THE PARLIAMENT AND TIME: BETWEEN DURATION AND INSTANT. COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES: FRANCE, BELGIUM, GERMANY,ITALY, UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN UNION ; El Parlamento y el tiempo: entre duración e instante. Perspectivas comparadas: Francia, Bélgica, Alemania, Italia, Reino Unido y Unión Europea

Contemporary democracies are going through a crisis not only political but a temporal crisis. The Parliament appears at the center of the contradictions produced by a society in which velocity and the need for efficiency rule, in a world every time more complex and globalized. The Parliament is limited in time according to a special rhythm and logics, according with its institutional, normative, political and human identity. Its three classical functions (legislate, control the government and represent) are impacted by time and take part in the production of a special time, between social time... Mehr ...