Magistrinio darbo tema - Parlamentinio valdymo formavimas Lietuvoje ir Estijoje: palyginamoji analizė. Politologo G.E. Isakssono teorijoje pateikiami trys parlamentinio valdymo kriterijai - daugumos, santykinės daugumos ir rinkimų laimėjimo, kuriais vadovaujantis suformuotas parlamentinis valdymas geriausiai atspindėtų rinkėjų išreikštą pasirinkimą, taip sudaryta parlamentinė sistema būtų optimaliai sėkmingiausia. Tačiau teorija nutolsta nuo praktikos, kas ir steigia darbo problemą – šių kriterijų taikomumo paiešką Lietuvos ir Estijos parlamentinio valdymo formavime. Tyrimo objektas, tai yra konkretus darbo atskaitos taškas, yra parlamentinio valdymo kriterijų pritaikomumas formuojant parlamentines Lietuvos ir Estijos valdžias. Magistrinio darbo tikslas – ištirti suformuotas Lietuvos ir Estijos parlamentines valdžias pagal daugumos, santykinės daugumos ir rinkimų laimėjimo kriterijus. Šį tikslą realizuoti padeda išsikelti uždaviniai, pagrindiniai iš jų: palyginti Lietuvos ir Estijos parlamentiniame valdyme aptinkamą parlamentinio valdymo kriterijų pritaikomumą; atrasti ar egzistuoja partinės sistemos rodiklių ryšys su parlamentinio valdymo kriterijų pritaikomumu Lietuvos ir Estijos atvejais; išsiaiškinti daugumos, santykinės daugumos ir rinkimų laimėjimo kriterijų taikomumo ryšį su vyriausybės stabilumu. Tyrimo uždaviniams išspręsti ir darbo tikslą pasiekti padeda lyginamosios analizės, kuri yra naudojama palyginti parlamentinio valdymo formavimą Lietuvoje ir Estijoje... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The topic of Master paper is ‘Parliamentary Government Formation in Lithuania and Estonia: Comparative Analysis‘. When talking about parliamentary government formation, parliamentary doctrine criteria are often mentioned. Three of these principles are discussed here: those of majority, plurality and electoral gain. The more these principles are taken into account the more successful the parliamentary system is assumed to be; or, the more they are carried out, the closer to a situation of optimal parliamentary government the political system gets. The object of research is the implementation of parliamentary doctrine criteria in Lithuania and Estonia parliamentary government formation. The purpose of Master paper is to make a survey of majority, plurality and electoral gain principles implementation in Lithuania and Estonia parliamentary government. Our tasks help us to make the survey: one of task is to compare Lithuania and Estonia parliamentary government according to these parliamentary doctrine criteria. The second one is to find the relationship between party system (which is measured by fragmentation, aggregation, effective party number end electoral volatility) and our mentioned criteria. The third task is to find how majority, plurality and electoral gain principles implementation affect parliamentary government stability in Lithuania and Estonia. We use these methods: comparative analysis, qualitative comparative analysis, descriptive and correlation methods. Our... [to full text]

This inter-disciplinary thesis takes an ethnographic approach to the European Parliament (EP) in order to bring actors, agency, and social context into the study of MEP behaviour. It explores how MEPs practice politics at the everyday level inside the EP. The study approaches politics as an activity performed on a daily basis by individuals within particular social spaces. It takes an individual level and holistic approach to MEP behaviour by exploring their everyday practice of politics inside this institution. The thesis attempts to provide a deeper and more nuanced understanding of MEP behaviour than is currently available in the literature. The thesis primarily responds to gaps in the European Studies literature which mean we lack understanding of how MEPs practice politics within European structures as active, dynamic agents. The research design includes participant observation, elite interviews, and a survey. An inter-disciplinary theoretical framework is applied which combines tools from Goffman (1959), Wenger et al (2002), and Bourdieu (1990, 1977). It sees MEPs as actors accumulating capital and preparing backstage to give credible and thus persuasive performances to different audiences in this transnational political field and its habitus. This research particularly explores the role of the national party delegations and EP groups in MEPs' everyday practice of politics and the local meanings generated around these structures. The key narrative woven throughout this thesis concerns their role from participants' perspective. This thesis finds that these structures play a vital support role and that they can be conceptualised as collegial communities of practice in which members routinely exchange knowledge with trusted colleagues to enable them to cope with the work environment they face and to pursue their chosen interests more successfully.

Né en le 1er février 1848 et mort le 20 juillet 1913, Adhémar Esmein fut l’un des juristes français les plus célèbres de la « Belle Époque ». Nommé à la Faculté de droit de Paris en 1879, le juriste enseignera dans les plus grands établissements d’enseignements français telles l’École pratique des hautes études ou l’École libre des sciences politiques.Historien du droit reconnu, Esmein produira au cours de sa carrière de nombreux travaux en droit romain, en droit canonique et publiera deux éminents ouvrages d’histoire du droit français tous deux destinés principalement aux étudiants.Toutefois, par sa formation, Esmein fut aussi l’un des plus grands constitutionnalistes de son temps. Chargé du cours de droit constitutionnel à la Faculté de droit dès 1890, il s’intéressera à cette discipline nouvelle tout au long de sa vie. Outre d’importants articles, il publiera en 1896 les Éléments de droit constitutionnel qui resteront l’un des « monuments » du droit constitutionnel français. L’ouvrage, réédité à sept reprises jusque dans les années 1920, est généralement présenté comme le premier ouvrage de droit constitutionnel républicain. Son auteur paraît ainsi aux yeux des juristes contemporains comme le promoteur infatigable du régime politique de la IIIe République.Mais à la lecture de l’ensemble de son œuvre constitutionnelle, il apparaît que la pensée de l’auteur se fonde essentiellement sur l’idéologie libérale française la plus typique de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle. Ainsi, on peut affirmer que le républicanisme d’Adhémar Esmein s’explique largement par son libéralisme.Cette étude se propose donc d’étudier la pensée constitutionnelle de l’auteur sous l’angle de la liberté et de montrer que l’ensemble de sa théorie juridique a pour seul objet la protection de la liberté de l’individu. / Born on February 1st, 1848, Adhémar Esmein died on July 20th, 1913. He was recognised as one of the most important French lawyers from the ‘Belle Epoque’. Appointed by the University of Law in Paris in 1879, he taught at the most prestigious French educational institutions such as the École des Hautes Études and the École Libre des Sciences Politiques.Esmein was, above all, a Legal historian, but throughout his career, he also published numerous studies on Roman Law, Canon law and he wrote two prominent books on French legal history.During his academic career, Esmein was also regarded as one of the most important constitutional experts of his epoch. He taught Constitutional Law in Paris from as early as 1890 and was involved in constitutional science throughout his life. In 1896 he published ‘Elements de Droit Constitutionnel’ which is still considered as a fundamental text in the field of French Constitutional Law. The book was re-edited seven times until the 1920s, is generally seen as the first published work on republican constitutional law and gained its author a reputation as a tireless instigator of the Third Republic political regime.An analysis of the full body of his constitutional work leads the reader to the conclusion that it seems that Esmein’s philosophy is mainly based on the French liberal ideology which was dominant in the second half of the 19th century: it can be argued that his republicanism can be exclusively explained by his liberalism.This research project intends to study the constitutional thought of the author in terms of liberty and to show that the sole purpose of his legal theories was the protection of the freedom of the individual.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:34:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Nayana Shirado.pdf: 464151 bytes, checksum: b6159009743afcfe1df72843abb43844 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-12-10 / The question which arises and is usually revisited at all times and at different latitudes is to choose the best formula to provide the political organization of society, based mainly on the principle of separation of executive, legislative and judicial branches. This study will concentrate the focus of discussion in the steering system of "flexible" separation with mutual dependency between the Executive and the Legislative - parliamentary government and "hard" separation with mutual independence between these two powers, according to the mechanical of checks and balances - presidential government. Thinking of types of systems in a responsible and democratic way, that is, how the organs of power articulate tasks among themselves, is to think of political responsibility as a centerpiece of this mechanism. In this context, the scope of this paper is to point out a domestic and comparative study of political accountability relating parliamentary and presidential governments, against the rule of irresponsibility - "The King can do no wrong" - designed in the tradition of absolutist monarchies. The theoretical horizon outlined here moves through the spectrum from positivist responsibility and access the teleological content of this institute, delimiting the focus of responsibility in the subjective actions of the chief of executive and members of the legislative in our legal system and panoramas of British, Spanish, Italian, French and American governments. Despite the dogmatic contribution of le gal texts, we investigate the philosophical content in the idea of political responsibility, conceived as obligation (activity) and of a perspective of the value (outcome). From this scenario, three methodological precautions were taken to clear our path: the first looked after, within the concept of political responsibility, commitment of staff to respond by an act of political behavior or worthlessness in democratic sphere, the second took care to trace the features of cabinet government in the form of monarchy and republic, with the aim of investigating the tools for measuring the political responsibility of the king, the president of the republic and the prime minister and his cabinet, the third guided by researching in the presidential government the political responsibility of the president and the guarantors of this mechanisms, especially the responsibility of the Chief of Executive and members of Legislative, among us. In conclusion, the study refers to the measurement of political responsibility through a legal vehicle for direct control of political activity - the election - which provides enforcing the trust between elected and electorate, so as that through an act of the will of the citizens the choice of political representatives is made. The study indicates that the number of re-election and the renewal of the seats in parliament act as a thermometer to measure the degree of political accountability to the electorate. Admittedly, however, that the effectiveness of this mechanism requires the existence of a public awareness of the political events and able to influence this process. / A questão que se põe e que sói ser revisitada em todos os tempos e em diversas latitudes é a escolha da melhor fórmula política de prover à organização da sociedade, alicerçada, sobretudo, no princípio da separação dos poderes Executivo, Legislativo e Judiciário. Neste estudo concentraremos o foco da discussão nos sistemas de governo de separação flexível com dependência mútua entre Executivo e Legislativo, -- receita de governo parlamentar --, e de separação rígida com independência recíproca entre esses dois poderes, segundo a mecânica de checks and balances -- receita de governo presidencial. Pensar em tipologias de sistemas de governo de fundo democrático, que dizem com o modo como se dispõem os órgãos de poder e como articulam tarefas entre si, é pensar na responsabilidade política como trave mestra desse mecanismo. Nesse contexto, o escopo deste trabalho é pontuar, no cenário doméstico e comparado, o estudo da responsabilização política imbricado aos sistemas de governo parlamentar e presidencial, à revelia do postulado da irresponsabilidade - The King can do no wrong - projetado na tradição política absolutista. O horizonte teórico aqui delineado perpassa pelo espectro positivista da responsabilização política e alcança o conteúdo teleológico do instituto, delimitando o foco subjetivo da responsabilidade na atuação do Chefe do Executivo Federal e dos membros do Legislativo em nosso sistema jurídico e nos panoramas britânico, espanhol, italiano, francês e norte-americano. Não obstante a dogmática aportada com a pesquisa aos textos jurídicos, imprimimos ao trabalho o viés filosófico contido na idéia de responsabilidade política, seja sob o alicerce do dever (atividade), seja sob o prisma do valor (resultado). A partir desse cenário, três precauções metodológicas foram tomadas para aclarar nosso caminho: a primeira cuidou de identificar, no conceito de responsabilidade política, o comprometimento do agente em responder por um ato ou comportamento político desvalorado na esfera democrática; a segunda cuidou de traçar as características do governo de Gabinete sob a forma de monarquia e de república, com o fito de investigar-lhes os instrumentos de aferição da responsabilidade política do rei, do Presidente da República e do Primeiro-Ministro e seu Gabinete; a terceira pautou pela investigação do sistema de governo presidencial no que tange à responsabilidade do Presidente da República e aos mecanismos garantidores dessa responsabilização, com destaque para a responsabilidade do Chefe do Executivo e dos membros do Legislativo, entre nós. Em conclusão, o estudo remete à aferição da responsabilidade política por meio de um mecanismo jurídico de controle externo direto da atividade política -- a eleição -- que dá liga à relação de confiança entre governante e governados, na medida em que por meio de um ato de vontade dos cidadãos se faz a escolha dos representantes políticos. O estudo aponta que o número de reeleições e a taxa de renovação das cadeiras no Parlamento se traduzem num termômetro para aferição do grau de responsabilização política perante o corpo eleitoral. É certo, porém que a eficácia desse mecanismo requer a existência de um público atento aos acontecimentos políticos e capaz de influir nesse processo.

Literature, particularly institutional approaches, emphasizes that parliamentary systems like Canada have avoided controversial morality policy issues including - and perhaps especially - abortion. This, however, fails to account for historical and contemporary developments in Canadian abortion policy and politics at the federal level. More specifically, it fails to adequately conceptualize how governments engage with abortion in practice, such as with the introduction of the omnibus bills in the 1960s and C-43 in 1989, as well as the increasing use of abortion as a political weapon in election campaigns and party politics. Using framing theory and the concepts of politicisation and depoliticisation, this dissertation fills this gap by unpacking how Canada’s federal governments have managed abortion policy and politics from 1966 to 2019, both in discourse and in concrete actions in parliament. More precisely, the federal government's evolving discourses (stories) and actions on the abortion issue were examined through sources that span the 1960s up to 2019, including parliamentary transcripts (Hansard), parliamentary committee transcripts (Evidence) and reports, cabinet documents, and interviews. This dissertation presents an original typology to facilitate a more dynamic understanding of (de)politicisation. It categorizes politicising and depoliticising movements according to how actors use the dimensions of time, space, and capacity to delay, defer and establish limits to their agency in depoliticising procedural action or discourse, or to emphasize an issue on the agenda, claim jurisdiction or responsibility, and establish authority and capability in politicising procedural action or discourse. This yields a more dynamic understanding of how governments have managed the abortion issue over time, demonstrating how governments and their representatives have used - often simultaneously - both politicising and depoliticising actions and discourses. This management, which may be intended to dampen controversy, can also result in uneasy and even contradictory discourses and actions that may generate new sources of conflict. Capturing this dynamism affirms that governments do not simply "avoid" or "engage" with abortion, but that their positions are unsteady and often contradictory, moving back-and-forth - often simultaneously - in their efforts to manage the issue. Using this typology, this dissertation maps out the evolving discourses and approaches through which the federal government approached abortion over time. It argues that, through the 1960s to 1980s, the government approached abortion as a policy problem that required a legislative solution. Beginning in the 1990s and becoming more prominent in the 2000 election and thereafter, the government began using abortion as a political weapon, which served to demarcate Liberal Party values against conservative parties, and vice versa. This dissertation contributes by expanding (de)politicisation theory through its typology, creating a means to analyse the complex and interactive relationship between (de)politicisation, as well as contributing a Canadian case study to the primarily British and Eurocentric depoliticisation literature. This dissertation also bridges the gap between morality policy literature and (de)politicisation, which may be fruitful for additional study into how political actors manage morality policy issues. Empirically, this dissertation offers a comprehensive history of Canada's federal policy and politics of abortion over the past half century, documenting the significant shifts in the discourses and approaches of federal governments on this contentious issue.

La présente recherche se propose d'analyser et de comparer les articulations juridiques et politiques réalisées entre le système du gouvernement responsable et la fonction de chef de l'état dans deux républiques européennes très peu étudiées en France, la Grèce et l’Irlande. Il s'agit de tenter d'apporter une contribution à la théorie générale et à la pratique des régimes politiques de l’Europe contemporaine, en plaçant l'attention sur une problématique constitutionnelle majeure dans les républiques parlementaires mais relativement négligée. Malgré la primauté incontestable du gouvernement majoritaire, il n'en reste pas moins qu'il laisse subsister, dans les régimes républicains, des virtualités dualistes longtemps en sommeil, mais que des évolutions récentes paraissent vouloir réveiller ou au moins remettre en question dans certains pays. En d'autres termes, la fonction présidentielle, qui semblait condamnée à une inéluctable neutralisation dans les systèmes dominés par le premier ministre, tend à (re)trouver une vocation sinon gouvernementale, du moins centrale. Par-delà leurs différences structurelles, culturelles et politiques initiales, les constitutions grecque de 1975 (révisée de façon significative en 1986) et irlandaise de 1937 offrent deux exemples permettant de tester l'hypothèse retenue. / The present thesis proposes an analysis on comparative basis of the legal and political articulations that take place between the system of the responsible government and the presidential function in these two parliamentary democracies, not thoroughly studied in France. The aim of this research is a contribution to the general theory and practice of the political systems in modern Europe, stressing out aspects of an important constitutional topic for parliamentary republics which is still relatively neglected. Although the supremacy of the majoritarian government is not put into question, it can be still claimed that within the republican political systems, certain dualist implications, that remained for long inactive, tend to be reactivated again in some countries by recent events. In other words, the presidential function that seemed to be condemned to an inescapable neutralisation within the systems dominated by the political figure of the Prime minister tends to find once again a reason of being, if not governmental, at least central. Beyond their initial structural, cultural and political differences, the Greek Constitution of 1975 (revised significantly in 1986) and the Irish Constitution of 1937 offer two fruitful examples of the constitutional dynamics that could test the above-mentioned assumption.

Isaiah Berlin pensait que la démocratie libérale se fonde sur le pluralisme radical. Érigeant le « scepticisme » en « valeur éternelle », il définissait le libéralisme comme le fait d'accepter les opinions divergentes et « d'admettre que ce sont peut-être vos adversaires qui ont raison ». Dans toute démocratie libérale, ce scepticisme se traduit entre autre par l'existence d'une opposition parlementaire. Au début du siècle dernier, Fahlbeck expliquait que « l'élément permanent » du parlementarisme, « c'est l'antagonisme entre le parti de gouvernement et de l'opposition ». Le juriste Adolf Arndt définissait la démocratie comme « un État avec opposition » : « le rang accordé à l'opposition détermine, dans une démocratie, le rang du parlement ». Alors qu'elle a été reconnue tôt dans les pays anglo-saxons, sur le continent l'opposition est longtemps restée ignorée du droit. C'est pourquoi il convient de voir comment la France et l'Allemagne, deux systèmes continentaux suffisamment proches pour être comparés mais simultanément différents, ont abordé le problème. Si dans un cas comme dans l'autre l'opposition parlementaire est « reconnue », elle ne l'est qu'« imparfaitement ». Dans quelle mesure le droit peut-il encadrer et institutionnaliser l'opposition parlementaire, fruit de contingences politiques ? Afin qu'elle remplisse efficacement ses missions de tribune, de contrôle et de contre-pouvoir, le droit peut-il contraindre l'opposition ? L'opposition parlementaire exerce-t-elle les mêmes fonctions selon que l'on se trouve de ce côté-ci ou de ce côté-là du Rhin ? Par quels canaux ces fonctions tendent-elles, le cas échéant, à être remplies ? / Parliamentary opposition is certainly an evidence of parliamentarism, but it is not easily defined because of its extreme institutional and behavioural variability, to such an extent that constitutional law fails to be realized. This opposition is partially unwritten as its foundation and practice have preceded its the official recognition by strict law. But, by definition, formal law cannot cover all the oppositional phenomenon’s configuration possibilities, as proven by the importance of conventions beyond written law. Despite everything, its institutionalization was finally required. The vocation of constitutional law is indeed to fix fulcrums for political game, but the question of the juridicity of such a phenomenon must be dealt with. The aim of this work consists of underlining the delicate connection between constitutional law and the parliamentary opposition in Germany and France. If law struggles (imperfectly) to capture it, then in return the opposition mobilizes the juridical instruments that are placed at its disposition. However, this relationship is ambiguous, since constitutional law does not limit itself to writing and because some determinant variables have influenced the implementation of juridical texts. Thus the “performance” of the oppositional phenomenon is not assured, even if it was recognized by the law. The examination of the legal significance of the opposing minority tends to reveal the intrinsic tensions of constitutional law and its political character. Far from being purely static, normativy seems to conceal a certain dynamic.Keywords : parliamentary opposition, system of parliamentary government, parliamentarism, constitutional law, parliamentary law, political law, constitutional order.