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Interparliamentary coordination in single market policy-making: The EU Services Directive
No full textPractices of Inter-Parliamentary Coordination in International politics. The European Union and Beyond.
No full textParliaments risk becoming the main losers of internationalisation; a process that privileges executives and experts. Still, parliamentarians have developed a range of responses to catch up with international decision-making: they coordinate their actions with other parliamentarians; engage in international parliamentary forums; and some even opt to pursue political careers at the supranational level, such as in the European Parliament. This volume provides a thorough empirical examination of how an internationalising context drives parliamentarians to engage in inter-parliamentary coordination; how it affects their power positions vis-à-vis executive actors; among themselves; and in society in general. Furthermore, building upon these empirical insights, the book assesses whether parliamentary democracy can remain sustainable under these changing conditions. Indeed, if parliaments are, and remain, central to our understanding of modern democracy, it is of crucial importance to track their responses to internationalisation, the fragmentation of political sovereignty, and the proliferation of multilevel politics
Under Pressure!: The Institutional Role Coneptions of Commission Officials in an Era of Politicization
Get PDFHooghe, E.A.E.B. [Promotor]Crum, B.J.J. [Copromotor
Normative Power and Military Means: The evolving character of the EU's international power
Get PDFCrum, B.J.J. [Promotor]Hooghe, E.A.E.B. [Promotor
Parties' Transnational Coordination in the EU after Lisbon: The Greens and Beyond
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Saving the Euro at the cost of democracy?
No full textThis article explores the implications of the financial crisis for the relationship between monetary integration and democratic government in the European Union (EU). As the crisis has exposed the original balance that economic and monetary union (EMU) sought to maintain between monetary integration and policy diversity to be unsustainable, the eurozone is put before the choice of one of three governance models: executive federalism, democratic federalization or EMU dissolution. Notably, these three governance models perfectly illustrate Dani Rodrik's 'trilemma of the world economy', which maintains that of the three goods - economic (and monetary) integration, the nation-state and democratic politics - one will always have to give. In light of this, the article concludes that the present course towards executive federalism can be justified for preventing euro dissolution and recognizing the value of national self-government. Nevertheless, it threatens to come at a democratic price. Hence, it is imperative to consider possible flanking measures that can mitigate this effect. © 2013 The Author(s) JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies © 2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Het democratisch tekort als institutionele uitdaging
Get PDFDe kern van het democratisch tekort van de Europese Unie ligt in het feit dat kiezers niet zien hoe hun gezamenlijke stemmen het verschil maken in het Europese beleid. Dit tekort is hardnekkig omdat de Europese Unie een complex, meerlaags politiek systeem is waarbinnen de nationale staten en identiteiten voortbestaan. Toch zijn er de afgelopen jaren de nodige institutionele hervormingen doorgevoerd die het democratisch tekort stap voor stap hebben verkleind. Een volgende slag kan gemaakt worden door het verbeteren van de afstemming tussen nationale parlementen over hun inbreng in de EU, en het versterken van het Europees Parlement als plek waar publiekelijk verantwoording wordt afgelegd over Europees beleid
Is er een rol voor politieke partijen in de internationale politiek?
No full textWhile ever more political decisions are taken at the international level, political parties have been slow to move beyond the confines of the nation-state. At the same time, parties hardly figure in theories of democratic international governance. These theories rather feature states, social movements, international law and procedural checks and balances as the key international institutions. In contrast, this article underlines that political parties perform a unique role in linking particular interests to the general interest. With regard to the international realm, that role puts parties in a particularly strong position to ensure political accountability, to highlight the political choices involved, and to communicate these to the public at large, and to do so in ways that none of the institutions mentioned can substitute for. Hence, the article calls for a further theorizing of the potential of political parties in the overlapping and interacting political institutions that constitute the emerging global polity
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