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Brexit and Democracy

The Role of Parliaments in the UK and the European Union

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Editors:
  1. Thomas Christiansen

    1. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

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  2. Diane Fromage

    1. Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

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  • Examines the scrutiny of Brexit in regional, national and European parliaments across the EU
  • Analyses the existing dynamics between opposition and majority and parliament and government
  • Establishes how parliamentary scrutiny of Brexit fits in the debate of parliamentary scrutiny of EU affairs

Part of the book series: European Administrative Governance (EAGOV)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    • Thomas Christiansen, Diane Fromage
    Pages 1-25

  3. The UK Parliament and Brexit

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. What Do We Mean by Parliamentary Scrutiny of Brexit? A View from the House of Commons

      • Louise Thompson, Ben Yong
      Pages 29-49

    3. Brexit and the UK Parliament: Challenges and Opportunities

      • Philip Lynch, Richard Whitaker, Adam Cygan
      Pages 51-79

    4. Fighting to ‘Take Back Control’: The House of Lords and Brexit

      • Julie Smith
      Pages 81-103

  4. Brexit and the National Parliaments in the EU

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. The Scrutiny of Brexit in National Parliaments: Germany, Luxembourg and the Czech Republic Compared

      • Vanessa Buth, Anna-Lena Högenauer, Petr Kaniok
      Pages 107-132

    3. National and Regional Parliaments in the Context of Brexit: The Case of Belgium

      • Vivien Sierens, Nathalie Brack
      Pages 133-153

    4. The Polish Parliament and the Scrutiny of Brexit in Poland

      • Karolina BoroÅ„ska-Hryniewiecka
      Pages 155-178

    5. The Irish Parliament and Brexit

      • Gavin Barrett
      Pages 179-205

    6. The Spanish Parliament and Brexit

      • Antonio Bar Cendón
      Pages 207-232

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 321-323
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About this book

This volume addresses an important aspect of Brexit that has been ever-present in public debates, but has so far not received corresponding attention by academic scholars, namely the role of parliaments and citizens in this process. To address this gap, this book brings together an international group of authors who provide a comprehensive and multidisciplinary treatment of this subject. Specifically, the contributors, scholars from the UK and across Europe, provide diverse accounts of the role of regional, national and European parliaments and citizens from the perspectives of Law, Political Science and European Studies. The book is structured in three parts focused on developments, respectively, in the UK, in the parliaments of the EU27, and at the EU level. Beyond providing a comprehensive examination of the scrutiny of Brexit, the book utilises the insights gained from this experience for a study of executive-legislative relations in the European Union more generally, examining the balance, or lack thereof, between governments and parliaments. In this way, the book also speaks to some of the long-lasting, indeed perennial questions about the effects of constitutional provisions and political practice in the context of European democracy.







Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Thomas Christiansen

  • Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Diane Fromage

About the editors

Thomas Christiansen holds a Chair in European Institutional Politics at Maastricht University, the Netherlands and is Co-Director of the Centre for European Research in Maastricht (CERiM). He is Executive Editor (with Simon Duke) of the Journal of European Integration and has published widely on the politics of the European Union.


Diane Fromage is Assistant Professor of European Law at Maastricht University, the Netherlands and Research Coordinator at the Centre for European Research in Maastricht (CERiM). Her research mainly focuses on parliaments in the European Union, fiscal councils and the European Central Bank.

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