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Involvement of national parliaments in the political system of the European Union: a way for democratic empowerment?

KANIOK, Petr

Basic information

Original name

Involvement of national parliaments in the political system of the European Union: a way for democratic empowerment?

Authors

KANIOK, Petr (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Cheltenham/Northampton, Democratic Empowerment in the European Union, p. 15-39, 25 pp. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on EU Citizenship, 2018

Publisher

Edward Elgar

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

50601 Political science

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

References:

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/18:00104721

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

ISBN

978-1-78811-355-7

Keywords in English

EU; democratic deficit; EWS; national parliaments; parliamentary control

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 21/2/2019 11:05, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Abstract

V originále

The objective of this chapter is to carry out such an analysis. As the national parliaments are conceptualized as collective actors, the analysis is grounded in neo-institutional theories and their key assumptions are tested. Before that, the chapter reviews the role of parliaments within the democratic deficit debate and explains the mechanism that is used in order to involve national parliaments as actors of the EU political system. This section also comments on existing research dealing with the role of parliaments within the EU political system, paying particular attention to the work analysing national parliaments as a tool contributing to the better quality of EU democracy. In the following section, the hypotheses are presented in the context of neo-institutional theories. After that, the chapter analyses the collective actorness of EU national parliaments in the period of 2010–14 using their participation in the so-called Early Warning System (EWS) in order to find out whether parliaments succeeded in establishing an effective collective institution, which factors are shaping it and what their influence means for national parliaments’ contribution to EU democracy and legitimacy. As its main finding, the analysis reveals that national The chapter carries out an analysis of national parliaments as collective actor involved in EU decision making process. The analysis is grounded in neo-institutional theories and their key assumptions are tested. Before that, the chapter reviews the role of parliaments within the democratic deficit debate and explains the mechanism that is used in order to involve national parliaments as actors of the EU political system. This section also comments on existing research dealing with the role of parliaments within the EU political system, paying particular attention to the work analysing national parliaments as a tool contributing to the better quality of EU democracy. In the following section, the hypotheses are presented in the context of neo-institutional theories. After that, the chapter analyses the collective actorness of EU national parliaments in the period of 2010–14 using their participation in the so-called Early Warning System (EWS) in order to find out whether parliaments succeeded in establishing an effective collective institution, which factors are shaping it and what their influence means for national parliaments’ contribution to EU democracy and legitimacy. As its main finding, the analysis reveals that national parliaments failed in the period 2010–14 to establish an effective collective institution.

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