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Browsing SPS Articles by Author "BRESSANELLI, Edoardo"
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Title:Competitive and Coherent? Profiling the Europarties in the 2009 European Parliament elections
Author(s):BRESSANELLI, EdoardoDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:On the bases of the new EU Profiler data for the 2009 European Parliament elections, this work looks at two basic criteria to assess the representative potential of the EU party system: its competitiveness and the policy ...
Title:National Parties and Group Membership in the European Parliament: Ideology or pragmatism?
Author(s):BRESSANELLI, EdoardoDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This contribution investigates the factors behind political group membership in the European Parliament. In June 2009, more than 150 national parties, from the 27 member countries, joined one of the seven transnational ...
Title:The Informal Politics of Legislation: Explaining secluded decision making in the European Union
Author(s):REH, Christine; HERITIER, Adrienne; BRESSANELLI, Edoardo; KOOP, ChristelDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article investigates a widespread yet understudied trend in EU politics: the shift of legislative decision making from public inclusive to informal secluded arenas and the subsequent adoption of legislation as “early ...
Title:La politica nella Unione Europea all'Orizzonte 2009: gruppi e partiti in azione
Author(s):PERONACI, Marco; BRESSANELLI, EdoardoDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In June 2009, about 350 millions European citizens have been asked to cast their vote for the new European Parliament. The European Parliament is no longer a merely consultative assembly, but the co-legislator of the ...