Organising the European Parliament: The Role of Committees and their Legislative Influence by Yordanova, Nikoleta

Organising the European Parliament: The Role of Committees and their Legislative Influence (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781907301391)

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Organising the European Parliament: The Role of Committees and their Legislative Influence by Yordanova, Nikoleta

Organising the European Parliament: The Role of Committees and their Legislative Influence

$54.00
Organising the European Parliament: The Role of Committees and their Legislative Influence by Yordanova, Nikoleta

Organising the European Parliament: The Role of Committees and their Legislative Influence

$54.00
Format: Paperback
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The recent empowerment of the European Parliament makes this a timely study of the impact of its internal organisation on legislative politics, interest representation and democracy within the Union. Using data on all legislators and legislative proposals in the sixth parliamentary term, the book confronts alternative theories of legislative organisation in rigorous statistical analyses supported by rich interview information. The findings indicate that the internal setup and legislative output of the parliamentary committees serve the policy goals of parties in the European Parliament, and in particular the working majority party, rather than special interests or purely informational needs, which the author explains with the formal and informal parliamentary rules. As the committees advance party politics instead of particularistic policies, she concludes that legislating within the committees is positive for democracy in the European Union and raises concerns about the loss in transparency, legitimacy and accountability that the increasingly common fast-track bicameral decision-making outside the committees entails.

Author: Nikoleta Yordanova
ISBN-10: 1907301399
ISBN-13: 9781907301391
Publisher: ECPR Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2013
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.45d
By Nikoleta Yordanova
By Nikoleta Yordanova
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Nikoleta Yordanova is Assistant Professor of European Politics in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim, Germany, where she had previously been a Research Fellow at the Political Economy of Reforms Research Centre. Prior to that she was a Researcher at the European University Institute (EUI), a Research Assistant at the Robert Schuman Centre and an intern at the European Parliament. Her work on the European Parliament was awarded the European Union Studies Association Award for Best Dissertation, the EUI's Fran?ois M?ny Prize for Best Comparative Thesis on Political Institutions and the Duncan Black Award by the ECPR Standing Group on Analytical Politics and Public Choice. She has published articles in international journals including European Union Politicsand West European Politics.

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