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The European Parliament, Not a Very European Parliament?
Politique européenne, 2003This article distinguishes preference aggregation, identity formation and the deliberation of norms as three functions performed by parliaments in systems of representative government. It argues that analysis of ‘what kind of parliament is the European Parliament (EP) in comparison to others?’ has hitherto focused excessively on preference aggregation ...
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2020
AbstractChapter 8 discusses the European Parliament’s pathway to legitimacy, and its transition from having “no size at all” in Eurozone governance to increasing influence. The chapter begins with an analysis of the EP’s sources of power—which were initially very few, given its marginalization in Eurozone governance—and of its growing throughput ...
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AbstractChapter 8 discusses the European Parliament’s pathway to legitimacy, and its transition from having “no size at all” in Eurozone governance to increasing influence. The chapter begins with an analysis of the EP’s sources of power—which were initially very few, given its marginalization in Eurozone governance—and of its growing throughput ...
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European Parliament and National Parliaments
2020AbstractThe EMU’s legitimacy is precarious. To be precise, it is not the legitimacy of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) as such that is precarious since it is set out in the Treaties but of acts adopted within EMU. Monetary policy acts are adopted by the European Central Bank (ECB) equipped with a Primary law independence guarantee shielding it ...
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Introduction: European Parliament, National Parliaments, and European Integration
1999Abstract The process of European integration has challenged the sovereignty and the legitimizing mechanisms of the nation‐state without compensating with comparable democratic mechanisms at the European level. If the emerging political order is to qualify as democratic, parliaments as representative institutions will have to play a ...
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The European Parliament, National Parliaments, and European Integration
1999Abstract Overarching this book and its companion volume Political Representation and Legitimacy in the European Union (ed. Schmitt and Thomassen) is the theme of exploring political representation in Europe in a truly comparative context.
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1989
Since it was first constituted, as the Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community, the European Parliament — the title it adopted for itself in 1962 — has generally been regarded as a somewhat ineffective institution. It is a reputation which, today at least, is not entirely justified.
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Since it was first constituted, as the Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community, the European Parliament — the title it adopted for itself in 1962 — has generally been regarded as a somewhat ineffective institution. It is a reputation which, today at least, is not entirely justified.
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