Le Parlement écossais et la démocratie participative
The Scottish Parliament and participative democracyThe Scottish Parliament set up in 1999 was designed to embody a new model of governance. Indeed the Constitutional Steering Group on the Scottish Parliament set up in November 1997 by the then Secretary of State for Scotland and whose remit was to p...
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| description | The Scottish Parliament and participative democracyThe Scottish Parliament set up in 1999 was designed to embody a new model of governance. Indeed the Constitutional Steering Group on the Scottish Parliament set up in November 1997 by the then Secretary of State for Scotland and whose remit was to prepare draft standing orders for the new institution, recommended in its report published in December 1998 that a “participative approach to the development, consideration and scrutiny, of policy and legislation” be adopted by the Scottish Parliament.As the people of Scotland are about to celebrate the tenth anniversary of their new devolved institution, can it be said that the ‘people’s parliament’ has lived up to its name?As a matter of fact, both the engagement of Scotland’s civil society in the constitutional debate since the early 1980s and the principle of popular sovereignty, deemed to be a specificity of Scottish constitutional law contrasting with the English tradition of parliamentary sovereignty, have undoubtedly informed the ethos of the new Parliament.This article will aim at demonstrating that although the new Scottish model of governance remains essentially representative in character, yet it has developed innovative practices and forms of participation to the extent that it is seen as being ahead of its European counterparts in terms of participative democracy, and notably as regards the development of e-democracy. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-23336ef2520a4344a39e52740dce2c0b2025-01-09T12:53:23ZengLaboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)E-REA1638-17182009-07-017110.4000/erea.885Le Parlement écossais et la démocratie participativeAnnie THIECThe Scottish Parliament and participative democracyThe Scottish Parliament set up in 1999 was designed to embody a new model of governance. Indeed the Constitutional Steering Group on the Scottish Parliament set up in November 1997 by the then Secretary of State for Scotland and whose remit was to prepare draft standing orders for the new institution, recommended in its report published in December 1998 that a “participative approach to the development, consideration and scrutiny, of policy and legislation” be adopted by the Scottish Parliament.As the people of Scotland are about to celebrate the tenth anniversary of their new devolved institution, can it be said that the ‘people’s parliament’ has lived up to its name?As a matter of fact, both the engagement of Scotland’s civil society in the constitutional debate since the early 1980s and the principle of popular sovereignty, deemed to be a specificity of Scottish constitutional law contrasting with the English tradition of parliamentary sovereignty, have undoubtedly informed the ethos of the new Parliament.This article will aim at demonstrating that although the new Scottish model of governance remains essentially representative in character, yet it has developed innovative practices and forms of participation to the extent that it is seen as being ahead of its European counterparts in terms of participative democracy, and notably as regards the development of e-democracy.https://journals.openedition.org/erea/885popular sovereigntye-democracyparticipationGovernance |
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| title | Le Parlement écossais et la démocratie participative |
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| title_short | Le Parlement écossais et la démocratie participative |
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| topic | popular sovereignty e-democracy participation Governance |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/erea/885 |
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