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The European Parliament in Times of EU Crisis

Author : Olivier Costa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319973913

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The European Parliament in Times of EU Crisis by Olivier Costa Pdf

This book assesses the many changes that have occurred within the European Parliament and in its external relations since the Lisbon treaty (2009) and the last European elections (2014). It is undoubtedly the institution that has evolved the most since the 1950s. Despite the many crises experienced by European integration in the last years, the Parliament is still undergoing important changes in its formal competences, its influence on policy-making, its relations with other EU institutions, its internal organisation and its internal political dynamics. Every contribution deals with the most recent aspects of these evolutions and addresses overlooked topics, providing an overview of the current state of play which challenges the mainstream intergovernmental approach of the EU. This project results from research conducted at the Department of European Political and Governance Studies of the College of Europe. Individual research of several policy analysts of the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) have contributed to this endeavour.

The European Parliament in the Contested Union

Author : Edoardo Bressanelli,Nicola Chelotti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000055986

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The European Parliament in the Contested Union by Edoardo Bressanelli,Nicola Chelotti Pdf

The European Parliament in the Contested Union provides a systematic assessment of the real influence of the European Parliament (EP) in policy-making. Ten years after the coming into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, which significantly empowered Europe’s only directly elected institution, the contributions collected in this volume analyse whether, and under what conditions, the EP has been able to use its new powers and shape decisions. Going beyond formal or normative descriptions of the EP’s powers, this book provides an up-to-date and timely empirical assessment of the role of the EP in the European Union, focusing on key cases such as the reforms of the EU’s economic governance and asylum policy, the Brexit negotiations and the budget. The book challenges and qualifies the conventional view that the EP has become more influential after Lisbon. It shows that the influence of the EP is conditional on the salience of the negotiated policy for the Member States. When EU legislation touches upon ‘core state powers’, as well as when national financial resources are at stake, the role of the EP – notwithstanding its formal powers – is more constrained and its influence more limited. This book provides fresh light on the impact of the EP and its role in a more contested and politicised European Union. Bringing together an international team of top scholars in the field and analysing a wealth of new evidence, The European Parliament in the Contested Union challenges conventional explanations on the role of the EP, tracking down empirically its impact on key policies and processes. It will be of great interest to scholars of the European Union, European politics and policy-making. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Integration.

European Parliament Ascendant

Author : Adrienne Héritier,Katharina L. Meissner,Catherine Moury,Magnus G. Schoeller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030167776

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European Parliament Ascendant by Adrienne Héritier,Katharina L. Meissner,Catherine Moury,Magnus G. Schoeller Pdf

"If one wants to understand why, from its modest beginnings, the European Parliament has become a major player in EU decision-making, look no further than this book. It presents, to date, the theoretically most compelling, methodologically disciplined and empirically richest account of parliamentary self-empowerment over time, across key functions and policy areas. This volume will be a main point of reference for work on the European Parliament, the dynamics of inter-institutional politics, and EU integration more generally for years to come."—Berthold Rittberger, Professor of International Relations, University of Munich, Germany “Anyone interested in the rise of the European Parliament as a significant actor in the EU should read this book. It offers a fascinating insight into the strategies used by the Parliament to achieve its aims and the conditions for its success or failure. It ranges widely across time and policy areas to give a comprehensive analysis of the Parliament’s changing institutional position.”—Michael Shackleton, Professor of European Institutions, Maastricht University, The Netherlands, and former EP official This book analyses the European Parliament’s strategies of self-empowerment over time stretching across cases of new institutional prerogatives as well as substantive policy areas. It considers why and how the Parliament has managed to gain formal and informal powers in this wide variety of cases. The book provides a systematic and comparative analysis of the European Parliament’s formal and informal empowerment in two broad sets of cases: on the one hand, it examines the EP’s empowerment since the Treaty of Rome in three areas that are characteristic of parliamentary democracies, namely legislation, the budget, and the investiture of the executive. On the other hand, it analyses the European Parliament’s role in highly politicised policy areas, namely Economic and Monetary Governance and the shaping of EU trade agreements.

The European Parliament as an Accountability Forum

Author : Adina Akbik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108835756

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The European Parliament as an Accountability Forum by Adina Akbik Pdf

An examination of executive actors' accountability for EU economic decisions in the aftermath of the euro crisis.

The Making of the European Union

Author : Sten Berglund
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1781959005

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The Making of the European Union by Sten Berglund Pdf

The Making of the European Union argues that the process of European integration has drifted into serious crisis, perhaps the most serious since the Danes voted against the Treaty of the European Union in 1992. Analysing the conditions for European integration, this book applies a citizens' or 'bottom-up' perspective on the integration process. The difficulties that the constitutional process has encountered illustrate the relevance of bringing public opinion into the analysis of the prospects for European integration. The book describes and analyses the historical, mental, intellectual , and attitudinal denominators of European integration, denominators that have shaped the processes so far and will continue to do so in the future. The authors apply a broad comparative perspective, where European nation-states constitute the primary units of analysis. The focus is on the foundations of European integration, public views about the EU, including various shades of Euroscepticism, and the long-term prospects of the EU. This book will appeal to a wide audience including scholars and researchers in the social sciences - particularly political science, comparative politics and European studies. The book will also be of great interest to journalists and all those involved in the EU, including policy makers and civil servants throughout the EU itself.

The European Parliament Election of 2019 in East-Central Europe

Author : Vít Hloušek,Petr Kaniok
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030408589

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The European Parliament Election of 2019 in East-Central Europe by Vít Hloušek,Petr Kaniok Pdf

This book provides an analysis of the European Parliament elections 2019 with a focus on East-Central European countries. The authors offer conceptual insights into Euroscepticism and discuss traditionally familiar concepts in a new light, pairing East-Central European Euroscepticism with visions of illiberal democracy, on the one hand, and showing the increasing Europeanisation of Eurosceptic parties in the region, on the other. The book combines a fresh and innovative conceptual treatment with rich and accurate empirical evidence in order to highlight the dynamics of Euroscepticism in "new" EU member states. Students and experts interested in EU politics, within academia and beyond, will find this volume particularly informative.

Lobbying in the European Parliament

Author : Maja Kluger Dionigi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319426884

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Lobbying in the European Parliament by Maja Kluger Dionigi Pdf

This book explains when and how interest groups are influential in the European Parliament, which has become one of the most important lobbying venues in the EU. Yet we know little about the many ways in which interest groups and lobbyists influence parliamentary politics. The author offers insights on four key cases of lobbying, based on the analysis of EU documents, lobbying letters, and 150 interviews. She argues that lobbying success depends on a number of factors, most notably the degree of counter-lobbying, issue salience, and committee receptiveness. These factors are brought together in the framework of “Triple-I” - interests, issues, and institutions – to determine the success or failure of lobbying. This book will be of use to students and scholars interested in EU politics and governance, EU decision-making, and interest group politics, along with policy-makers and practitioners.

The European Rescue of the Nation-state

Author : Alan S. Milward
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 041521629X

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The European Rescue of the Nation-state by Alan S. Milward Pdf

Newly revised and updated, this second edition is the classic economic and political account of the origins of the European Community book offers a challenging interpretation of the history of the western European state and European integration.

Shaping Parliamentary Democracy

Author : Alfredo De Feo,Michael Shackleton
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030272135

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Shaping Parliamentary Democracy by Alfredo De Feo,Michael Shackleton Pdf

This book analyses nearly 100 original interviews with Members of the European Parliament from across the European Union who were active between 1979 and 2019. These interviews, preserved in the Historical Archives of the European Union at the European University Institute, capture the memories of the MEPs about their own roles and their assessment of what the parliament achieved in developing a European parliamentary democracy in the forty years following the first direct elections. The book offers a taste of the interviews in ten chapters, each of which corresponds to a specific theme presented in the archive: choosing the parliament, working inside the parliament machine, living inside the political groups, playing a part in major moments, influencing and shaping policy, scrutinizing and holding to account, making a mark beyond the EU, communicating the work of the parliament, keeping in touch with national societies, and looking to the future.

The European Parliament

Author : Ariadna Ripoll Servent
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137407092

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The European Parliament by Ariadna Ripoll Servent Pdf

This broad-ranging text examines the political dynamic of the European Parliament (EP), showing how the EP is a key component of the political system of the EU. It looks at how, and how effectively, the parliament translates citizen demands into policies, and, in so doing, contributes to wider debates around democracy and legitimacy in the EU.

Assessing the 2019 European Parliament Elections

Author : Sylvia Kritzinger,Carolina Plescia,Kolja Raube,James Wilhelm,Jan Wouters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000057263

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Assessing the 2019 European Parliament Elections by Sylvia Kritzinger,Carolina Plescia,Kolja Raube,James Wilhelm,Jan Wouters Pdf

Informed by and against the backdrop of the 2019 European Parliament (EP) elections, this innovative book provides a critical assessment of where Europe stands in terms of the quest to achieve democratic legitimacy. Since the 2014 EP elections, the European Union (EU) has experienced multiple crises, which arguably have undermined its legitimacy. The 2019 EP elections were hence seen as a crucial moment in the EU’s attempts to show resilience and regain trust. Using political science and legal frames of analysis, Assessing the 2019 European Parliament Elections provides an understanding and assessment of the current politico-legal framework, and its impact on European elections. Furthermore, using original data, it provides a timely examination of public opinion issue priorities and voting behaviour at the 2019 EP elections in eight countries. Given the critical conjuncture that the 2019 EP elections represent, this volume provides a key contribution to understanding both the dynamics surrounding the elections, as well as voters’ responses, and informs debates on European politics, for example, second-order elections, democratic legitimacy and political representation. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of EU politics, public administration, European studies, European law, and sociology, along with practitioners in politics, journalism, and policy analysis.

Organising the European Parliament

Author : Nikoleta Yordanova
Publisher : ECPR Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781907301391

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Organising the European Parliament by Nikoleta Yordanova Pdf

The recent empowerment of the European Parliament makes this a timely study of the impact of its internal organisation on legislative politics, interest representation and democracy within the Union. Using data on all legislators and legislative proposals in the 6th parliamentary term, the book confronts alternative theories of legislative organisation in rigorous statistical analyses supported by rich interview information. The findings indicate that the internal setup and legislative output of the parliamentary committees serve the policy goals of parties in the European Parliament, and in particular the working majority party, rather than special interests or purely informational needs, which the author explains with the formal and informal parliamentary rules. As the committees advance party politics instead of particularistic policies, she concludes that legislating within the committees is positive for democracy in the European Union and raises concerns about the loss in transparency, legitimacy and accountability that the increasingly common fast-track bicameral decision-making outside the committees entails.

The Tainted Source

Author : John Laughland
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780751557701

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The Tainted Source by John Laughland Pdf

An ideology is sweeping Europe and the world which threatens democracy and the rule of law. The post-national ideology, which posits that nation-states are no longer capable of running their own affairs in a modern, interdependent economy, confuses the constitution of a state with the power of its government, and ignores the importance of the sense of community essential to any democratic debate. A rigorous synthesis of historical and philosophical arguments, THE TAINTED SOURCE is a powerful appeal in favour of the constitutional foundations of the liberal order. Post-national structures - multinational companies, 'region-states' and supranational organisations such as the European Union - are corrosive of liberal values, to such an extent that John Laughland makes it devastatingly clear that the post-national ideology formed a crucial core of Nazi economic and political thinking. Like the European ideology of today, it was predicted on dissolving the nation-state and the liberal order.

The European Parliament and Supranational Party System

Author : Amie Kreppel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521000793

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The European Parliament and Supranational Party System by Amie Kreppel Pdf

This book examines the impact of legislative and political authority on the internal development of the European Parliament.

The European Parliament, Second Edition

Author : David Judge,David Earnshaw
Publisher : Palgrave
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-13
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015079207661

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The European Parliament, Second Edition by David Judge,David Earnshaw Pdf

The revised and updated 2nd edition of this broad-ranging text examines the political dynamic of the European Parliament within the EU and sets it in the broader context of comparative legislative analysis. The authors examine its significance in the debates surrounding the democracy, legitimacy and "parliamentarization" of the European Union.