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The right to oppose the current government is an indispensable element of the pluralist system of liberal democracy. A parliamentary opposition may function in various organisational forms. It comprises political groups and factions which do not participate in the formation of the government, adopt a critical attitude towards the programme of the executive branch, and offer alternative solutions with respect to programmes and the staffi ng of ministerial positions. This study of the three cases of the United Kingdom, Germany and France confirms that, besides the common attribute of representing a political orientation different from that of the current government, an opposition is distinguished by a set of specifi c features. Such features result from the type of a political system, political culture, the structure of a parliament, and effective procedures. In its activities, an opposition uses a collection of positive and negative measures.
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Parlamenty z natury są instytucjami dwoistymi, gdyż łączą społeczeństwo z prawną strukturą władzy państwowej. Analiza właściwości strukturalnych współczesnych legislatyw wskazuje, że szczególnie istotny jest czynnik organizacji wewnętrznej pozwalający wyodrębnić bikameralizm symetryczny. Przypadek Republiki Włoskiej przyciąga badaczy ustrojów politycznych z wielu powodów. Między innymi z tego względu, że obie izby posiadają identyczną pozycję prawnoustrojową, taką samą długość pięcioletniej kadencji oraz dysponują identycznymi kompetencjami. Proporcjonalna ordynacja wyborcza (poza dwoma wyjątkami) gwarantowała, że legislatywa była lustrzanym odbiciem społeczeństwa, umożliwiając spotkanie różnych ideologii, w tym również tych najbardziej radykalnych. Dwuizbowy parlament włoski wykazywał zdolność do pokojowej konfrontacji między dwoma skrajnymi biegunami życia politycznego w warunkach podzielonego politycznie i kulturowo społeczeństwa.
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Parliaments are dual institutions by nature, as they connect society with the legal structure of the state power. An analysis of the structural properties of contemporary legislative bodies indicates the particular importance is the factor of internal organization, which makes it possible to distinguish a symmetrical bicameralism. The case of Italy is attractive for researchers of political systems for many reasons. One of them is a fact, that both chambers hold the identical legal and political positions, have the same five years’ terms of office and identical scopes of authority. The proportional voting system guaranteed (with two exceptions) that the legislative branch was a mirror image of society, allowing the meeting of various ideologies, including the most radical ones. Italy's bicameral parliament manifested its ability to absorb a peaceful confrontation between the opposite poles of the political life in the conditions of a politically and culturally divided society.
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The term “accountability” refers to a manner of assuming responsibility, in particular a relevant verifi - cation of particular actions and processes located in time and assigned to a concrete subject. Usu ally the following two types of accountability are identifi ed: inter-institutional (horizontal) accountability and electoral (vertical) accountability. Accountability applies primarily to the executive branch of government, but it is included in the much wider range of the accountability of the particular institutions of a political system. It constitutes an element of the quality of democracy. There have been oscillations in the level of accountability in the political system of the Polish Third Republic. It was lowered in the years 2007–2015 when symbiosis occurred among the establishment, the state bureaucracy, the business community, and public opinion polling institutions.
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The opposition is an institution of the political regime, whose essential function is to allow alternation of power. According to the political scientist, it is a phenomenon from the sphere of governance, where different imperious and subordinate entities are in a relationship with partially common goals and partly contradictory, but remain always mutually dependent. The importance of the political opposition depends not only on the adopted institutional solutions, but primarily the political culture. Just as every society has the government it deserves, by analogy, the same is also true of the opposition.
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