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Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2021

Twenty years of attempts at reforming committees - A tale of reforms missing the mark in the French National Assembly

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The French Parliament’s committee system, as it was created by the constitution of the Fifth Republic, was purposely designed to be as weak as can be: a limited number of standing committees, with wide areas of expertise and close to no legislative or oversight power, relegated to producing non-binding opinions on the bills. Yet, as time passed, and never more so than in the past 20 years, several ambitious legal reforms were passed to give more legislative and oversight powers to the committees, and strengthen the National Assembly as a whole. Yet, the National Assembly in 2020 does not appear any stronger, nor any more independent as an institution, than it was 20 years ago. This chapter aims at assessing the obstacles that may have hindered the desired effects of these reforms and identifies both subtle changes – increasing public scrutiny and an augmentation of the importance of the president’s figure for example – as well as unaltered core characteristics of the French institutions and political system, as potential hurdles to the reforming intent.
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hal-03941547 , version 1 (16-01-2023)

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C. Bloquet. Twenty years of attempts at reforming committees - A tale of reforms missing the mark in the French National Assembly. Sven T. Siefken; Hilmar Rommetvedt. Parliamentary Committees in the Policy Process, Routledge, pp.98-115, 2021, 9781003106579. ⟨10.4324/9781003106579⟩. ⟨hal-03941547⟩
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