Representation in the European State of Emergency: Parliaments against Governments?

Riekmann, Sonja Puntscher; Wydra, Doris

doi:10.1080/07036337.2013.799943

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“…Besides, studying the parliamentary questions asked in the French Assemblée Nationale, Navarro and Brouard (2014) report that the overall proportion of EU-related questions directed at the French government was in decline at least until 2007. However, those who study a more recent time period show that parliamentary communication of EU affairs has been increasing over time (Rauh, 2015) and particularly as a result of the eurozone crisis (Auel & Höing, 2015;Puntscher Riekmann & Wydra, 2013;Wendler, 2014).…”

Section: Literature: Parliamentary Communication Of Eu Affairsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Strategic communication of EU affairs: an analysis of legislative behaviour on Twitter

Umit¹

2017

The Journal of Legislative Studies

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An influential literature underlines how much parliamentary communication of European Union (EU) affairs could offer to democracy in the EU. Yet members of parliaments (MPs) seem unmoved by their potential. MPs are strategic about their communication, and this study questions the suitability of EU affairs to their re-election strategies. Analysing the messages posted on Twitter by regional and national MPs from Ireland and the United Kingdom over a fourmonth period, this article shows that clear electoral safety and strong political responsibility increase the communication of EU affairs. This suggests that the low electoral benefits and the high political complexity of EU affairs are significant deterrents to parliamentary communication of these affairs. As a result, the voices of Eurosceptic MPs echo disproportionately louder on Twitter.

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Section: Literature: Parliamentary Communication Of Eu Affairsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Strategic communication of EU affairs: an analysis of legislative behaviour on Twitter

Umit¹

2017

The Journal of Legislative Studies

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“…These can be generally understood as increasing awareness for EU-level decisions, including financial and fiscal issues (Puntscher Riekmann and Wydra, 2013), or EU migration law (Dörrenbächer et al, 2015). In particular, De Wilde (2012) contends that politicisation over the EU budget has the potential to alleviate the 'constraining dissensus' in national parliaments ; shows that the Eurozone crisis has led some parliamentary parties in debtor countries to alter their political ideology regarding their positions towards anti-crisis measures.…”

Section: Manifestations Of the Mainstreaming Of Eu Affairs Scrutinymentioning

confidence: 99%

research note: studying a new phase of europeanisation of national parliaments

Gattermann

Högenauer

Huff³

2015

Eur Polit Sci

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In this research note, we propose studying a new trend of Europeanisation in national parliaments within the European Union (EU). We argue that further integration, combined with the opportunities and challenges presented by the Lisbon Treaty and the financial crisis, created pressure on national parliaments to expand the scrutiny process beyond European Affairs Committees. In this new phase of Europeanisation, parliaments are increasingly 'mainstreaming' EU affairs scrutiny, blurring the distinction between national and European policies and involving larger numbers of MPs. Following a review of existing research on the Europeanisation of national parliaments in the post-Lisbon era, we propose studying four dimensions of mainstreaming: the rising involvement of sectoral committees in European affairs; the adaptation of parliamentary staff to EU policy-making; the growing salience of European affairs in plenary debates; and increasing inter-parliamentary cooperation beyond European affairs specialists. We argue that this trend has significant implications for research that studies the roles of national parliaments in the democratic functioning of the EU.

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“…First, the salience of EU affairs in domestic debates and elections, and even in EP elections, has traditionally been low (Reif and Schmitt 1980). However, crisisrelated decisions, such as those to provide financial support to Greece or measures like the European stability mechanism or the Fiscal Compact, have generated parliamentary debate (Wendler 2014;Puntscher Riekmann and Wydra 2013;Closa and Maatsch 2014, and the contribution by Wonka and Göbel in this issue) and media attention throughout the Euro-zone, and resulted in public protest in many member states. Also, more governments than ever before in the history of the EU have been voted out of office, many clearly as a result of the austerity measures they had felt obliged to implement because of their undertakings as members of the Euro-zone.…”

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Beyond a constraining dissensus: The role of national parliaments in domesticating and normalising the politicization of European integration

Kröger

Bellamy

2016

Comp Eur Polit

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At the heart of the growing politicization of the EU lies a concern with how European integration potentially undermines forms of communal self-government linked to established political identities. This concern originates not from the much discussed democratic deficit of EU institutions but from a 'democratic disconnect' between domestic democratic institutions and processes and the decisions made at the EU level by national executives and EU officials. Our contention is that enhancing the role of national parliaments in EU decision-making offers a way to reconnect the integration process with the communal self-rule of the member states. We ground this argument in an account of the normative basis of the EU that we dub 'republican intergovernmentalism'. We argue that national parliaments offer a means for what we term the domestication and normalization of EU policy-making within the democratic processes of the member states. However, these effects will only occur if mainstream domestic parties employ these new parliamentary powers to develop competing EU policies that reflect their core ideological positions and those of their voters. We propose the introduction of a Parliamentary Legislative Initiative as a mechanism to provide an incentive for them to do so.

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Representation in the European State of Emergency: Parliaments against Governments?

Cited by 71 publications

References 25 publications

Strategic communication of EU affairs: an analysis of legislative behaviour on Twitter

Strategic communication of EU affairs: an analysis of legislative behaviour on Twitter

research note: studying a new phase of europeanisation of national parliaments

Beyond a constraining dissensus: The role of national parliaments in domesticating and normalising the politicization of European integration

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