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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Parliamentary Committees

Helle Krunke

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
Article last updated:
July 2016

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 13 January 2025

Subject(s):
Committees — Legislative independence — Legislative procedure — Parliamentary systems

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1. In order to apply a global comparative perspective on ‘parliamentary committees’, a broad definition of the term is needed. From the outset, inspiration can be found in KC Wheare’s classic definition of a committee: The essence of a committee is, surely, that it is a body to which some task has been referred or committed by some other person or body. But that is not all. The notion of a committee carries with it the idea of a body being in some manner or degree responsible or subordinate or answerable in the last resort to the body or person who set it up or...
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