{"title":"The Rise of Data and ai in Parliamentary Proceedings – The Norwegian Parliament, Stortinget","authors":"Tanja Wahl","doi":"10.1163/26668912-bja10080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26668912-bja10080","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In 2019 the administration of the Norwegian Parliament designed and adopted a strategic goal for digitization: The Parliament shall exchange, process, publish and preserve parliamentary information digitally and efficiently, with good quality. One outcome of this effort was the project “StorSak”. This project aims to implement an information system which handles document production and parliamentary proceedings in a coherent digital value-chain. One of the investment areas in the StorSak project is exploring the use of machine learning (ml) and artificial intelligence (ai). The project quickly singled out metadata handling as an area of interest, and the categorization of documents and proceedings using theme wording.","PeriodicalId":483233,"journal":{"name":"International journal of parliamentary studies","volume":"29 25","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140257437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Impact of Minority Veto in Consociational Democracies","authors":"Rinor Beka, Arben Qirezi","doi":"10.1163/26668912-bja10079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26668912-bja10079","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Developing governance models that are suitable for the effective management of ethnically divided societies arising from conflicts presents a significant challenge for both scholars and peace mediators. The consociational model, founded on power-sharing principles, has emerged as a means of guiding groups which were previously in conflict towards creating institutional frameworks that can help manage divisions and promote peaceful coexistence. In situations where mutual trust is lacking and deep-seated ethnic, religious, or linguistic divisions persist, it is unrealistic to anticipate that minority groups would willingly grant unrestricted decision-making authority to the majority. Consequently, the notion of constraining the majority’s decision-making powers on specific matters, unless it has the consent of minority groups through the implementation of veto rights, has become a fundamental principle for negotiating post-conflict institutional arrangements. This article aims to investigate the practical ramifications of veto rights within consociational systems, focusing on their incorporation into Kosovo’s legal framework post-2008 and their actual implementation in the years that followed. The article seeks to shed light on how veto rights contribute to consensus-based decision-making, the potential for disruption when exploited by irresponsible political leaders, and the possibilities of revisiting these arrangements to address any shortcomings.","PeriodicalId":483233,"journal":{"name":"International journal of parliamentary studies","volume":"8 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140258466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Swedish-Norwegian Experience of Increased Budget Control Due to Hierarchical Budget Reforms in their National Parliaments","authors":"Karl Eirik Schjøtt-Pedersen","doi":"10.1163/26668912-bja10081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26668912-bja10081","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000There has been a wide-ranging discourse among scholars as to whether a hierarchical budget process contributes to increased fiscal discipline. During the 1990s such reforms were introduced in Sweden and Norway. These countries are characterized as being quite equal. However, they faced contrary economic challenges, with an accelerating debt in Sweden contrasting with huge resource revenues in Norway. Nonetheless, they shared equal political challenges by being characterized by minority as well as coalition governments, and even a large proportion of minority, coalition governments. This study confirms that there has been significantly increased fiscal discipline during the parliament’s budget approval process. The outcome has been supported by reforms to the preparation of the budget approval, which have been centralized to the parliaments’ standing committees on finance. The study supports the framework for evaluation of budget processes in von Hagen and Harden (1995). However, there are two significant modifications which stands out as supplements to the framework. First, strong limitations on amendments may be less important under a regime of top-down budgeting than anticipated in their framework. Second, the importance of centralizing the budget preparation in one specific committee, normally the standing committee on finance, may be stronger than anticipated by von Hagen and Harden.","PeriodicalId":483233,"journal":{"name":"International journal of parliamentary studies","volume":"201 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140281961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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