers to act as guarantors of constitutionality and democracy.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - 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
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Eastern Journal of European Studies
ISSN
2068-651X
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
13
Issue of the periodical within the volume
neuveden
Country of publishing house
RO - ROMANIA
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
164-182
UT code for WoS article
000875668900009
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85140772592