Commissions of Inquiry in Germany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3407167 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fritz Morstein Marx (Harvard University Press, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1936 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1134-1143 |
| Publication date | 1936-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1948294 |
| OpenAlex | W2318453223 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
Inquiries are ventures into the unknown. As instrumentalities of government, officially organized investigations are a relatively recent addition to the mechanism of politics. Leaving aside regular agencies of criminal procedure such as the grand jury, one may say that the emergence of investigating committees is closely connected with the growth of representative government. Parliamentary inquiries have come to be regarded as essential implements of legislative control over the executive branch. The present brief survey of German experience undertakes to show the potentialities and limitations of a different type of officially organized investigation: the executive inquiry
Aside · Executive branch · Geography · German · Government (linguistics · Jury · Legislature · Political science · Politics · Law · Public Administration
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2022 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |