LEADER 04723nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910826891903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-136-74200-X 010 $a1-136-74201-8 010 $a1-283-10350-8 010 $a9786613103505 010 $a0-203-81927-6 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203819272 035 $a(CKB)2550000000033376 035 $a(EBL)683944 035 $a(OCoLC)727139790 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000536431 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11371198 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000536431 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10552406 035 $a(PQKB)11364550 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC683944 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL683944 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10466494 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL310350 035 $a(PPN)198456832 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000033376 100 $a20100930d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe European Parliament's committees $enational party influence and legislative empowerment /$fRichard Whitaker 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMilton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, [England] ;$aNew York $cRoutledge$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (177 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge / UACES contemporary European studies ;$v18 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-82990-0 311 $a0-415-48525-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; The European Parliament's Committees National party influence and legislative empowerment; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: studying a changing parliament; Summary of the main arguments of the book; Previous work on committees in the European Parliament; Structure of the book and sources of data; 2. Committees and national parties in the European Parliament: responding to legislative empowerment; Why committees?; Applying these approaches to the European Parliament; Implications 327 $a3. The development of the European Parliament's committee system: structure and turn overStructural changes in the committee system; The legislative empowerment of European Parliament committees; Turnover on committees in the European Parliament: expectations; Turnover on European Parliament committees at the aggregate level; Turnover on committees at the individual level; Conclusions; 4. Member states' and national parties' committee membership; National parties and committee membership; Member states and committees; Over-representation on committees and national parties' policy priorities 327 $aConclusions5. Committee assignments at the individual level in the European Parliament; MEPs' goals and committee choices; Committee assignments at the individual level; The effect of the 2004 enlargement on the committee assignment process; Conclusions; 6. Committee leadership positions: a game of musical chairs?; (S)electing committee chairs in the European Parliament: what we already know; Theoretical perspectives; MEPs' career preferences; Committee chairs in the European Parliament; Conclusions; 7. Representativeness in committee contingents 327 $aTheoretical framework: committees as instruments of political partiesMeasuring committee representativeness: mean absolute difference (MAD) scores; MAD scores in the European Parliament; Conclusions; 8. Conclusions: national party infl uence in a committee-based parliament?; Summary of the main fi ndings; Further research; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $aThis book analyzes the development of the European Parliament's (EP) committees and their relationship with national political parties in the light of the EP's increased legislative role over the last three decades. The book argues that national parties have a greater incentive to care about what goes on in the EP given the growth in its legislative power. Because most of the EP's detailed legislative work takes place in its committees, national parties should be concerned about their involvement with the EP's committee system. Based on extensive original research, this book shows ho 410 0$aRoutledge/UACES contemporary European studies series ;$v18. 606 $aPolitical parties$zEuropean Union countries 607 $aEuropean Union countries$xPolitics and government 615 0$aPolitical parties 676 $a328.4/0765 700 $aWhitaker$b Richard$f1976-$01489194 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826891903321 996 $aThe European Parliament's committees$93983944 997 $aUNINA