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Representing Europe's Citizens? - Electoral Institutions and the Failure of Parliamentary Representation (Hardcover)
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Representing Europe's Citizens? - Electoral Institutions and the Failure of Parliamentary Representation (Hardcover)
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The past 15 years have seen declining public support for European
integration, and widespread suggestions that a legitimacy crisis
faces the European Union (EU). Many in the EU have believed that
this problem could be effectively tackled by vesting greater powers
in the European Parliament (EP), the Union's only directly-elected
institution. The central argument of this book is that, while
considerable efforts have been made to increase the status of the
EP, it is in crucial respects a failure as a representative body.
This failure is grounded in the manner in which the parliament is
elected. The electoral systems used for EP elections in many EU
countries are, we argue, actively obstructive of Europe's voters
being represented in the way that they are most likely to respond
positively towards. While the behaviour of EP members is shaped
strongly by the electoral systems under which they are elected
(which vary across the 25 member-states of the EU), the electoral
systems currently in place push most of them to behave in ways
contrary to what citizens desire. Drawing on public opinion data,
surveys of MEPs and considerable qualitative interview evidence, we
show that the failure of parliamentary representation in the EU has
a strong foundation in electoral institutions.
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