Berthold Rittberger

Building Europe's Parliament: Democratic Representation Beyond the Nation State

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is followed by the charting of more recent key developments, culminating in the adoption of the Constitutional Treaty in 2004. The book provides a welcome addition to the literature on institutional design by reflecting on the conditions under which governments opt for the creation and empowerment of parliamentary institutions in international politics. It also makes a valuable contribution to the application of democratic theory to the study of the European Union by demonstrating that political elites shared the view that the new supranational polity which emerged from the debris of World War II suffered from 'democratic deficit' since its inception, thus disproving the claim that the lamented 'democratic deficit' is a recent phenomenon. This book is the Winner of the European Union Studies Association Prize for Best Dissertation 2002-2004.

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Why have the national governments of EU member states successively endowed the European Parliament with supervisory, budgetary, and legislative powers? In this major contribution to the study of the European Parliament, Berthold Rittberger develops an original and compelling theory of delegation to representative institutions, and demonstrates just how and why the European Parliament has become so powerful.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: Juni 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 164mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 545g
• ISBN-13: 9780199273423
• ISBN-10: 0199273421
• Artikelnr.: 21068445

Autorenporträt

Berthold Rittberger, Prize Research Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Building Europe's Parliament
* Part I: Theory
* 1: The Empowerment of the European Parliament: Lessons from the New
Institutionalism and Democratic Theory
* 2: Parliamentary Institutions in International Polities: What are the
Conditions?
* Part II: The European Parliament's Power Trias
* 3: The Origins of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel
Community
* 4: Budgetary Powers and the Treaty of Luxembourg
* 5: Legislative Powers and the Single European Act
* 6: From Maastricht to the Constitutional Treaty: The Return of
National Parliaments?
* Conclusion: No Integration without Representation?
* Bibliography