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The European Parliament's committees : national party influence and legislative empowerment / / Richard Whitaker



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Autore: Whitaker Richard <1976-, > Visualizza persona
Titolo: The European Parliament's committees : national party influence and legislative empowerment / / Richard Whitaker Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, [England] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (177 p.)
Disciplina: 328.4/0765
Soggetto topico: Political parties - European Union countries
Soggetto geografico: European Union countries Politics and government
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; 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
3. 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
Conclusions5. 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
Theoretical 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
Sommario/riassunto: This 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
Titolo autorizzato: The European Parliament's committees  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-136-74201-8
1-283-10350-8
9786613103505
0-203-81927-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910456896903321
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Serie: Routledge/UACES contemporary European studies series ; ; 18.