Shaping Parliamentary Democracy: Collected Memories from the European Parliament

ISBN-13: 9783030272128 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 159 str.

Alfredo De Feo; Michael Shackleton

Spis treści

CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCING OUR PROJECT

Alfredo De Feo and Michael Shackleton

CHAPTER 2. CHOOSING THE PARLIAMENT

Francis Jacobs

CHAPTER 3. WORKING INSIDE THE PARLIAMENT MACHINE

Gérard Laprat

CHAPTER 4.  LIVING INSIDE THE POLITICAL GROUPS

Gérard Laprat

CHAPTER 5. PLAYING A PART AT MAJOR MOMENTS 

Dietmar Nickel

CHAPTER 6. INFLUENCING AND SHAPING POLICY

Alfredo De Feo

CHAPTER 7. SCRUTINISING AND HOLDING TO ACCOUNT

Michael Shackleton

CHAPTER 8. MAKING A MARK BEYOND THE EU

Dietmar Nickel

CHAPTER 9. COMMUNICATING THE WORK OF THE PARLIAMENT

Alfredo De Feo

CHAPTER 10. KEEPING IN TOUCH WITH NATIONAL SOCIETIES

Francis Jacobs

CHAPTER 11. Looking to the Future

Michael Shackleton

APPENDICES

Chronological glossary

List of the Members of the European Parliament who have contributed to the project

Questionnaire to the Former MEPs

INDEX

O autorze

Alfredo De Feo is a professor at the European College of Parma and Fellow at the European University Institute, Firenze, Italy. He is former Director of the European Parliament and has published widely on EU affairs, including The New Politics of the European Union Budget (with S. Becker and M. Bauer, 2017).

Michael Shackleton is Special Professor in European Institutions at the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands, and former Head of the EP Information Office in London, UK. He has published widely on EU affairs, including co-authoring eight editions of The European Parliament.

Blurb

This book analyses nearly 100 original interviews with Members of the European Parliament from across the European Union who were active between 1979 and 2019. These interviews, preserved in the Historical Archives of the European Union at the European University Institute, capture the memories of the MEPs about their own roles and their assessment of what the parliament achieved in developing a European parliamentary democracy in the forty years following the first direct elections. The book offers a taste of the interviews in ten chapters, each of which corresponds to a specific theme presented in the archive: choosing the parliament, working inside the parliament machine, living inside the political groups, playing a part in major moments, influencing and shaping policy, scrutinizing and holding to account, making a mark beyond the EU, communicating the work of the parliament, keeping in touch with national societies, and looking to the future.

Alfredo De Feo is a professor at the European College of Parma and Fellow at the European University Institute, Firenze, Italy. He is former Director of the European Parliament and has published widely on EU affairs, including The New Politics of the European Union Budget (with S. Becker and M. Bauer, 2017).

Michael Shackleton is Special Professor in European Institutions at the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands, and former Head of the EP Information Office in London, UK. He has published widely on EU affairs, including co-authoring eight editions of The European Parliament.