Regional Accountability And Executive Power In Europe

Author : Marcel Morabito,Guillaume Tusseau
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781040014622

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Regional Accountability and Executive Power in Europe by Marcel Morabito,Guillaume Tusseau Pdf

This book discusses the major issues currently affecting the accountability of executive power in Europe. The work is divided into three parts. The first examines the territorial dimension including unitary, regional and federal. It discusses how territorial actors participate in strengthening or weakening the implementation of accountability of executive power in modern democratic States. The second part explores the links between national traditions and European accountability of executive power to establish a common European culture. The third and final part focuses on how to build a truly multidisciplinary approach to accountability of executive power and draws on legal, historical and political approaches. The volume will be an invaluable resource for researchers, academics and policy-makers in constitutional law and politics, public law, comparative law, legal history and government.

Author : Marcel Morabito,Guillaume Tusseau
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000898989

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Comparative Executive Power in Europe by Marcel Morabito,Guillaume Tusseau Pdf

This book provides an up-to-date interdisciplinary assessment of the accountability of executive power in different European States and at the European Union level. From a legal perspective, it wonders to what extent the forms of responsibility and accountability of executive power have evolved in terms of legal technique or framework. From a historical perspective, it looks at the evolution of responsibility paradigms. From a political science perspective, it examines responsibility and the expectations of European democracies in terms of authority and efficiency. The volume also has a quantitative aspect identifying, gathering and analysing statistical material on responsibility and accountability in current political regimes. The book will be a valuable resource for researchers, academics, and policy-makers in constitutional law and politics, public law, comparative law, comparative politics, legal history and government.

Author : Sverker Gustavsson,Christer Karlsson,Thomas Persson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135220587

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The Illusion of Accountability in the European Union by Sverker Gustavsson,Christer Karlsson,Thomas Persson Pdf

This book examines accountability in the EU from different perspectives and considers whether EU citizens have real opportunities for holding decision-makers accountable. This book critically analyses five arguments which claim there are sufficient means for holding decision-makers to account in the Union. The main conclusion is that the current institutional set-up and practice of decision-making in the EU is one that merely creates an illusion of accountability. Using a strict framework focusing on the difference between formal mechanisms and actual opportunities for accountability, this highly coherent volume will be of interest to students and scholars of European politics, especially those interested in the democratic foundations of the European political system. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9780415480994_oachapter1.pdf

Author : Michael Oneill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317873655

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Devolution and British Politics by Michael Oneill Pdf

Devolution has transformed the British Polity in the last decade. Taking this profound change as its theme, Devolution and British Politics is an up-to date, comprehensive and effective review of the origins and development of the devolution process.Devolution in British Politics offers a de-centralised assessment of British politics and encourages critical thinking regarding contemporary political theory.

Author : Sverker Gustavsson,Christer Karlsson,Thomas Persson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135220594

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The Illusion of Accountability in the European Union by Sverker Gustavsson,Christer Karlsson,Thomas Persson Pdf

This book examines accountability in the EU from different perspectives and considers whether EU citizens have real opportunities for holding decision-makers accountable. This book critically analyses five arguments which claim there are sufficient means for holding decision-makers to account in the Union. The main conclusion is that the current institutional set-up and practice of decision-making in the EU is one that merely creates an illusion of accountability. Using a strict framework focusing on the difference between formal mechanisms and actual opportunities for accountability, this highly coherent volume will be of interest to students and scholars of European politics, especially those interested in the democratic foundations of the European political system. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Federico Fabbrini
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191065941

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Economic Governance in Europe by Federico Fabbrini Pdf

The Euro-Crisis and the legal and institutional responses to it have had important constitutional implications on the architecture of the European Union (EU). Going beyond the existing literature, Federico Fabbrini's book takes a broad look and examines how the crisis and its aftermath have changed relations of power in the EU, disaggregating three different dimensions: (1) the vertical relations of power between the member states and the EU institutions, (2) the relations of power between the political branches and the courts, and (3) the horizontal relations of power between the EU member states themselves. The first part of the book argues that, in the aftermath of the Euro-crisis, power has been shifting along each of these axes in paradoxical ways. In particular, through a comparison of the United States, Fabbrini reveals that the EU is nowadays characterized by a high degree of centralization in budgetary affairs, an unprecedented level of judicialization of economic questions, and a growing imbalance between the member states in the governance of fiscal matters. As the book makes clear, however, each of these dynamics is a cause for concern - as it calls into question important constitutional values for the EU, such as the autonomy of the member states in taking decision about taxing and spending, the preeminence of the political process in settling economic matters, and the balance between state power and state equality. The second part of the book, therefore, devises possible options for future legal and institutional developments in the EU which may revert these paradoxical trends. In particular, Fabbrini considers the ideas of raising a fiscal capacitiy, restoring the centrality of the EU legislative process, and reforming the EU executive power, and discusses the challenges that accompany any further step towards a deeper Economic and Monetary Union.

Author : Diane Fromage,Anna Herranz-Surrallés
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509930029

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Executive-legislative (Im)balance in the European Union by Diane Fromage,Anna Herranz-Surrallés Pdf

Ten years after the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, has executive predominance in EU-related matters disappeared? How have executive-legislative relations in the EU evolved over a crisis-ridden decade, from the financial and migration crises, to Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic? The Lisbon Treaty could be expected to lead to the re-balancing of powers in favour of parliaments, for it significantly enhanced the roles of both the European Parliament and national parliaments. A decade later the contributions to this edited volume examine – for the first time in such an extensive breadth and from a multi-level and cross-policy perspective – whether this has actually materialised. They highlight that diverging tendencies may be observed, and that important variations over time have occurred, depending particularly on the occurrence of crises. As stated in the fascinating epilogue by Peter Lindseth (University of Connecticut School of Law), this is an 'admirably coherent collective volume, whose contributions provide an excellent overview of key aspects of executive-legislative relations in the European system since the Treaty of Lisbon'. This edited volume will hence be of interest to both academics and practitioners interested in future reforms designed at the European and national levels to improve the EU's democratic quality.

Author : Deirdre Curtin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199264087

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Executive Power of the European Union by Deirdre Curtin Pdf

The picture of Brussels-based bureaucrats exercising arbitrary executive powers is one of the favourite images conjured by Eurosceptics across the political spectrum. This book offers a richer understanding of the nature of the EU's powers, how they relate to national governments, and how they are controlled.

Author : Tanja A. Börzel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521008603

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States and Regions in the European Union by Tanja A. Börzel Pdf

This book analyses the impact of Europeanization on domestic politics and the relationship between states and regions.

Author : Mark Bovens,Deirdre Curtin,Paul 't Hart
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191615283

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The Real World of EU Accountability by Mark Bovens,Deirdre Curtin,Paul 't Hart Pdf

The Real World of EU Accountability reports the findings of a major empirical study into patterns and practices of accountability in European governance. The product of a 4-year, path-breaking project, this book assesses to what extent and how the people that populate the key arenas where European public policy is made or implemented are held accountable. Using a systematic analytical framework, it examines not just the formal accountability arrangements but also documents and compares how these operate in practice. In doing so, it provides a unique, empirically grounded contribution to the pivotal but often remarkably fact-free debate about democracy and accountability in European governance. With four empirical chapters covering the Commission and its agencies, the European Council, and Comitology committees, it shows that a web of formal accountability arrangements has been woven around most of them, but that the extent to which the relevant accountability forums actually use the oversight possibilities offered to them varies markedly: some forums lack the institutional resources, others the willingness. But in those cases where both are on the increase, as in the European Parliament's efforts vis a vis the European Commission, fundamentally healthy accountability relationships are developing. Although ex-post accountability is only part of the larger equation determining the democratic quality of European governance, this study suggests that at least in this area, the EU is slowly but surely reducing its 'democratic deficit'.

Author : Michel R. Gueldry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001-05-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313002694

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France and European Integration by Michel R. Gueldry Pdf

Gueldry analyzes the substantive transformations brought upon the French state by European integration through an incremental and cumulative process generally described as Europeanization. This restructuring is characterized by the erosion of traditional political and economic parameters, the emergence of new means and models of public action, and a general paradigmatic redefinition, including a search for renewed political legitimacy by French elite. Covering the period from 1957 to the present, Gueldry examines how regional integration affects French governmental structures, public policies, political processes, and culture. He emphasizes the post-Single European Act (February 1986) period because of the accelerating momentum of the integration process after this milestone treaty. Students, scholars, and policy makers involved with EU history, institutions, and policies will be particularly interested in the work.

Author : European Committee on Crime Problems,Council of Europe
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9287145164

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Police Powers and Accountability in a Democratic Society by European Committee on Crime Problems,Council of Europe Pdf

The position of the police in both the old democracies and in societies in transition is affected by occasional conflicting legal and professional standards for police work, increasing public expectations, changing crime patterns, stricter standards of effectiveness and accountability and, frequently, inadequacies in the available financial and other resources. This publication contains papers on topics such as: the control of police powers; the prevention of police corruption; powers and accountability of private police; police and the public.

Author : Damien Geradin,University, The Netherlands, Rodolphe Muñoz,Nicolas Petit
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1781950237

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Regulation Through Agencies in the EU by Damien Geradin,University, The Netherlands, Rodolphe Muñoz,Nicolas Petit Pdf

The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of regulatory agencies at both the national and the EU level. This coherent and clearly structured book is the first of its kind to analyse in equal measure, and interdependently, both national regulatory authorities and European agencies. It brings together a select group of highly esteemed contributors - authorities in their fields - to provide a systematic and over-arching view of regulation in the EU. Unlike many of the previous attempts to shed light on this increasingly opaque and complex co-existence of regulatory systems, this book takes a genuinely multi-disciplinary approach with integrated perspectives from law, politics and economics.

Author : Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe,Council of Europe
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9287153817

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The Constitutional Status of the Regions in the Russian Federation and in Other European Countries by Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe,Council of Europe Pdf

Author : M. Donald Hancock,Christopher J. Carman,Marjorie Castle,David P. Conradt,Raffaella Y. Nanetti,Robert Leonardi,William Safran,Stephen White,Michelle Hale Williams,Mary N. Hampton
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 867 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781506399089

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Politics in Europe by M. Donald Hancock,Christopher J. Carman,Marjorie Castle,David P. Conradt,Raffaella Y. Nanetti,Robert Leonardi,William Safran,Stephen White,Michelle Hale Williams,Mary N. Hampton Pdf

Politics in Europe, Seventh Edition introduces students to the power of the European Union as well as seven political systems—the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Russia, Poland—within a common analytical framework that enables students to conduct both single-case and cross-national analysis. Each case addresses the most relevant questions of comparative political analysis: who governs, on behalf of what values, with the collaboration of what groups, in the face of what kind of opposition, and with what socioeconomic and political consequences? Packed with captivating photos and robust country descriptions from regional specialists, the Seventh Edition enables students to think critically about these questions and make meaningful cross-national comparisons.