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dc.contributor.authorYORDANOVA, Nikoleta
dc.date.accessioned2013-07-10T09:17:02Z
dc.date.available2013-07-10T09:17:02Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationColchester : ECPR Press, 2013en
dc.identifier.isbn9781907301391
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/27600
dc.description.abstractThe recent empowerment of the European Parliament makes this a timely study of the impact of its internal organisation on legislative politics, interest representation and democracy within the Union. Using data on all legislators and legislative proposals in the 6th parliamentary term, the book confronts alternative theories of legislative organisation in rigorous statistical analyses supported by rich interview information. The findings indicate that the internal setup and legislative output of the parliamentary committees serve the policy goals of parties in the European Parliament, and in particular the working majority party, rather than special interests or purely informational needs, which the author explains with the formal and informal parliamentary rules. As the committees advance party politics instead of particularistic policies, she concludes that legislating within the committees is positive for democracy in the European Union and raises concerns about the loss in transparency, legitimacy and accountability that the increasingly common fast-track bicameral decision-making outside the committees entails.en
dc.description.tableofcontents• List of Figures and Tables ix • List of Abbreviations xi • Acknowledgements xiii • Preface xv • Chapter One: Introduction 1 • Chapter Two: Theoretical Framework on Legislative Organisation 11 • Chapter Three: The Rationale Behind Committee Assignment 37 • Chapter Four: Distribution of Legislative Tasks 61 • Chapter Five: Legislative Influence of the European Parliament Committees 85 • Chapter Six: Main Findings and Empirical Implications 113 • Chapter Seven: Towards a Combined Theoretical Framework 129 • Chapter Eight: Concluding Remarks 139 • References 147 • Appendices 163 • Index 191en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherECPRen
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://hdl.handle.net/1814/14514
dc.titleOrganising the European Parliament : the role of committees and their legislative influenceen
dc.typeBooken
eui.subscribe.skiptrue
dc.description.versionPublished version of EUI PhD thesis, 2010en


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