Brouard / Costa / König The Europeanization of Domestic Legislatures

The Empirical Implications of the Delors' Myth in Nine Countries
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4614-1502-2
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 244 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Studies in Public Choice

In ten years 80 per cent of the legislation related to economics, maybe also to taxes and social aff airs, will be of Community origin.” This declaration has been largely quoted, paraphrased and deformed by different authors, creating a persistent myth according to which 80% of the legislative activity of the national legislatures would soon be reduced to the simple transposition of European norms”. This book addresses the topic of the scope and impact of Europeanization on national legislation, as a part of the Europeanization debate which raises normative concerns linked to the “democratic deficit” debate. The state of the art shows that there are many assumptions and claims on how European integration may affect national legislation and, more generally, domestic governance but that there is a lack of solid and comparative data to test them. The aim of the book is to give a solid and comparative insight into Europeanization focusing on effective outcomes in a systematic way. This book analyzes the period 1986-2008 and includes an introduction, a global overview of European legislative activities which set the background for Europeanization of national legislatures, 9 country contributions (8 EU member states + Switzerland) including systematic, comparative and standardized data, tables and figures, and a conclusion with a comparative analysis of the European and domestic reasons for Europeanization.All national contributions conclude that Europeanization of national legislation is much more limited than assumed in the literature and public debate. It is limited to 10 to 30% of laws (depending on the country), far less than the 80% predicted by Jacques Delors and mentioned daily by medias and public opinion leaders to demonstrate EU domination on member states. Beside that general statement, the various chapters propose a deep insight on EU constraint over national legislation,providing much information on the kind of laws and policies that are Europeanized, the evolution of this process through time, the impact of Europeanization on the balance of powers and the relations between majority and opposition at national level, the strategies developed by national institutions in that context, and many other issues, making the book of interest to academics and policy-makers concerned with Europeanization and national legislation.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brouard, Sylvain

Costa, Olivier

König, Thomas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;8
2;Chapter 1: Delors´ Myth: The Scope and Impact of the Europeanization of Law Production;10
2.1;Understanding Europeanization;13
2.2;The Empirical Approach of the Europeanization of Law Production;16
2.3;Aims and Structure of the Book;22
2.4;References;26
3;Chapter 2: EU Legislative Activities and Domestic Politics;29
3.1;EU Legislation over Time;31
3.2;Implementation of Directives;37
3.3;Conclusion;42
3.4;Appendix: Policy fields over time;43
3.5;References;45
4;Chapter 3: Measuring the ``Europeanization´´ of Austrian Law-Making: Legal and Contextual Factors;46
4.1;Introduction;46
4.2;What Legislation Can Tell Us About ``Europeanization´´;46
4.3;The Austrian Legal System and Process;47
4.3.1;Federalism;49
4.3.2;Legal Tradition;50
4.4;The Formal Transposition Process;52
4.5;Measuring Europeanization by the Study of Lawmaking;54
4.6;Measuring Legal Europeanization;55
4.6.1;Manual Coding;55
4.6.2;Automatic Computer-Assisted Coding;56
4.7;Results;57
4.7.1;Europeanization of Laws;57
4.7.2;Europeanization of Law-Making Measured by Keyword Search;59
4.8;Europeanization of Laws by Policy Area;61
4.9;Conclusion;62
4.10;References;63
5;Chapter 4: The Minor Impact of EU on Legislation in Finland;66
5.1;Introduction;66
5.2;The Impact of Europe on Domestic Laws;69
5.3;Empirical Analysis;71
5.4;Discussion;76
5.5;References;78
6;Chapter 5: Are French Laws Written in Brussels? The Limited Europeanization of Law-Making in France and Its Implications;81
6.1;Law-Making, EU Decision-Making, and Parliament Under the Fifth Republic;82
6.2;The Growing but Limited Europeanization of the French Laws..;85
6.2.1;Operational Definitions of the Europeanization of French Laws;86
6.2.1.1;Europeanization as a Reference to the EU: The EU Link;86
6.2.1.2;Europeanization as a Constraint;87
6.2.2;The Scope of the Europeanization of French Laws;88
6.2.3;Dynamics of EU Directives and the Constrained Europeanization of Domestic Laws in France;91
6.3;The Pattern of Europeanization and French Domestic Institutions;93
6.3.1;The Effect of Europeanization on Domestic Institutions: No Double Penalty for the French Parliament;93
6.3.2;Europeanization and the Domestic Political System: Behind the Myth of a European Policy Dictator, the Reality of a New Veto Pl...;95
6.4;Conclusion;97
6.5;References;98
7;Chapter 6: Does Europeanization Change Executive-Parliament Relations? Executive Dominance and Parliamentary Responses in Germ...;100
7.1;Introduction;100
7.2;The German Legislature: Mandatory and Non-Mandatory Domestic Laws;102
7.3;Europeanization of the German legislature: A Cross-Validated Analysis;104
7.4;Consequences for Governmental Agenda-Setting Power and Parliamentary Scrutiny;108
7.5;References;112
8;Chapter 7: Leading Governments and Unwilling Legislators: The European Union and the Italian Law Making (1987-2006);114
8.1;Introduction;114
8.2;The Recent Evolution of Italian Law-Making;117
8.3;The Decrease in the Number of Adopted Laws;118
8.3.1;The Strengthening of the Government´s Law-Making Role;119
8.3.2;The Europeanization of the Italian legislative Output;121
8.3.3;Laws Adopted in Parliament;122
8.3.4;Legislative Decrees;123
8.4;How the Evolution of Italian Law-Making Interacts with European Link;125
8.4.1;Inspecting Data on Legislative Amendments;126
8.4.2;Has Europe Contributed to Strengthen the Italian Government? A Tentative Explanation;128
8.5;Conclusions;133
8.6;References;134
9;Chapter 8: The Europeanization of Domestic Legislation in Luxembourg;136
9.1;Background;137
9.1.1;Luxembourg and the EU;137
9.2;Luxembourg´s Legislative Process;139
9.3;The Europeanization of the Luxembourgish Legislation;141
9.3.1;The Domestic Management of EU Policy;141
9.3.2;The Transposition of EU Law;144
9.3.3;Measuring the Europeanization of Luxembourgish Legislation;146
9.3.3.1;Methods;146
9.3.3.2;Results;148
9.4;Conclusions;152
9.5;References;154
10;Chapter 9: Myths and Milestones: The Europeanization of the Legislative Agenda in the Netherlands;155
10.1;Introduction: Dutch Sensitivity to European Mythology;155
10.2;Law-Making in the Netherlands;157
10.3;Research Focus and Dataset;158
10.4;Patterns of Legislative Activity;160
10.5;European Influence on the Legislative Agenda;163
10.5.1;The Institutional Milestone Effect;164
10.5.2;Policy Topic Variation in Europeanization;165
10.5.3;Complexity and Compulsion;167
10.6;Parliamentary Attention to Europeanized Bills;169
10.7;Conclusion;172
10.8;Appendix 1: Keywords;175
10.9;References;175
11;Chapter 10: The Europeanization of Law-Making Activities in Spain;177
11.1;Introduction;177
11.2;Shrinking the Role of the Spanish Parliament;179
11.3;Methodology and Coding Procedure;182
11.4;The Europeanization of Legislative Activity;185
11.5;Who Benefits from Europeanization?;189
11.6;Conclusions;197
11.7;References;198
12;Chapter 11: So Close, Yet So Far? The EU´s Footprint in Swiss Legislative Production;201
12.1;Introduction;201
12.2;Switzerland and the EU;203
12.2.1;The Swiss ``Third Way´´;203
12.2.2;Direct and Indirect Europeanization;205
12.3;Legislative Production in Switzerland;206
12.3.1;Legislative Proposals;206
12.3.2;Legislative Acts;207
12.4;The EU and Domestic Legislative Production: Previous Assessments;208
12.5;Data and Methods;209
12.6;The EU´s Footprint and the Legislative Process;211
12.6.1;Legislative Proposals;212
12.6.2;Legislative Acts;215
12.6.3;Referenda;218
12.7;Conclusion;220
12.8;Appendix;222
12.9;References;224
13;Chapter 12: Going Beyond: Causes of Europeanization;226
13.1;The Relative Impact of EU Legislative Activities and Legislative Review;228
13.1.1;Policy Growth by EU Legislative Activities;229
13.1.2;Domestic Factors by Coalition Politics;230
13.2;The Area-Specific Europeanization of Domestic Legislation Over Time;232
13.3;Discussion;238
13.4;References;242
14;Index;243