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Het verlies van het machtspotentieel van een zwak parlement

Onderzoek aan de hand van de Belgische afgevaardigden in het Europees Parlement (1952-1979)

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Wilfried De Wachter and Lieven De Winter, "Het verlies van het machtspotentieel van een zwak parlement", Res Publica, 1, (1979):115-125

    The «law of weak parliaments» states that parliaments with small competences only attract weak candidates, which in turn weakens the parliament even more. Research concerning the Belgian delegates to the European Parliament from 1952 to 1979, confirmed this law, but also qualified it by showing that the downward trend can be crosscut when the parliament gains importance as an institutional platform for a social movement, in this case for the European integration.

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