1st Edition
Regional Accountability and Executive Power in Europe
This book discusses the major issues currently affecting the accountability of executive power in Europe. The work is divided into three parts. The first examines the territorial dimension including unitary, regional and federal. It discusses how territorial actors participate in strengthening or weakening the implementation of accountability of executive power in modern democratic States. The second part explores the links between national traditions and European accountability of executive power to establish a common European culture. The third and final part focuses on how to build a truly multidisciplinary approach to accountability of executive power and draws on legal, historical and political approaches. The volume will be an invaluable resource for researchers, academics and policy-makers in constitutional law and politics, public law, comparative law, legal history and government.
Introduction
Marcel Morabito
Part I: The responsibility of the national Executive power from the point of view of local territories
Section 1: Theoretical Reflections
Chapter 1: A European perspective
Mercedes Bresso
Chapter 2: The responsibility of the national executive power in Germany
Claus Dieter Classen, Aurore Gaillet and Yoan Vilain
Chapter 3: Is calling upon the courts a way to acknowledge the responsibility of the Executive?
Virginie Donier
Section 2: Regional Realities
Chapter 4: The point of view of a state representative
Laurent Carrié
Chapter 5: The point of view of an elected official
André Viola
Conclusion: how do local actors participate in the strengthening or in the weakening of the holding to account of the Executive within modern democratic States?
Stéphane Mouton
Part II: National traditions and European culture
Section 3: What impact do the traditions of the Member States have on the European practice of responsibility?
Chapter 6: Are there common national traditions regarding the responsibility of the executive power?
Luigi Lacchè
Chapter 7: The accountability of the EU Commission as the EU’s Executive
Paolo Ponzano
Chapter 8: Political accountability and role splitting of the Executive in EU Member States
Jacques Ziller
Chapter 9: Political accountability within the European system
Fabienne Peraldi-Leneuf
Section 4: A common culture? National traditions, European challenges
Questionnaire
Julien Padovani and Emilien Quinart
Chapter 10: Parliamentarianism and accountability of the executive power on a European scale: the experience of the European Parliament
Juan Fernando López Aguilar
Chapter 11: The scent of wild animals
Sophie in’t Veld
Conclusion: On political responsibility and political control in the European Union
Jean-Paul Jacqué
Part III: Diversity of legal approaches
Section 5: Democratic perspectives
Chapter 12: The European convergence of the strengthening of the executive power
Hanan Qazbir
Chapter 13: Responsibility, accountability and legitimacy of executives: what role for the people?
Audrey Bachert-Peretti
Section 6: Disciplinary specificities
Chapter 14: Administrative responsibility and responsibility of the Executive
Hafida Belrhali
Chapter 15: Understanding responsibility through the issues of the environment: towards a bilateral conception of responsibility?
Malik Bozzo-Rey
Chapter 16: A perspective on civil responsibility
Jean-Baptiste Donnier
Chapter 17: Responsibility of the Executive: cross-read approaches
Amaia Errecart
Chapter 18: The unique nature of political responsibility
Cécile Guérin-Bargues
Chapter19: Responsibility and sports: some remarks on a particular couple
Clémentine Legendre
Chapter 20: The difficulty of thinking about executive responsibility in a republic: a historical perspective
François Quastana
Chapter 21: Of sheep and straw men: the accountability of the Executive from the perspective of political science
Olivier Rozenberg
Conclusion: For a common concept of ‘responsibility’ from a multidisciplinary perspective
Xavier Magnon
Concluding Remarks: A kaleidoscopic approach to make (necessary) interdisciplinary communication possible
Guillaume Tusseau
Biography
Marcel Morabito is Professor Emeritus of Legal History at Sciences Po, Paris, and member of the Institut Louis Favoreu, Aix-Marseille University, France.
Guillaume Tusseau is Professor of Public Law at Sciences Po Law School, Paris, Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France.
