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Constitutional Preferences and Parliamentary Reform - Explaining National Parliaments' Adaptation to European Integration (Hardcover)
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Constitutional Preferences and Parliamentary Reform - Explaining National Parliaments' Adaptation to European Integration (Hardcover)
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This book provides a comprehensive account of national parliaments'
adaptation to European integration. Advancing an explanation based
on political parties' constitutional preferences, the volume
investigates the nature and variation of parliamentary rights in
European Union affairs across countries and levels of governance.
In some member states, parliaments have traditionally been strong
and parties hold intergovernmental visions of European integration.
In these countries, strong parliamentary rights emerge in the
context of parties' efforts to realise their preferred
constitutional design for the European polity. Parliamentary rights
remain weakly developed where federally-oriented parties prevail,
and where parliaments have long been marginal arenas in domestic
politics. Moreover, divergent constitutional preferences underlie
inter-parliamentary disagreement on national parliaments'
collective rights at the European level. Constitutional preferences
are key to understanding why a 'Senate' of national parliaments
never enjoyed support and why the alternatives subsequently put
into place have stayed clear of committing national parliaments to
any common policies. This volume calls into question existing
explanations that focus on strategic partisan incentives arising
from minority and coalition government. It, furthermore rejects the
exclusive attribution of parliamentary 'deficits' to the structural
constraints created by European integration and, instead, restores
a sense of accountability for parliamentary rights to political
parties and their ideas for the European Union's constitutional
design.
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