South African Opposition Party Behaviour Under the National State of Disaster to Respond to the Covid-19 Pandemic

IF 0.9 4区社会学 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Politikon Pub Date : 2021-04-03 DOI:10.1080/02589346.2021.1917205

Ainara Mancebo

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ABSTRACT The President of the Republic of South Africa declared a national state of disaster, in terms of the Disaster Management Act 2002 (Act 57 of 2002) on the 16th of March 2020, which empowers the executive to coordinate disaster management mechanism that focuses on preventing and reducing the outbreak of Covid-19 virus. In other words, the legislative and executive functions of the state have effectively been lapsed into one. This case study examines the consequences of this type of emergency regime on the behaviour of parliamentary opposition parties. Parliaments initiate, prepare and pass legislation, as well as exercise oversight and hold government to account. I look at the number of amendments, oral and written questions for a limited period of six months from the announcement of the national state of disaster, and compare with the same period the previous years, 2018, 2019, 2020, to determine if the changing nature of executive-legislative constitutional balance has influenced the behaviour of opposition parties in their strategies relating to policy-making and scrutiny.

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国家灾难状态下南非反对党应对Covid-19大流行的行为

摘要根据《2002年灾害管理法》（2002年第57号法案），南非共和国总统于2020年3月16日宣布全国进入灾害状态，该法案授权行政部门协调灾害管理机制，重点预防和减少新冠肺炎病毒的爆发。换言之，国家的立法和行政职能实际上已经合二为一。本案例研究考察了这种紧急制度对议会反对党行为的影响。议会发起、准备和通过立法，并进行监督和追究政府责任。我查看了自宣布国家灾难状态起六个月内的修正案、口头和书面问题数量，并与前几年同期（2018年、2019年、2020年）进行了比较，以确定行政-立法-宪法平衡性质的变化是否影响了反对党在决策和审查策略方面的行为。

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Politikon POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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32 weeks

期刊介绍： Politikon focuses primarily on South African politics, but not exclusively so. Over the years the journal has published articles by some of the world" leading political scientists, including Arend Lijphart, Samuel Huntingdon, and Philippe Schmitter. It has also featured important contributions from South Africa"s leading political philosophers, political scientists and international relations experts. It has proved an influential journal, particularly in debates over the merits of South Africa"s constitutional reforms (in 1983 and 1994). In the last few years special issues have focused on women and politics in South Africa, and the South African election of 1999.