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Brexit a Westminster
Full text linkL'articolo esamina le implicazioni del processo di Brexit sul sistema partitico e sul rapporto tra governo e parlamento a Westminster. In particolare, il focus analitico sul periodo 2017-19 consente di verificare come i principali partiti abbiano riassorbito la sfida della Brexit in modo asimmetrico. Dopo mesi di serrato confronto in parlamento durante il governo May, con Johnson i conservatori sono tornati in grado di recuperare il controllo sul governo che è tradizionalmente tipico del modello Westminster, anche grazie al decisivo supporto del sistema elettorale plurality. In questa situazione, il partito laburista appare in difficoltà, dopo aver perso ben quattro elezioni consecutive
The Political Groups as Organisations: The Institutionalisation of Transnational Party Politics
Full text linkThe chapter investigates the process of institutionalisation of the two major political groups in the European Parliament, the Group of the European People’s Party (EPP) and the Socialists and Democrats (S&D). It argues that the organisational development of the groups has been triggered by external events, such as the introduction of direct elections, the mega-enlargement towards Central and Eastern Europe and the legislative empowerment of the EP. Based on a wealth of empirical material—from documents collected in the party archives to original interviews with senior administrators of the groups—it shows that, over time, they have become both more complex and differentiated, and more autonomous from the national member parties. Yet, the latter are still in control of the selection process of members and continue to play an important, but often overlooked, role within the group organisations
Procedural Battles on Sovereignty: Interpreting the Rules in the UK House of Commons
No full textBritish membership in the European Union has been marked by bitter conflicts over the meaning of sovereignty. Traditionally, the key conflict was between national and supranational sovereignty. More recently, however, conflicts on sovereignty have played out domestically, setting “People” vs “Parliament”, “Whitehall” vs “Westminster” or “London” vs “Holyrood”. Against this background, this chapter aims to analytically chart how the different conflicts on sovereignty have played out during the Brexit period. How did different visions of sovereignty clash in procedural debates? Empirically, the chapter presents an in-depth, qualitative analysis of the parliamentary debates in the House of Commons preceding key votes on Brexit-related decisions. The analysis shows that the dominant conflict between popular and parliamentary sovereignty, which was particularly divisive within the governing Conservative party, shaped the debate on the interpretation of the rules, but it overlapped with other pre-existing tensions, providing a more variegated map of positions
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