Publication details
Pozměňovací návrh jako indikátor při přijímání české legislativy životního prostředí
| Title in English | Amendments as an Indicator of the Adoption of Czech Environmental Legislation |
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sociální studia |
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| Web | Webová stránka, z které je dostupný plný text článku |
| Field | Political sciences |
| Keywords | Chamber of Deputies; voting; amendment; environment |
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| Description | This paper focuses on influences on voting by members of the Parliament (MPs) of the Czech Republic on environmental legislation. First, the influence of each MP’s sociodemographic and membership variables on voting is discussed. Next, an analysis of influence of the length of mandate, age of MPs, party and committee membership, education, sex and region was conducted on a sample of 156 votes between 1995 and 2010. The outputs of analysis show that the prevailing influence on voting on the environment was party membership, which strongly correlates with other significant factors such as sex and election period. Despite the high party uniformity of voting, the possibility of influencing legislative acts through amendments does exist in the Czech Parliament: the proposal of amendments to the Czech Clean Air Act (Zákon o ovzduší) is presented as a case study in the second part of the article. Nevertheless, the proposal of amendments seems to be used as a tool of legislative strategies by political parties. Having in mind the need for an increase in transparency and responsibility in the Czech Parliament, any effort to regulate the proposal of amendments that is not joined by an increase in transparency in party processes may be seen as inefficient. |
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