Parliamentary Questions and Representation of Territorial Interests in the EP

Brack, Nathalie; Costa, Olivier

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“…Existing work has, for example, analyzed the impact of electoral systems on candidates' campaign strategies (Hix and Hagemann, 2009;Lorenzo Rodríguez and Garmendia Madariaga, 2016;Obholzer and Daniel, 2016). For MEPs, the focus has been on representational roles (Brack and Costa, 2019;Farrell and Scully, 2010;), on the type of parliamentary activities they prioritize (Høyland et al, 2019;Sorace, 2018), on parliamentary voting (Däubler and Hix, 2018;Hix, 2004) and on their interactions with interest groups (Ibenskas and Bunea, 2021). 3 A third theme examines the consequences of parliamentary behavior on the electoral performance of parties and candidates.…”

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Introducing COMEPELDA: Comprehensive European Parliament electoral data covering rules, parties and candidates

Däubler

Chiru

Hermansen

2021

European Union Politics

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We introduce a new collection of data that consolidates information on European Parliament elections into one comprehensive source. It provides information on formal electoral rules as well as national-level and district-level election results for parties and individual politicians (including full candidate lists). The use of existing and new key variables makes it easy to link the data across the different units of observation (country, party, candidate, member of parliament) and join them with external information. Currently, the data cover four elections (1999–2014). Among other aspects, the collection should facilitate research on the European Parliament's allegedly weak electoral connection. In this article, we outline the main features of the datasets, describe patterns of intra-party competition and preference voting and conduct exploratory analyses of individual-level changes in list positions.

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Introducing COMEPELDA: Comprehensive European Parliament electoral data covering rules, parties and candidates

Däubler

Chiru

Hermansen

2021

European Union Politics

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“…To find this out, we draw on an original database on the 2,244 questions for oral answer issued from July 2004 to May 2019. They offer a better indicator of partisan strategies of issue politicization than questions with a demand for a written answer, which are tabled by MEPs quite freely, possibly for political reasons, but also regarding issues that are salient in their district (Bowler and Farrell, 1995; Brack and Costa, 2019; Sozzi, 2016). On the contrary, questions for oral answer have to be submitted by a parliamentary committee, a political group or at least 40 MEPs; most of them come from groups and provide a good indicator of their topics of predilection.…”

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“…In her analysis of the use of questions, speeches, motions and written declarations during one legislature, Sorace (2018) shows that written questions are privileged by backbenchers. Brack and Costa (2019) have studied how written questions are used to address issues in link with MEPs' constituencies.…”

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“…Questions are not central in the activities of the EP, now rather centred on law-making, but they provide a strategic tool in an institutional context that otherwise offers little freedom to MEPs and groups. Also, from an empirical standpoint, questions are an excellent indicator of groups' and MEPs' attention focus (Brack and Costa, 2019), providing insight into EU-level politicization processes.…”

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Issue Politicization in the European Parliament. An Analysis of Parliamentary Questions for Oral Answer (2004–19)*

Guinaudeau

Costa

2021

J of Common Market Studies

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This article complements analyses of the partisan politicisation of the European Parliament from roll-call votes with an analysis of political groups' use of parliamentary questions. Questions offer an institutional opening for issue politicization and for partisan differentiation. Parliamentary groups have incentives to shape EU policies by drawing the attention to their topics of predilection and by controlling ongoing action. We make use of a new dataset on questions for oral answer (2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017)(2018)(2019) to test if this results in European party groups emphasizing differentiated topics in their questions to the Commission and the Council. Our analyses confirm groups' differentiated issue attention. These findings have important implications for understanding the partisan politicization of EU policies and confirming the truly political nature of deliberation in the EP. They reveal patterns of partisan opposition different from those expressed in votes and emphasize the relevance of parliamentary questions as a key institutional window for politicization.

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“…First, we analyse the cosponsorship of parliamentary questions as a measure of agenda-setting efforts by PRR MEPs: what issues do they emphasise when co-sponsoring parliamentary questions? Parliamentary questions have been used in the EP for three main purposes: executive oversight (Proksch & Slapin, 2011), signalling responsiveness to constituents and representing territorial interests (Brack & Costa, 2019) and agenda-setting (Meijers & van der Veer, 2019b). Adopting the latter view, we contend that PRR actors may use parliamentary questions to raise new issues on the EP's agenda or to push specific framings of debated topics.…”

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Democratic backsliding as a catalyst for polity-based contestation? Populist radical right cooperation in the European Parliament

Chiru

Wunsch

2021

Journal of European Public Policy

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The strengthening of the populist radical right poses an important challenge for European integration. This article explores whether democratic backsliding among member states has acted as a catalyst for broader PRR cooperation at the EU level. Studying the co-sponsorship and contents of parliamentary questions and roll-call vote cohesion of PRR representatives in the European Parliament from 2009 to 2019, we examine the extent and substance of their joint polity-based contestation of European integration. Our findings indicate that overall levels of PRR cooperation remain low and concentrated within European party groups, suggesting that ideological divergences between PRR actors and their institutional fragmentation within the EP still hamper their formal cooperation at the European level. These insights feed into debates on the potential and limitations of transnational cooperation of PRR actors.

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Parliamentary Questions and Representation of Territorial Interests in the EP

Cited by 10 publications

References 54 publications

Introducing COMEPELDA: Comprehensive European Parliament electoral data covering rules, parties and candidates

Introducing COMEPELDA: Comprehensive European Parliament electoral data covering rules, parties and candidates

Issue Politicization in the European Parliament. An Analysis of Parliamentary Questions for Oral Answer (2004–19)*

Democratic backsliding as a catalyst for polity-based contestation? Populist radical right cooperation in the European Parliament

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