On the Juridification of Parliamentary Practice and Procedures

What is it about?

Maintenance and reform of parliamentary law increasingly focus on legal norms and the language of courts. This can be a means to safeguard parliamentary democracy and counter tendencies to weaken democracy and the rule of law. But it includes the risk to turn parliamentary practice into administrative routines. Consequentially, parliamentary procedures and proceedings can be alienated from the public and from politicians who are not able to understand and communicate them anymore.

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