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The French Parliament and the European Union
This book explores how the European Union has changed the French Parliament since 1992. It supports the view that the institutional adaptation of both assemblies to European affairs is largely superficial as it lacks a genuine involvement from members of parliament. Nevertheless, the role of backbenchers has changed in the context of European integration. New ways of behaving, thinking and representing have emerged. From specialized representatives to constituency members, from presidential aspirants to Eurosceptic sovereigntists, French national parliamentarians have adapted differently to the EU. Far beyond the sole scrutiny of European draft legislation, the book provides a comprehensive map of this changing environment. It supports the view that the process has been driven by the search for day-to-day emotional gratifications rather than utilitarian strategies.
Parliamentary Roles in Modern Legislatures
This book gathers the most influential authors on role research and legislative studies to examine the different roles that MPs are playing in modern-day legislatures. It provides a comprehensive and critical overview of current research on legislative roles, summarises previous research, presents a large variety of methodological approaches and also explores the latest developing approaches to role theory. The concept of political roles has become increasingly relevant for understanding contemporary political systems. Parliamentary, legislative and representative roles are professional roles that provide a way of connecting the individual legislator to their institution that can also explai...
The Palgrave Handbook of National Parliaments and the European Union
This handbook offers a comprehensive picture of the European activities of national parliaments in all 28 member states of the European Union. In the aftermath of the Lisbon Treaty, it assesses the extent to which national legislatures actually matter in European governance.
The Roles and Function of Parliamentary Questions
Parliamentary questions are a feature of almost all national legislatures. Despite this, we know very little about how questions are used by MPs and what impact questions have on controlling the government. This volume advances our theoretical and empirical knowledge of the use of questioning in a number of different parliamentary settings. The propensity of parliamentarians to ask questions indicates that the interrogatories are an important tool for measuring an individual legislator’s job. Ultimately, how a parliamentarian chooses to use the questioning tool provides a unique insight into legislator behaviour and role orientation. Many of the chapters in this volume provide new empirica...
Handbook of Parliamentary Studies
This comprehensive Handbook takes a multidisciplinary approach to the study of parliaments, offering novel insights into the key aspects of legislatures, legislative institutions and legislative politics. Connecting rich and diverse fields of inquiry, it illuminates how the study of parliaments has shaped a wider understanding surrounding politics and society over the past decades.
Les députés français et l'Europe
Le constat est patent : le métier de député a changé. Cherchant à analyser les effets de l’intégration européenne sur l’Assemblée nationale, Olivier Rozenberg a interrogé une soixantaine de députés sur leur conception de l’activité parlementaire. Sous la pression de l’Europe, le rapport de l’élu à son électeur, à la loi, aux ministres ou à lui-même s’est modifi é. Il doit monter des dossiers de subvention, se faire le relais des griefs des électeurs, agir en lobbyiste à Bruxelles, ourdir des « coups » politiques autour des enjeux européens, etc. Ainsi, différents profils de parlementaires s’européanisent. Entrepreneurs locaux, défenseurs du terroir, souverainistes, présidentiables ou experts peuplent de « tristes hémicycles », théâtres d’une profonde transformation depuis Maastricht. Une tristesse qui doit autant aux difficultés d’adaptation des deux assemblées à l’Union européenne qu’aux émotions que les représentants mobilisent quotidiennement dans l’action.
A Litmus Test for Democratic Politics in Europe
This book investigates how political actors - and more particularly members of parliaments - have reacted to Brexit to assess its long-term consequences. Brexit has not only been a major disruption affecting the functioning and internal balance of the European Union (EU), but to a very large extent, it also represents a challenge to the idea of an ‘ever closer union’ and to the democratic principles on which the EU has been built. Relying on empirical explorations of regional and national parliaments across the continent as well as the European Parliament, the chapters in this volume address three intertwined sets of questions regarding the evolution of democratic politics in Europe in t...
Faut-il continuer à étudier l'Union européenne?
La gravité et la multidimensionnalité des crises que connaît l'UE imposent un questionnement sérieux. Comment les sciences sociales peuvent-elle analyser le désenchantement vis-à-vis de la construction européenne? Faut-il voir dans les incertitudes de l'actualité une occasion unique de rendre les études européennes plus scientifiques et objectives? Pour son 50e numéro, la revue s'efforce de regarder au-delà de la science politique de langue française.
Minority Governments in Comparative Perspective
Approximately one-third of parliamentary democracies are or are typically ruled by a minority government - a situation where the party or parties represented at cabinet do not between them hold a majority of seats in the national legislature. Minority governments are particularly interesting in parliamentary systems, where the government is politically responsible to parliament, can be removed by it, and needs (majority) support in the parliament to legislate. The chapters in this volume explore and analyse the formation, functioning, and performance of minority governments, what we term the why, how, and how well. The volume begins with overviews of the concept of and puzzles surrounding mi...
Political Representation in France and Germany
Notwithstanding its contemporary critics, political representation remains at the core of democratic politics. Based on a comparative research project that gathered data from observations, surveys, experiments and expert interviews, this book examines the process and the quality of political representation in France and Germany from a dual perspective. First, it analyzes MPs’ behavior during their district activities. Second, it investigates the perceptions and evaluations of the represented, the French and German citizens. In ten chapters different facets of MPs’ activities as well as citizens’ attitudes are comparatively investigated. The book is relevant for Politics scholars and practitioners at national parliaments to better understand representative democracies, and it may also contribute to improve representation itself.
