Parliamentary scrutiny as a function of interparliamentary cooperation among subnational parliaments

Eppler, Annegret; Maurer, Andreas

doi:10.1080/13572334.2017.1329989

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“…The subsequent question is: when we can expect the interaction between MPs and MEPs to move towards the cooperative end of the continuum? First, scholars assume a path-dependent increase in cooperation over time (Eppler and Maurer 2017: 243). Raunio (2000) has shown how transnational contact between parliamentarians grew in the 1990s, in parallel with the EP's empowerment.…”

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Who Teams Up with the European Parliament? Examining Multilevel Party Cooperation in the European Union

Meissner

Rosén

2021

Gov. & oppos.

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As in nearly all European Union (EU) policy areas, scholars have turned to analysing the role of national parliaments, in addition to that of the European Parliament (EP), in trade politics. Yet, there is limited understanding of how the parliamentarians at the two levels interact. This article fills the gap by conceptualizing these interactions as a continuum ranging between cooperation, coexistence and competition. We use this continuum to explore multilevel party interactions in EU trade talks and show how cooperation compels politicization – national parliamentarians mainly interact with their European colleagues in salient matters. However, we argue that the impact of politicization on multilevel relations between parliamentarians in the EP and national parliaments is conditioned by party-level factors. Hence, we account for how and why politicization triggers multilevel party cooperation across parliaments in the EU through ideological orientation, government position and policy preferences and show how this takes place in the case of trade.

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Section: Theoretical Expectationsmentioning

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Who Teams Up with the European Parliament? Examining Multilevel Party Cooperation in the European Union

Meissner

Rosén

2021

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“…European. The question of networking is studied by Eppler and Maurer (2017), who analyse institutionalized forms of inter-parliamentary cooperation and the extent to which these networks fulfil legislative or control functions.…”

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Regional parliaments in the EU multilevel parliamentary system

Bursens

Högenauer

2017

The Journal of Legislative Studies

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European integration has created a multilevel political system that is dominated by executive actors. Despite the increasing competences of the European Parliament, a growing EU-awareness of national assemblies and an emerging attention of regional parliaments for EU affairs, the EU polity still lacks a sound parliamentary representation. As the EU presents itself as a representative democracy, the current set-

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“…A vigorous debate on the topic exists (Maurer 2002;Benz 2017), in particular regarding whether parliaments in such a system cooperate to meet their representation function and to deliberate ideas (Crum and Fossum 2009), or to get information and enhance their control activities in a two-level game (Eppler and Maurer 2017), Similarly, a substantial body of research examines how European integration affects national parliaments (Auel and Raunio 2014;Auel et al 2015;Gattermann et al 2016).…”

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Is there a ‘German school’ of comparative politics? An institutional perspective

2017

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Looking at scientific research in terms of 'schools' marks an established way of evaluating larger research areas. In this paper, we deliberately use a soft concept of 'school', designed to capture possible peculiarities of the discipline of Comparative Politics in Germany, and its impact at the international level of political research. The focus of our inquiry is on three major sub-areas of comparative political studies-comparative executive politics, comparative legislative research, and comparative federalism research-which can be meaningfully subsumed under the label of institution-centred comparative political research. Moreover, we focus basically on the developments of the past decade. We find that the size of the German, or German-language, community of comparative politics has long worked to keep the pressure for German or Germany-based scholars to publish their research in English low, though the language of publication alone cannot be considered a valid indicator of either scientific excellence or parochialism. Data collected for the past decade, measuring the share of contributions by German or Germany-based scholars in the internationally leading specialist journals of the sub-areas examined, suggest that the discipline has 'opened up' and 'reached out' more recently. That said, for the time being, the German comparative politics community in the three sub-areas studied continues to be considerably stronger at the receiving end, in terms of paying reasonable attention to the theoretical and empirical developments at the international level, than at actively shaping the international debate. As in other areas, exceptions prove the rule.

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Parliamentary scrutiny as a function of interparliamentary cooperation among subnational parliaments

Cited by 8 publications

References 25 publications

Who Teams Up with the European Parliament? Examining Multilevel Party Cooperation in the European Union

Who Teams Up with the European Parliament? Examining Multilevel Party Cooperation in the European Union

Regional parliaments in the EU multilevel parliamentary system

Is there a ‘German school’ of comparative politics? An institutional perspective

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