Systemic legislation : by what right are distinctions made?

Pečarič, Mirko (author)

A question on the right to make legislative distinctions is important to determine the essence of legislative content. Starting with Aristotle’s question on capacity development for legislation that rests outside of it, this paper uses systems theory and investigates common principles of complex units to enhance what should be systemic in the laws and to address the right to make distinctions on which rules are based. The paper enumerates basic elements of systems theory that legislators should consider to make legislation adaptable to real-life conditions and their changes. Findings from systems theory put public accountability and integrity of public bodies and employees into a light that illuminates the whole in all its relations with different parts and environments, feedback, self-organisation, emergence and adaptation. These elements form systemic legislation.

• Language: English
• Keywords: systems theory, legislation, complexity, adaptable norms, law, information science
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FU - Faculty of Administration
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: 19 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 6, iss. 1, art. 1837424
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-144790
• UDC: 34
• ISSN on article: 2331-1886
• DOI: 10.1080/23311886.2020.1837424
• COBISS.SI-ID: 33714947
• Publication date in RUL: 13.03.2023

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Cogent social sciences
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• ISSN: 2331-1886
• COBISS.SI-ID: 523039513

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: teorija sistemov, zakonodaja, kompleksnost, prilagodljive norme

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: J5-8238
• Name: Razvoj holističnega modela upravljanja za učinkovito in uspešno slovensko javno upravo