Overview
- Highly topical in light of the recent Lisbon Treaty, it will be the first book to analyse the formalised role of National Parliaments in the EU's decisionmaking process.
- Fills a gap in the market by bringing into focus the role of parliamentary administrations in supporting parliaments and the delegation of parliamentary business to administrators has largely been overlooked and is essential to understanding the administrative role in the EU policymaking process.
- Innovative analysis, building on unprecedented empirical data gathered by the OPAL (Observatory of Parliaments after the Lisbon Treaty) and combining them with qualitative analysis to provide comprehensive insights into developments.
Part of the book series: European Administrative Governance (EAGOV)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Parliament
- administration
- bureaucracy
- Europeanization
- European Union
- interparliamentary cooperation
- multi-level governance
- multi-level parliamentarism
- democracy
- decision-making
- desegregation
- EU policy-making
- European Integration
- European Parliament
- European Union (EU)
- European Union Policy
- governance
- Lisbon Treaty
- Multi-Level Governance
- parliament
- european union politics
About this book
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the role of parliamentary administrations in the control of European Union policy-making. It questions whether the decision to give parliaments greater powers in the aftermath of the Lisbon Treaty had only the intended effect of political debate on European policies, or whether it has also resulted in the bureaucratisation of parliaments. The authors argue that the challenges of information-management faced by parliaments lead them to delegate an extensive set of tasks to their administrations. They offer a broad empirical picture, analysing the challenges faced by national parliaments and the role and response of their administrations in the case of the European Parliament, national parliaments and regional parliaments. In addition, the book studies the interaction between different administrations and their contribution to interparliamentary cooperation. It presents a new and different perspective on the challenges and dynamics of multi-level parliamentarism.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Anna-Lena Högenauer is Research Assistant at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Luxembourg. She has published in a range of journals, including West European Politics, the European Political Science Review, Comparative European Politics and Regional and Federal Studies.
Christine Neuhold is Professor within the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS), Maastricht University, the Netherlands. She has published widely on EU integration with a special focus on parliaments, unelected actors and committees.
Thomas Christiansen is Jean Monnet Professor and Co-Director of the Maastricht Centre for European Governance at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. He is co-editor of the Journal of European Integration and co-editor of the European Administration Governance book series at Palgrave Macmillan.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Parliamentary Administrations in the European Union
Authors: Anna-Lena Högenauer, Christine Neuhold, Thomas Christiansen
Series Title: European Administrative Governance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137596260
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-36036-5Published: 08 February 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-59547-1Published: 05 June 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59626-0Published: 08 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2524-7263
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7271
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 161
Topics: European Union Politics, Political Science, Comparative Politics, Democracy, US Politics