Some Features of the Legislative Process in the Parliaments of the Asia-Pacific Region

Abstract

In the article reveals specific features of the legislative process in the parliaments of the Pacific Rim. Russian relations development with these countries causes the need of studying of their legal systems, positive experience of effective regulation of the public relations in legislative activity. The legislative process is one of the main constitutional and legal institutions of the modern state, regardless of its form of government, government, political regime. The law creation process is carefully regulated and strictly formalized. It concerns to both procedure and a form of acts. The legislative process is defined as system of proceedings and actions of which creation of the law is the result. Traditionally, this process is the isolated stage of the legislative initiative, consideration, and adoption of the draft bill chambers of parliament, the promulgation of the law. The comparative and legal analysis of legislative process stages in parliaments of the Pacific Rim countries allows revealing and estimating their difference on subject structure, the contents, procedures, periods and some other essential characteristics. Expansion of political, economic, cultural and other connections between Russia and the Pacific Rim states leads to legal mechanisms, procedural partnership optimization rules creation and development. The conclusions received by authors have undoubted value for efficiency increase of legislative process as studying of its separate features, loan of positive experience taking into account peculiar characteristics of the concrete state can become the major step on the way of legislative activity improvement of parliaments.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n3s6p295