Democracy and Rule of Law: Checks and balances in the Republic of Macedonia-how to make them work?

The idea of this research is point to, via different aspects, the democratic mechanisms and processes (election model, intra-party democracy, the Human Rights Charter, voting mechanisms and political culture) containing weaknesses and prospects for promoting the checks and balances system, in order for the Assembly to supervise the Government.

The purpose of this research is to show how the system of checks and balances works in The Republic of Macedonia by analysing the law adoption process and the way existing mechanisms of checks and balances work in the Assembly in the 2008-2015 period. This study consists of desk research and empirical data research (survey), giving a preview and analysis of the law adoption process and of how the mechanisms for checks and balances work in the Assembly of The Republic of Macedonia.

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