Српски парламентарни одбори - компаративна анализа
Serbian Parliamentary Committees - Comparative Analysis

Summary/Abstract: For a long time the legislative studies have been out of focus in political science. The fall of interest in theory was paralleled with common notion of ’’decline of legislatures’’ inside the political systems. However, during the last few decades, revitalised research of parliaments, especially of their committees, has coincided with new processes of comprehensive parliamentary institutionalisation, primarily through strenghtening of committees in period which in literature is called ’’age of parliaments’’. Therefore, in this paper, the newest Rules of Procedures Act of Serbian National Assembly (july 2010) occupies central place of analysis and in it the status and roll of parliamentary committees. First, theoretical aspect of conceptualizing legislative-executive relationships is mentioned, i.e. the theory of committees as main agents influencing the nature of such relations, then structures, procedures and powers of serbian committees are examined in comparative context, as well as impact of political parties on their membership and functioning. This paper is an attempt of its writer to partly present an institutional arrangement of serbian legislature and to assess reform potentials of committees as parliamentary units.

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