Smart legislative regulation: investigation of the behavior of the Czech RIA Committee

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://apcz.umk.pl/EiP/article/view/37113" target="_blank" >https://apcz.umk.pl/EiP/article/view/37113</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/EiP.2021.045" target="_blank" >10.12775/EiP.2021.045</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Smart legislative regulation: investigation of the behavior of the Czech RIA Committee

Original language description

Motivation: This article studies the behavior of the Czech Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) Committee during the years between 2013?2018. This institution assesses RIAs of new laws and regulations which are in the process of ratification. Aim: The main aim was to find if the legislative change of February 3, 2016 had a direct impact on the decision-making of the Committee. Further, we ask whether there are other distinct patterns in the behavior of Czech RIA Committee members. Specifically, do the RIA Committee?s verdicts become more negative with time? We also investigate the level of independence of the Committee. In our analysis we used basic statistics: Chi-Square test of independence and regression analysis. To complete our study, we used data from a questionnaire which was distributed among RIA Committee members. Results: In our analysis we found that the legislative change did not have a direct immediate effect on the RIA Committee of the Czech Republic. However, we discovered that the RIA Committee has lost most of its independence and power in the six years of its existence. This change was gradual and most likely catalyzed by pressure from politicians. Further, voting per rollam yielded more positive results. We also discovered an institution whose RIA Committee verdicts differed significantly. Based on the findings of our research, we offer recommendations to the RIA Committee and other institutions with a similar purpose.

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

50204 - Business and management

Project

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Continuities

O - Projekt operacniho programu

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Ekonomia i Prawo. Economics and Law

ISSN

1898-2255

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

20

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

763-778

UT code for WoS article

000745765600003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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