1st Edition
Regional Parliaments Effective Actors in EU Policy-Making?
166 Pages
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Routledge
166 Pages
by
Routledge
166 Pages
by
Routledge
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In an attempt to strengthen the legitimacy of European Union (EU) policy-making, the 2009 Lisbon Treaty strengthened the principle of parliamentary control in EU affairs. This pertains to parliaments at all levels ranging from the regional to the supranational level. This book analyses the potential of regional parliaments – the parliaments closest to the citizens – to engage in EU affairs and to... Read more
1. Regional parliaments in the EU multilevel parliamentary system Peter Bursens & Anna-Lena Högenauer 2. Regional parliamentary empowerment in EU affairs. Building an analytical framework Karolina Borońska-Hryniewiecka 3. Mandating – a likely scrutiny instrument for regional parliaments in EU affairs? Gabriele Abels 4. Regional parliaments questioning EU affairs Anna-Lena Högenauer 5. Spokes in the wheel. European affairs and the parliamentary administration of German Landtage Aron Buzogány & Jens Häsing 6. Belgian regional parliaments and the European Union: an analysis of parliamentary scrutiny in agricultural and environmental policies François Randour & Wouter Wolfs 7. Parliamentary scrutiny as a function of interparliamentary cooperation among subnational parliaments Annegret Eppler & Andreas Maurer 8. Conclusion: regional parliaments – a distinct role in the EU? Anna-Lena Högenauer & Gabriele Abels
Biography
Gabriele Abels is Jean Monnet Chair of Comparative Politics and European Integration at the University of Tübingen, Germany. She is also Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence PRRIDE (Positioning Regions and Regionalism in a Democratic Europe), funded by the Erasmus+ programme.
Anna-Lena Högenauer is Adjoint de Recherche at the University of Luxembourg. She works on European democracy and multi-level governance. Together with her co-authors she has won the 2016 PADEMIA Award for Outstanding Research in the Field of Parliamentary Democracy and the 2016 European Political Science best article award.
