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Przebieg procedury ustawodawczej w Sejmie VIII kadencji — analiza ilościowa
The legislative procedure in the Sejm of the 8th term — quantitative analysis

Author(s): Zbigniew Gromek
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Governance
Published by: Kancelaria Sejmu
Keywords: legislative proceedings, Sejm of the 8th term; legislative initiative; parliamentary committees

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is to analyze, in statistical terms, the course of legislative proceedings in relation to the laws passed by the Sejm of the 8th term. The study covered the following aspects of the legislative proceedings: 1) the entity implementing the legislative initiative; 2) the time frame of the legislative procedure, broken down into individual stages thereof; 3) the characteristics of draft laws in terms of content thereof; 4) the work on draft laws in parliamentary committees; 5) the position of the Senate on the laws passed by the Sejm; 6) the President’s participation in the legislative proceedings. The analysis was carried out on the basis of data available on the Sejm’s website and includes 914 laws. The results of the study presented in the article may constitute the basis for comparing the legislative process during the 8th term of the Sejm to such process during the previous terms of the Sejm.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 31-62
  • Page Count: 32
  • Language: English, Polish