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The failure of national parliaments?
West European Politics, 1995National parliaments are commonly held to have ‘failed’ in their dealings with European institutions and in their impact upon the Community's legislative process. This article provides a ‘revisionist’ analysis to challenge this ‘orthodoxy’. First, national parliaments have provided the legitimating frame within which the development of the European ...
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National Parliaments and the European Union
2019The role and position of national parliaments in European Union (EU) affairs have undergone a long, slow, and sometimes rocky, but overall rather remarkable, development. Long regarded as the victims of the integration process, they have continuously strengthened their institutional prerogatives and have become more actively involved in EU affairs ...
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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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Parliaments 2.0? Digital Media Use by National Parliaments in the EU
2017How do national parliaments use the Internet and digital media tools? Despite a number of studies on the online presence of individual representatives, this question has rarely been asked of parliaments themselves, and comparative analyses are practically nonexistent.
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Abstract The chapter reflects on prospects for further inquiry of the parliamentary model as a global institution. It suggests that polity variations in conceptions of the nation and the state should affect rates over time at which polities adopt parliaments, the rates of parliamentary suspension or dissolution, the autonomy and ...
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National parliaments and the European Union
Managerial Law, 2003States that legislatures act as important debates in the public eye and that few are real bodies for policy making, linking people and the government. Insists, though, that they are, at national and lower level, institutions of importance. Looks at the relationship between the EU and national parliaments.
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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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Euroscepticism in Parliament: A Comparative Analysis of the European and National Parliaments
2008Abstract ‘Euroscepticism ‘ is a relatively new term, although the general attitudes to which it refers—opposition to, or doubts about, the progress of the ‘European project ‘ are as old as the project itself.1 Certainly, one could say that it was ‘Euroscepticism ‘ that led Britain not to join the European Coal and Steel Community and ...
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National Parliaments As Deliberative Bodies
2011According to Blondel (1973, p. 2), ‘Legislatures pose perhaps the most fascinating problem of all structures of government, for they have been and continue to be both the most decried and the most revered, the most hoped for and often the least successful institution in contemporary governments.’ In the contemporary European Union, this statement is ...
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