Search results for "parlamentarismi"

Kuntapäättäjän rooli aluekehitystyössä : foucault'lainen tarkastelu

2014

Tutkimuksen tavoitteena on selvittää kunnan poliittisen johdon eli kunnanvaltuutettujen roolia aluekehitystyössä. Aluekehitysprosessia tarkasteltaessa voidaan todeta, että ohjelmaperusteisen aluepolitiikan kaudella kehittämistyön poliittinen ulottuvuus liittyy aluekehitystä ohjaavien strategioiden laatimisvaiheeseen. Strategiaprosessissa kansantahtoa edustavat kunnanvaltuutetut – näin ollen kuntapäättäjien roolia aluekehitystyössä tarkasteltaessa on mahdollista arvioida demokratian toteutumista siinä. Euroopan unionin jäsenyyden jälkeen suomalaisen aluekehitystyön perusta on ollut Euroopan unionin alue- ja rakennepolitiikka, jonka käytännöt ulottuvat aina kansallisvaltioiden alue- ja paikal…

Conflicting conceptualisations of ‘democracy’ in the German Bundestag during the anti-nuclear demonstrations, 1995-2001

2018

A vigorous anti-nuclear movement emerged in Germany in the mid 1990s, when spent nuclear fuel elements began to be transported to the interim storage facility in Gorleben, Lower Saxony. Resistance to nuclear transportation continued to grow in strength throughout the 1990s. The protests expressed people’s distrust and lack of confidence in political institutions and decision-making processes. In the German Bundestag, these events relating to Gorleben caused significant political struggles over the principles and meanings of German democracy. Parliamentarians voiced competing counterarguments about the legitimacy of these demonstrations, on the one hand, and the legitimacy of the nuclear ene…

Parliamentary Democracy Versus Direct Democracy? : Challenging Liberal, Representative Democracy in the German Bundestag During the Anti-nuclear Demo…

2019

In German politics, concepts of parliamentarism and the relationship between parliamentarism and democracy have evolved since the nineteenth century. Politicians, citizens and scholars have regularly redefined and challenged conceptions of parliament’s task of representation, public debate and legitimate decision-making in different historical circumstances. One such crucial phase in re-evaluating and redefining conceptions of democracy in Germany was the second half of the 1990s, when a vigorous anti-nuclear movement arose. In the German federal parliament, members had to explain their understandings of German democracy. The tradition of liberal, representative democracy was in a conflict …

"That in the opinion of this House" : The parliamentary culture of debate in the nineteenth-century Cambridge and Oxford Union Societies

2012

The new European Parliament : the Common Agricultural Policy under codecision after the Treaty of Lisbon

2018

In this thesis, a long analysis has been undertaken that has dealt with a multitude of issues pertaining to the EU, European integration theories, codecision, the Lisbon treaty, the Common Agricultural Policy, transports policy, and environmental policy. One of the most important aspects this thesis has intended to develop is the examination of the changes in the CAP after its inclusion in the codecision system with the Lisbon Treaty after 2009 and until 2014 (seventh legislature of the EP). Interpreting these changes involves the history of the parliamentarization of the EU, mostly since the Maastricht treaty but also since the Treaty of Rome of 1957, as well as the analysis of the EP’s de…

The fragility of Finnish parliamentary democracy at the moment when Prussianism fell

2019

The Finnish case is in many ways illustrative of the complexities of democratisation after World War I. Finland found itself at the nexus of a Swedish constitutional tradition, legalism and ideological controversies adopted from Imperial Germany, the radicalised Russian Revolution, and Western parliamentary democracy. After having been a model for reformers demanding women’s suffrage, for instance, the country found itself in autumn 1918 going in the opposite direction to almost all other European countries. This article analyses the fragility of Finnish parliamentary democracy then, contrasting it with longer-term trends supportive of democratisation. ‘Democracy’ had been the goal for mos…

‘The Iraq War Momentum’ in the Struggle on the Powers of the US Congress

2019

How parliaments and legislatures participate in war-making has raised interest among researchers from different disciplines, including constitutional law and political science. While war powers are usually considered to be included in the field of the executive branch, parliaments have played an increasingly relevant role as more democratic decision-making in both normal and exceptional times has gained prominence. The comparative aspect to examine war powers between parliaments or between the branches of government is often adopted to describe the authority and legitimacy of these powers. The US Congress is considered to have strong war powers on paper compared to parliaments in other libe…

Boris Johnsonin "kansan pääministerin kyselytunti" : susi lampaan vaatteissa?

2019

Proletariaatin vallasta yhteistyöhön porvarillisten demokraattien kanssa : SDP:n eduskuntaryhmä demokratian määrittelijänä 1917–1920

2019

Pasi Ihalainen tarkastelee artikkelissaan vuosien 1917–1920 eduskunta- ja lehdistöpuhetta diskurssihistoriallisesta näkökulmasta. Hän osoittaa, miten molemminpuolinen epäluottamus ja kärjistynyt retoriikka osaltaan vaikuttivat sodan syttymiseen ja miten sodan jälkeen työväenliikkeen maltillisempi siipi päätyi yhteistyöhakuisempaan linjaan ja parlamentarismiin. nonPeerReviewed

Transnational Constructors of Parliamentary Democracy in Swedish and Finnish Constitutional Controversies, 1917–1919

2019

During the First World War, the legitimacy of established polities was challenged everywhere in Europe. Not only the combatant great powers but also smaller states witnessed a resurgence of constitutional disputes and competing ideological conceptualizations of revolution and reform, the will of the people, democracy, and parliamentarism. While these controversies primarily focused on the future of the national polities concerned, historical experiences and discourses accelerated by the war and the Russian Revolution were transnationally interconnected and contributed to discursive transfers between political cultures. Swedish and Finnish socialists were linked by their internationals, libe…