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[20-27] What code of conduct should lawmakers abide by

Date : 2020-12-31 item : Research Report 20-27 P.I : Park Sang-hoon

[20-27] What code of conduct should lawmakers abide by

 The purpose of this study is to examine the code of conduct that lawmakers as legislators should adopt. To this end, a comparative analysis of the code of parliamentary conduct in advanced democracies was performed. As seen in the Rules of Decorum and Rules of Decorum & Debate in the House, the code that lawmakers should value in their political actions and language has a long history. The bottom line is that the rules by which they should abide must be enacted by the lawmakers themselves. In other words, parliament is very cautious when it comes to giving the authority to regulate lawmakers' behavior to outsiders. That's why lawmakers have immunity and are not subject to criminal prosecution. There have been numerous efforts among lawmakers to honor self-regulatory principles and to consider a breach of such principles as more serious than breaking the law. This report argues that it is necessary to make efforts to improve the National Assembly Ethics Code, which has only existed formally since it was enacted in 1992, with richer and more specific content.