Regional Accountability and Executive Power in Europe

ISBN-13: 9781032251004 / Twarda / 2024 / 288 str.

Opis

This book discusses the major issues currently affecting the accountability of executive power in Europe. 

Spis treści

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

O autorze

Marcel Morabito is Professor Emeritus of Legal History at Sciences Po, France.

Guillaume Tusseau is Professor of Public Law at Sciences Po Law School, Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France.