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Legislative Committees in Polish Lawmaking

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Vincent C. Chrypinski
Vincent C. Chrypinski*
Affiliation:
University of Windsor, Ontario
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In recent years Poland's political life has produced a genuine and interesting revival of the Polish parliament, the Seym. It has been especially significant in the area of legislative committees, which not only grew in number but enlarged their sphere of activities and became more independent. The development had its sources in the “thaw” that followed the death of Stalin in 1953 and culminated in Poland in the so-called “October Revolt” of 1956.

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Slavic Review , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , June 1966 , pp. 247 - 258
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1966

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1 For more information see my “Poland's Parliamentary Committees,” East Europe, No. 1 1965 PP. 17-24-

2 Between 1952 and 1956 this collective head of state issued no fewer than 155 decrees. In the same period the Seym passed only 43 statutes.

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15 Incorporated into the statute of March 28, 1958; ibid., No. 18, 1958, item 76.

16 Later to become the statute of June 14, i960; ibid., No. 30, i960, item 168.

17 Later to become the statute of December 21, 1958; ibid., No. 77, 1958, item 398.

18 Later to become the statute of November 16, i960; ibid., No. 51, i960, item 300.

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