Parliamentary Administrations in the European Union

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-349-59547-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 161 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 2291 g

Reihe: European Administrative Governance

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the role of parliamentary administrations in the control of European Union policy-making. It questions whether the decision to give parliaments greater powers in the aftermath of the Lisbon Treaty had only the intended effect of political debate on European policies, or whether it has also resulted in the bureaucratisation of parliaments. The authors argue that the challenges of information-management faced by parliaments lead them to delegate an extensive set of tasks to their administrations. They offer a broad empirical picture, analysing the challenges faced by national parliaments and the role and response of their administrations in the case of the European Parliament, national parliaments and regional parliaments. In addition, the book studies the interaction between different administrations and their contribution to interparliamentary cooperation. It presents a new and different perspective on the challenges and dynamics of multi-level parliamentarism.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Högenauer, Anna-Lena

Neuhold, Christine

Christiansen, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Parliamentary Administrations and the Challenge of European Integration
Chapter 1: Conceptualizing the Role of Parliamentary Administrators
Chapter 2: Administrative Players in the European Parliament (with Mathias Dobbels)
Chapter 3: Trans-National Bureaucratic Networks in the EU The Role of Parliamentary Officials in Inter-parliamentary Coordination and Control
Chapter 4: The Administrations of National Parliaments in the EU: a Comparative Perspective and the Scrutiny of EU Affairs
Chapter 5: The Europeanization of National Parliamentary Administrations – Convergence or Divergence?
Chapter 6: New Tasks, Limited Resources: Regional Parliamentary Administrations in EU Affairs
Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Anna-Lena Högenauer is Research Assistant at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Luxembourg. She has published in a range of journals, including West European Politics, the European Political Science Review, Comparative European Politics and Regional and Federal Studies.

Christine Neuhold is Professor within the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS), Maastricht University, the Netherlands. She has published widely on EU integration with a special focus on parliaments, unelected actors and committees.

Thomas Christiansen is Jean Monnet Professor and Co-Director of the Maastricht Centre for European Governance at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. He is co-editor of the Journal of European Integration and co-editor of the European Administration Governance book series at Palgrave Macmillan.