A typology of advisory bodies in legislatures and research perspectives

Acosta, Matias; Nestore, Matías; Jarquín-Solís, María Estelí; Doubleday, Robert

doi:10.1080/13572334.2022.2070985

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“…The Argentinian Senate established a Future Commission in 2019 but it lasted only a few months. 3 The key criteria for inclusion was that the institution should have direct involvement of MPs and the specific remit of assessing long-term societal challenges. The rationale for these criteria is that through membership or direct involvement, legislators develop stronger 'ownership of foresight work that simultaneously contributes to the scrutiny of foresight carried out by the executive.…”

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“…We also excluded technology assessment (TA) units that advise legislatures about new technologies. 4 The same applies to various legislative research services and advisory bodies: they utilize scientific evidence and even foresight methods and can involve MPs in their work [3,17], but their main function is providing advice and information to legislators. 5 Furthermore, we excluded sub-national parliaments, as there is a huge variation in the competencies and roles of such regional assemblies.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Curtailing political short-termism in legislatures: a trade-off between influence and institutionalization?

Koskimaa,

Raunio

2023

Eur J Futures Res

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Legislatures have recently started to invest in anticipatory governance. Alongside new practices, they have introduced designated future committees and organs that connect MPs to future-regarding visioning and advice. Two decades ago, only Finland had a ‘future committee’, today broadly similar organs exist in 10 countries around the world. While signaling an important attempt to take expert-driven anticipatory governance closer to voters, legislative future organs may become short-lasting or remain politically weak, as their efforts to gain power typically threaten established legislative actors. To examine this emerging tension, we theoretically distinguish the unorthodox methods of future committees from traditional legislative practices and empirically compare the operation of all existing legislative future committees and similar organs. We uncover a considerable similarity between these institutions that mostly operate outside of the ordinary legislative process. To survive, they must add value to MPs without endangering the existing division of power. Finding this balance enhances the consolidation of legislative future organs, but it simultaneously limits their conventional political impact.

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%