Disempowerment through the Backdoor: The Impact of Populist Parties on the National Parliament in Poland

IF 1.3 3区社会学 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Parliamentary Affairs Pub Date : 2021-03-03 DOI:10.1093/PA/GSAB008

Aleksandra Maatsch

引用次数: 3

Abstract

Do populist governments disempower parliaments? If so, which strategies do they employ to do it? The empirical analysis here concerns two legislative periods in Poland: T1 2011–2015 (centre-right coalition, populist actors in the opposition) and T2 2015–2018 (populist government). The article traces changes in formal rules regulating scrutiny and law-making but also how these rules were interpreted and exercised. The article addresses the following explanatory factors: position in government, strength of parliamentary formal provisions and the readiness of political actors to revise institutional competences. The article shows that although changes to formal parliamentary powers were minor, disempowerment of the legislative was profound. The outcome has actually been achieved through radical changes in parliamentary practices regarding both law-making and scrutiny.

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借壳剥夺权力:民粹主义政党对波兰国民议会的影响

民粹主义政府是否剥夺了议会的权力？如果是，他们会采用哪些策略来做到这一点？这里的实证分析涉及波兰的两个立法时期：2011年至2015年T1（中右翼联盟，反对派中的民粹主义行为者）和2015年至2018年T2（民粹主义政府）。这篇文章追溯了规范审查和立法的正式规则的变化，以及这些规则是如何解释和行使的。这篇文章论述了以下解释因素：在政府中的地位、议会正式条款的力度以及政治行为者修改机构权限的意愿。这篇文章表明，尽管正式议会权力的变化很小，但立法权力的剥夺是深远的。事实上，这一结果是通过彻底改变议会在立法和审查方面的做法而实现的。

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Parliamentary Affairs POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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3.00

自引率

8.30%

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期刊介绍： Parliamentary Affairs is an established, peer-reviewed academic quarterly covering all the aspects of government and politics directly or indirectly connected with Parliament and parliamentary systems in Britain and throughout the world. The journal is published in partnership with the Hansard Society. The Society was created to promote parliamentary democracy throughout the world, a theme which is reflected in the pages of Parliamentary Affairs.