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Record Nr.

UNINA9910149373003321

Autore

Maatsch Aleksandra <1979-, >

Titolo

Parliaments and the economic governance of the European Union : talking shops or deliberative bodies? / / Aleksandra Maatsch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-315-38724-7

1-315-38726-3

1-315-38725-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 143 p.) : ill

Collana

Routledge studies on government and the European Union ; ; 6

Classificazione

16.14

Disciplina

306.0947

Soggetti

Central-local government relations - European Union countries

Decentralization in government - Law and legislation - European Union countries

central government

decentralisation

social situation

economic governance (EU)

EU Member State

Electronic books.

European Union countries Social conditions 21st century

European Union countries Economic policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-128) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- European financial crisis : dominant narratives and the legal status of anti-crisis measures -- Empowered or disempowered? : the role of national parliaments during the reform of European economic governance -- Drivers of political parties : voting behaviour in European economic governance : the ultimate decline of the economic cleavage? -- Parliamentary parties' discourses on anti-crisis measures : between solidarity and particularistic interest -- Macroeconomic preferences of national parliamentary parties -- Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book analyses how national parliaments and parliamentary parties



performed their legislative, representative and control functions during the reform of European economic governance. Focusing on domestic approvals of anti-crisis measures (EFSF, ESM and the Fiscal Compact) in all member states of the Eurozone, the book aims at establishing to what extent national parliaments and parliamentary parties secured their competences in EU policy-making during that process. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, In order to address that question the book employs an interdisciplinary approach and analyses (i) in which states parliaments' formal powers in approval of anti-crisis measures were constrained, (ii) how parliamentary parties voted on the analysed measures, (iii) what were the dominant discourses of their proponents and opponents and (iv) which parties advocated neoliberal and which Keynesian measures. This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners in European Union politics and studies, political parties and parliaments, European Economic governance and more broadly to European politics.