PARLIAMENTARY LAW AND REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY IN ITALY

PARLIAMENTARY LAW AND REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY IN ITALY - 6 ECTS

The course aims to help understand an articulated and complex reality such as that of the Italian Parliament, whose operating mechanisms are examined in detail. Deepening the knowledge of parliamentary procedures, governed by a series of rules and practices, can help to decipher the internal mechanisms of politics and to better orientate oneself in today's political-institutional affairs.

Frontal lessons. Seminars

The possession of an adequate level of general culture is required for attending a university course of study, with particular regard to Italian public law, Italian and European history, as well as political-institutional and geopolitical current events. Adequate ability to argue one's theses and to express them in the language proper to legal sciences is also required.

Not mandatory, but recommended

The course aims to study the fundamental aspects of parliamentary law (sources; political structure; organizational profiles; fiduciary relationship; steering function; control function; budgetary discipline and relations with the EU) and the uncertain transition towards the standards of democracies. majority parliamentarians with particular reference to parliamentary groups, the role of the Government and the differentiation of bicameralism. The Parliamentary Law Course aims to outline the role of Parliament in the Italian form of government. In particular, through the study of parliamentary regulations the student will be able to interpret the internal mechanisms of politics and parties.

L. Gianniti – N. Lupo, Corso di diritto parlamentare, Bologna, Il Mulino 2021

Oral examination