Budget Amount *help |
¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
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Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In this study, I focused on the parliamentary factions, which are considered as one of the legal entities in a parliamentary cabinet system, and examined whether it is possible to grasp them constitutionally, and if so, what legal characteristics they possess, using a comparative legal approach. In doing so, I referred to the discussions surrounding the legal status of parliamentary factions in Germany, where a parliamentary cabinet system, similar to Japan, has been adopted and where numerous research outcomes regarding factions have been accumulated. As a result of this study, it has been revealed that in contemporary German constitutional studies, there is a groundbreaking theory (by Sven Hoelscheidt), which is widely supported, and according to this theory, factions can be understood as diverged entities of the parliament (distinct from the committees that serve as subordinate bodies of the parliament) based on the constitution.
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