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Mitul supradimensionării legislative
The Myth of Legislative Overdimension

Author(s): Mihai Ghiţulescu
Subject(s): Government/Political systems, Evaluation research
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: assembly size; reduction; public opinion; „cube-root law”; population; seats;

Summary/Abstract: This study approaches the proposal to reduce the size of the Romanian Parliament from several perspectives: (i) of the public opinion, (ii) of tthe political actors, (iii) of the political scientists (paying a special attention to the „cube-root law”) and (iv) in comparison with the other EU Member States. The conclusion is that the issue has more to do with the political and electoral practice rather than with the state reform. Athough the oversize and the necessity of the reduction seem so obvious, I try to prove that they are actually part of a complex, well conceived and hardly efficient political myth.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 24
  • Page Range: 84-97
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Romanian
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