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The impact of political steering on the legislative process
Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2014.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/40482 The impact of political steering on the legislative process Botha, C.J. (Christo J.) none Kock, Margaretha Johanna Legislative process Political Steering Impact of political steering UCTD Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2014. Section 43 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 allocates the national legislative authority to Parliament. The Constitutional Court acknowledged in the Certification of the Constitution of the RSA, 1996 judgment that the South African application of the doctrine will be unique, because there is “no universal model of the separation of powers”. Each branch of government has a different role to play during the legislative process. Political steering can be defined as “the intentional intervention of political actors in legal subsystems including the legislative system”. Executive political steering can be a useful tool for cooperation, but when taken too far, could infringe on the doctrine of the separation of power. From the case studies, it was evident that executive political steering can be a twoedged sword. On face value, it may seem as if the executive is intervening, albeit by using the departmental experts and specialists, to ensure that their vision for legislation remains largely intact. When Bills are accepted “as is” from the Executive, and without substantially interrogating each proposal, the Portfolio Committees and Parliament are not exercising their authority to the fullest extent. However, it is accepted that there is an acute shortage of legislative drafters, and that national departments employ content specialists. Parliamentarians cannot be specialists in all the fields that they have to legislate on, and it is not cost-effective to replicate the national department’s structures in Parliament to provide such expertise to the members. gm2014 Public Law unrestricted 2014-07-01T13:30:19Z 2014-07-01T13:30:19Z 2014-04-09 2014 Dissertation Kock, MJ 2014, The impact of political steering on the legislative process, LLM Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/40482> E14/4/241/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/40482 en © 2013 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Legislative process Political Steering Impact of political steering UCTD The impact of political steering on the legislative process |
| title | The impact of political steering on the legislative process |
| title_full | The impact of political steering on the legislative process |
| title_fullStr | The impact of political steering on the legislative process |
| title_full_unstemmed | The impact of political steering on the legislative process |
| title_short | The impact of political steering on the legislative process |
| title_sort | impact of political steering on the legislative process |
| topic | Legislative process Political Steering Impact of political steering UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/40482 |