People And Parliament In The European Union

Author : Jean Blondel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198293089
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People and Parliament in the European Union written by Jean Blondel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The power of the European Parliament has been steadily and visibly increasing, but the already low rate of turnout in European elections has declined. This text analyzes these concepts of applicability at the European level.

Author : Jean F.P. Blondel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People and Parliament in the European Union written by Jean F.P. Blondel and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard S Katz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198296606
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The European Parliament, the National Parliaments, and European Integration written by Richard S Katz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-24 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European integration is progressing at an even more rapid rate. Accompanying this progress is an increasing debate about the institutional shape and legitimacy of this new political order. This debate is driven in part by conflicting values, and in part by uncertainty. This book addresses the question of parliamentary involvement in the emerging European political system by looking at both national and European levels of parliamentary representation. In doing this, it gives greaterattention to the role of national parliaments than is usual in discussions about democracy in the European Union.Based on interviews and surveys among members of parliament at the European level, and in eleven member states, it analyses the role of parliaments and parliamentarians, the linkages between national citizenry and the European level, and the problems and perspectives of institutional change. The book is provides analyses of the views from within concerning European integration and concentrates of three dimensions: the MPs themselves; their embeddedness in the process; and theirperspectives on institutional structures. These views from within offer new insights and answers to institutional problems in the European Union and the so-called democratic deficit.

Author : Francis Jacobs
Publisher : Cartermill Pub.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The European Parliament written by Francis Jacobs and published by Cartermill Pub.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alfredo De Feo
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030272133
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shaping Parliamentary Democracy written by Alfredo De Feo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses nearly 100 original interviews with Members of the European Parliament from across the European Union who were active between 1979 and 2019. These interviews, preserved in the Historical Archives of the European Union at the European University Institute, capture the memories of the MEPs about their own roles and their assessment of what the parliament achieved in developing a European parliamentary democracy in the forty years following the first direct elections. The book offers a taste of the interviews in ten chapters, each of which corresponds to a specific theme presented in the archive: choosing the parliament, working inside the parliament machine, living inside the political groups, playing a part in major moments, influencing and shaping policy, scrutinizing and holding to account, making a mark beyond the EU, communicating the work of the parliament, keeping in touch with national societies, and looking to the future.

Author : Mette Jolly
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199213070
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The European Union and the People written by Mette Jolly and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Author : Mette Elise Jolly
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191526584
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The European Union and the People written by Mette Elise Jolly and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-05-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Union is frequently accused of having a 'democratic deficit'. Many commentators argue that this could be remedied by increasing the powers of the European Parliament relative to those of the Council and the Commission. The fact that the European Parliament is the only EU institution whose members are directly elected leads to the assumption that it is also the most legitimate. The author argues that this position is based on the flawed assumption that the nature of the European citizenry is similar to those of the member states. In other words, the position assumes that the union has a demos, or a people, who are prepared to accept majority outcomes even when finding themselves in the minority. In this book the author argues that this is not the case and that the most severe dimension of the democracy problem is not procedural, but socio-psychological. The fact that the EU does not have a people means that establishing an EU-wide democracy based on analogies to domestic political systems is likely to lead to a further loss of democratic legitimacy. The EU can rely on output legitimacy in policy areas which do not require pan-European solidarity and identity and in which policy-making at EU-level increases efficiency and thereby benefits all citizens. However, policy areas which require high levels of solidarity or a common identity should either remain fully within the nation states, or be subject to intergovernmental rather than supranational decision-making at EU-level.

Author : Pascal Fontaine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789279715624
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Europe in 12 Lessons written by Pascal Fontaine and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What purpose does the EU serve? Why and how was it set up? How does it work? What has it already achieved for its citizens, and what new challenges does it face today? In a globalised world, can the EU compete successfully with other major economies while maintaining its social standards? How can immigration be managed? What will Europe’s role be on the world stage in the years ahead? Where will the EU’s boundaries be drawn? And what future is there for the euro? These are just some of the questions explored by EU expert Pascal Fontaine in this 2017 edition of his popular booklet Europe in 12 lessons. Pascal Fontaine is a former assistant to Jean Monnet and former professor at the Institut d’Études Politiques, Paris.

Author : Martin Westlake
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Modern Guide to the European Parliament written by Martin Westlake and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1994 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides an accessible, critical and analytical guide to the European Parliament, placing the institution in context in the light of the Maastricht Treaty and the forthcoming European elections. The volume should be useful to students as well as those working near to the EC and its institutions, including lawyers, lobbyists and consultants.

Author : Simon Hix
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780333961827
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political System of the European Union, Second Edition written by Simon Hix and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-04-16 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A substantially revised and updated new edition of this highly-successful and ground-breaking text which analyzes the EU as a political system using the methods of comparative political science.