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Parliamentary Communication in EU Affairs - Connecting with the Electorate? (Paperback)
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Parliamentary Communication in EU Affairs - Connecting with the Electorate? (Paperback)
Series: Library of Legislative Studies
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Over the last twenty years, the role of national parliaments in EU
affairs has gained considerable academic attention. Much of the
literature, however, has focused on parliamentary scrutiny and
control in EU affairs. What tends to be generally overlooked is
that the parliamentary communication function is at least as
important in EU politics as the control function. Democratic
legitimacy depends on a vibrant public debate on political
solutions and alternatives to allow citizens to make informed
political (electoral) choices and to exercise democratic control.
Within the EU, it is precisely the opacity of policy-making
processes and the lack of public discourse that have been defined
as core problems of democratic legitimacy. Here, parliaments have
the potential to provide an ideal arena for the deliberation of
important European issues and thus to help overcome the
much-lamented distance between European policy processes and the
citizens. Yet, despite parliaments' central relevance for the
legitimacy of European politics, the parliamentary communication
function remains so far under researched. The volume aims at
filling this gap by providing both qualitative and quantitative
comparative data on various communication efforts by national
parliaments. This book was originally published as a special issue
in the Journal of Legislative Studies.
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