The Primacy of a Decision Taken in a Local Referendum over a Contract Concluded by Local Self-Government Bodies: the Example of the Czech Republic

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://prawoiwiez.edu.pl/index.php/piw/article/view/1181" target="_blank" >https://prawoiwiez.edu.pl/index.php/piw/article/view/1181</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.36128/PRIW.VI55.1181" target="_blank" >10.36128/PRIW.VI55.1181</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The Primacy of a Decision Taken in a Local Referendum over a Contract Concluded by Local Self-Government Bodies: the Example of the Czech Republic

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

A well-functioning local self-government provides the greatest scope - given the proximity of its members to their elected representatives and the proximity of both groups to the issues - for the realisation of its members' political rights and their ideas about the governance of the area. In many ways, local governments are "laboratories" of the representative system and democracy. They provide direct opportunities for the expression of different views and positions. If the legal system of a country allows for direct instruments of democracy at the local level, as in the Czech Republic, then there is room for a direct conflict between the interests and intentions promoted by elected representatives and the ideas of their constituents. The result can be a legal problem as to which decision is legally preferable, especially if the decision of the elected bodies is enshrined in a binding legal contract. This question has arisen repeatedly in the Czech Republic, until the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic ruled in a series of decisions that there is no such thing as a "perpetual contract" and that a concluded contract cannot be an obstacle to holding a local referendum.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The Primacy of a Decision Taken in a Local Referendum over a Contract Concluded by Local Self-Government Bodies: the Example of the Czech Republic

Popis výsledku anglicky

A well-functioning local self-government provides the greatest scope - given the proximity of its members to their elected representatives and the proximity of both groups to the issues - for the realisation of its members' political rights and their ideas about the governance of the area. In many ways, local governments are "laboratories" of the representative system and democracy. They provide direct opportunities for the expression of different views and positions. If the legal system of a country allows for direct instruments of democracy at the local level, as in the Czech Republic, then there is room for a direct conflict between the interests and intentions promoted by elected representatives and the ideas of their constituents. The result can be a legal problem as to which decision is legally preferable, especially if the decision of the elected bodies is enshrined in a binding legal contract. This question has arisen repeatedly in the Czech Republic, until the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic ruled in a series of decisions that there is no such thing as a "perpetual contract" and that a concluded contract cannot be an obstacle to holding a local referendum.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50500 - Law

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Prawo i Więż

ISSN

2299-405X

e-ISSN

2719-3594

Svazek periodika

55

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

PL - Polská republika

Počet stran výsledku

22

Strana od-do

93-114

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105008911089