Overview
- Discusses the European Parliament’s strategies of self-empowerment over time, across cases of new institutional prerogatives and in substantive policy areas
- Compiles for the first time an encompassing list of EP strategies and proceeds to theorise and assess the relevant causes of their success and failure
- Analyses a wealth of primary sources and official documents in the form of letters, reports, and internal working documents from the EU
Part of the book series: European Administrative Governance (EAGOV)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theory and Expectations
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The European Parliament’s Institutional Empowerment
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The European Parliament in Substantive Policy Areas
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Comparison and Conclusion
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Keywords
- European Parliament
- empowerment
- informal rules
- rational choice institutionalism
- sociological institutionalism
- strategies
- congruence method
- process-tracing
- arena-linking
- alliance
- legislation
- ordinary legislative procedure
- European Commission
- investiture
- moving first
- Spitzenkandidaten procedure
- expenditure
- revenues
- economic governance
- multilateral surveillance
About this book
—Berthold Rittberger, Professor of International Relations, University of Munich, Germany
“Anyone interested in the rise of the European Parliament as a significant actor in the EU should read this book. It offers a fascinating insight into the strategies used by the Parliament to achieve its aims and the conditions for its success or failure. It ranges widely across time and policy areas to give a comprehensive analysis of the Parliament’s changing institutional position.”
—Michael Shackleton, Professor of European Institutions, Maastricht University, The Netherlands, and former EP official
This book analyses the European Parliament’s strategies of self-empowerment over time stretching across cases of new institutional prerogatives as well as substantive policy areas. It considers why and how the Parliament has managed to gain formal and informal powers in this wide variety of cases. The book provides a systematic and comparative analysis of the European Parliament’s formal and informal empowerment in two broad sets of cases: on the one hand, it examines the EP’s empowerment since the Treaty of Rome in three areas that are characteristic of parliamentary democracies, namely legislation, the budget, and the investiture of the executive. On the other hand, it analyses the European Parliament’s role in highly politicised policy areas,namely Economic and Monetary Governance and the shaping of EU trade agreements.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Katharina L. Meissner is an assistant professor at the Centre for European Integration Research (EIF), Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Austria. Her research interests include European Union Foreign Policy, International Trade and Security Relations, International Political Economy and Regional Integration.
Catherine Moury is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Studies, at the New University of Lisbon, Portugal. Her current research is focused on Comparative Politics and EU studies.
Magnus G. Schoeller is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for European Integration Research (EIF), Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Austria. His work focuses on European politics, EU economic and monetary policy, and political leadership.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: European Parliament Ascendant
Book Subtitle: Parliamentary Strategies of Self-Empowerment in the EU
Authors: Adrienne Héritier, Katharina L. Meissner, Catherine Moury, Magnus G. Schoeller
Series Title: European Administrative Governance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16777-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16776-9Published: 19 June 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16779-0Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-16777-6Published: 08 June 2019
Series ISSN: 2524-7263
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7271
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 201
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: European Union Politics, Governance and Government, Legislative and Executive Politics, International Organization, Economic Policy, European Economics