Regional Parliaments: Effective Actors in Eu Policy-Making?

ISBN-13: 9781138542044 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 156 str.

Gabriele Abels; Anna-Lena Hogenauer

Opis

The aim of this book is to analyse to what extent regional parliaments have been able to overcome their resource limitations and to exercise effective parliamentary control over European issues. The chapters were originally published in a special issue of The Journal of Legislative Studies.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.