1st Edition

Parliamentary Agency and Regional Integration in Europe and Beyond The Logic of Regional Parliaments

By Bruno Theodoro Luciano Copyright 2022
212 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This comparative book analyses the development of regional integration parliaments in three different continents of the world. It assesses and compares the expansion and current stage of institutional development of three regional assemblies – the European Parliament, the Pan-African Parliament and the Mercosur Parliament for Latin America. Looking in particular at parliamentary agency, it... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Global Regionalism and the Parliamentarisation of Regional Integration

3. Historical Institutionalism, Parliamentary Agency, and Comparative Regionalism

4. Parliamentary Agency Making a Difference: The Institutional Empowerment of the European Parliament

5. When Proactivity Decreases: The Institutional Development of the MERCOSUR Parliament

6. The Limits to Regional Parliamentarisation: Establishing the Pan-African Parliament

7. Parliamentary Agency in Comparative Perspective

8. Conclusions

Biography

Bruno Theodoro Luciano is a Research Fellow at the San Tiago Dantas Graduate Program in International Relations, São Paulo State University, Brazil.