ABSTRACT

The article introduces the special issue on ‘Administering Representative Democracy. The European Experience of Parliamentary Administrations in Comparative Perspective’, explaining how it seeks to make a major addition to the study of parliaments as well as of public administration. It specifically aims at demonstrating that parliamentary bureaucracies are ‘silent’ organisations playing a fundamentally serving function, and yet they offer a crucial contribution to the well-functioning of representative assemblies. It explores the distinctive nature of this subject matter in Europe, and in this way ties into the wider debates about the functioning of representative democracy.

摘要

文章介绍了“管理代议制民主”的特刊。《比较视角下议会管理的欧洲经验》，解释了它如何寻求对议会和公共行政研究的重要补充。它特别旨在证明议会官僚机构是发挥根本服务功能的“沉默”组织，但它们为代表议会的良好运作做出了重要贡献。它探讨了这一主题在欧洲的独特性质，并以这种方式与关于代议制民主运作的更广泛的辩论联系起来。