El presente estudio tiene por objeto analizar la supresión de los debates de política general del texto definitivo de la Constitución Española de 1978 por parte de la Comisión Mixta Congreso-Senado. / The present study aims to analyze the suppression of the general policy debates of the final text of the Spanish Constitution of 1978 by the Mixed C...
This research approaches parliamentary control of government ethics in Argentina as a case study from a neoinstitutionalist and informational framework. In this sense, the article firstly advances a theoretical analysis of parliamentary organization and the control function taking into account the specialized bibliography in comparative politics. C...
This work analyses an important Judgment of the Constitutional Court that establishes, for the first time in constitutional jurisprudence (there had been no case on this before), the relevance of parliamentary control of the outgoing Governments, consolidating an understanding of control, in the democratic State, and of parliamentary control, in ou...
This paper applies statistical analysis techniques on the 574 royal decree laws approved in Spain between 1979 and 2018. It studies the frequency of their use, their extension, complexity and impact on the legal system, as well as the subsequent parliamentary procedure and the level of litigiousness before the Constitutional Court. Correlations are...
The extraordinary and “last ratio” character that characterizes state coercion determines the procedure of this modality of Law of exception, which does not respond to ordinary conflict resolution procedures between the State and the Autonomous Communities. From the time the requirement is neglected by the President of the Community to the approval...
This article explores the different ways governments express dissent in the Council of the European Union (EU) through ‘No’ votes, abstentions and recorded negative statements. A gametheoretical model is presented that studies voting behaviour and analyses how the national parliaments’ levels of control over their governments’ EU policies affect it...
This dissertation analyses the idea that parliament controls public money in parliamentary constitutional systems of government. That analysis proceeds through an historical and contemporary examination of the way legal practices distribute authority over public money between different institutions of government. The legislative and judicial practi...
El presente trabajo aborda las especificidades que ofrece el control parlamentario de los excesos de delegación en los Decretos legislativos autonómicos. Se analizan en él las generalizadas similitudes reinantes en este tema con respecto al modelo estatal, y también las diferencias significativas presentes en los sistemas respectivos de algunas Com...
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The Parliamentary control is exerted not only on the Government but also on some autonomous administrative authorities and on some special bodies under its subordination. The constitutional norms are extremely synthetic on this form of parliamentary control, as only the art. 116 par. 2 of the Constitution stipulates that specialised bodies may be e...
This work defends, initially, the constitutionality as well as the pertinence of the incorporation of the Decree laws to the systems of sources of Autonomous Communities. Notwithstanding, it also explains how the Statutes of Autonomy not only cultivated the severe deficits of control, both jurisdictionally and parliamentary, of the corresponding st...
