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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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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 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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The European Parliament, the national parliaments and the EU Conventions
Politique européenne, 2003This paper explores the Convention method along the theoretical concept of deliberative democracy. It argues that the Convention method, in comparison with IGC’s, can be seen as an alternative way for steering system change and fundamental reform of the European Union.
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The inter-parliamentary alliance: how national parliaments empowered the European Parliament
Journal of European Public Policy, 2018National parliaments (NPs) have been generally considered the ‘victims’ of European integration – at least until the 1990s.
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The European Parliament and the National Parliaments as a System
2017The Lisbon Treaty expressly envisages that “National Parliaments contribute actively to the good functioning of the Union” (Art. 12.1).
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2005
Abstract Why have national governments of EU member states created and, over the past fifty years, successively endowed the European Parliament with supervisory, budgetary, and legislative powers? This book presents a three-staged argument to explain how the European Parliament acquired this power ‘trias’.
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Abstract Why have national governments of EU member states created and, over the past fifty years, successively endowed the European Parliament with supervisory, budgetary, and legislative powers? This book presents a three-staged argument to explain how the European Parliament acquired this power ‘trias’.
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