National Parliaments Within The Enlarged European Union: From Victims Of Integration To Competitive Actors? (routledge Advances In European Politics)

National Parliaments within the Enlarged European Union This book presents a wide range of perspectives on the role of national parliaments in EU politics and policy-making. Many accounts of the role of national parliaments portray them as passive victims of European integration. This study instead examines their role within the EU policy-making process, looking at efforts to address perceived democratic and information ‘deficits’. Bringing together leading scholars in the fields of European studies, public policy analysis and legislative research, this new volume provides: • • • A thorough and wide-ranging synthetic analysis of the position of national parliaments within the EU policy-making structures. A range of detailed country studies, including, for the first time, an analysis of the new member state parliaments in Central and Eastern Europe. An analysis of the significant changes to the position of national parliaments brought about by the recent Convention process and the provisions of the EU’s Constitutional Treaty. Making an important contribution to an emerging comparative literature on the parliamentary dimension to EU public policy-making, this text will interest students and researchers in the fields of European integration, EU politics and public policy analysis. John O’Brennan is Lecturer in European Politics in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Tapio Raunio is Professor of Political Science at the University of Tampere, Finland. Routledge Advances in European Politics 1 Russian Messianism Third Rome, revolution, Communism and after Peter J.S. Duncan 2 European Integration and the Postmodern Condition Governance, democracy, identity Peter van Ham 8 Ethnic Cleansing in the Balkans Nationalism and the destruction of tradition Cathie Carmichael 9 Democracy and Enlargement in Post-Communist Europe The democratisation of the general public in fifteen Central and Eastern European countries, 1991–1998 Christian W. Haerpfer 3 Nationalism in Italian Politics The stories of the Northern League, 1980–2000 Damian Tambini 10 Private Sector Involvement in the Euro 4 International Intervention in The power of ideas the Balkans since 1995 Stefan Collignon and Daniela Schwarzer Edited by Peter Siani-Davies 5 Widening the European Union The politics of institutional change and reform Edited by Bernard Steunenberg 11 Europe A Nietzschean perspective Stefan Elbe 6 Institutional Challenges in the European Union Edited