NÁRODNÁ RADA SLOVENSKEJ REPUBLIKY V PARLAMENTNEJ FORME VLÁDY

• Authors: Dušan Nikodým

Title variants

EN

National Council of the Slovak Republic in a parliamentary form of government

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The author refers to the development of the political scene since 1989 to these days. Regular rotation of coherent poliltical partes in theNational Council has not been apparent in individual electoral terms; many of them have even shown signs of fragmentation. In the current electoral term the left-wing party is homogenous, while the righ-wing parties are fragmented. The author refers to problems of the electoral sytem, which does not guarantee an adequate representation of candidates from different regions in the electorial district. He recommends considering the adoption of a mixed electoral system or the establishment of the second, regional chamber of parliament. He refers also to the functioning of the political system in democratic foreign countries, taking into account the classification of democratic regimes, which are applied in conditions of competitive democracy or its antipole - consociational democracy. Further, the author addresses the issue of weakness in the legal regulation of referendum in terms of its legal effects, participation of interst groups in the law-making and participation of citizens in elections and makes suggestions for treatment of de lege ferenda.

Keywords

EN

PARLIAMENT; GOVERNMENT; POLITICAL PARTY; ELECTORAL SYSTEM; REFERENDUM; NATIONAL COUNCIL; SLOVAKIA

• Publisher: Institute of State and Law of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Právny obzor. Teoretický časopis pre otázky štátu a práva (Juridical Review. Theoretical journal for the questions of state and law)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 98
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 571 - 589

Contributors

author

Dušan Nikodým

• Ústav štátu a práva SAV, Bratislava, Slovak Republic