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Wessels, Wolfgang; Diedrichs, Udo

doi:10.2139/ssrn.302666

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“…What impact have these changes had on the EP's role in agriculture? The role of Parliament can be assessed in light of the typology developed by Bourguignon-Wittke et al (1985) and Wessels and Diedrichs (1997). Accordingly, the EP has three main functions: shaping the functional, sectoral and geographical scope of EU activities (system development); participating in the formulation and control of policy (policy-making); and providing an interface with public concerns (interaction).…”

Section: Ep's Emergent Political Agency?mentioning

confidence: 99%

From ‘Talking Shop’ to ‘Working Parliament’? The European Parliament and Agricultural Change

Roederer-Rynning¹

2003

J of Common Market Studies

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Studies of agricultural change in the EU have disregarded the European Parliament on the grounds that it enjoys limited formal policy-making prerogatives in this domain. Contrary to perceptions of parliamentary powerlessness, it is argued here that European Parliament committees can steer change by manipulating the formal institutional parameters defining their actions. The analysis shows how shifting patterns of farm politics in the last 15 years have enabled the European Parliament to promote key public concerns on the EU farm agenda. It fits one more piece into the puzzle of agricultural change by shedding light on the work of parliamentary committees. Copyright Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2003.

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Section: Ep's Emergent Political Agency?mentioning

confidence: 99%

From ‘Talking Shop’ to ‘Working Parliament’? The European Parliament and Agricultural Change

Roederer-Rynning¹

2003

J of Common Market Studies

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“…Kiiver’s critical review of the potential of national parliaments to influence EU decision-making eventually has him return to the importance of ‘bolstering a solid European Parliament’ (Kiiver, 2006: 182). Speaking to the EP, Wessels and Diedrichs (1997) have underlined that a proper evaluation of the EP’s legitimacy requires ‘a new concept of legitimacy for a new kind of parliament’, which can appreciate its performance in the wider context of the EU’s multilevel system in which European, national, and sub-national processes of decision-making are increasingly fused. Maurer (2002) actually uses the concept of European multilevel-parliamentarism ( europäischen Mehrebenenparlamentarismus ) as an overarching label for his empirical analysis of the EP’s and national parliaments’ engagement in EU affairs.…”

Section: The Consolidation Of Two Channels Of Representation In the Eumentioning

confidence: 99%

The Multilevel Parliamentary Field: a framework for theorizing representative democracy in the EU

Crum

Fossum

2009

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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This article introduces the concept of the ‘Multilevel Parliamentary Field’ as a means for analysing the structure of democratic representation in the European Union (EU). This concept is warranted for several reasons. First, the multilevel configuration that makes up the EU contains two channels of democratic representation: one directly through the European Parliament, the other indirectly through the national parliaments and governments. These two channels are likely to persist side by side; hence, both the European and the national parliaments can claim to represent ‘the people’ in EU decision-making. Second, this structure of representation is in many respects without precedent; it does not fit established concepts of democratic representation derived from the nation-state or from international relations, such as a federal two-channel system or a parliamentary network. Third, the representative bodies in the EU are interlinked, also across levels. Up until now, no proper conceptual apparatus has been devised that can capture the distinctive traits of this EU multilevel representative system, and help to assess its democratic quality. The concept of the Multilevel Parliamentary Field fills both these tasks. It serves as a heuristic device to integrate the empirical analysis of the different forms of democratic representation in the EU’s multilevel system, and it provides new angles for analysing the democratic challenges that this system faces.

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“…The research on democratic legitimacy in the EU has overall concluded that supranational authorities have traditionally relied on the first and third types of legitimisation (Scharpf 1994 andWessels and Diedrichs 1997;Höreth 1998;Moravcsik 2002). On the one hand, the technocratic and utilitarian side of the functioning of the Brussels bureaucracy, i.e.…”

Section: Legitimacy and Modes Of Legitimisation In The Eumentioning

confidence: 99%

Legitimating the Union: Dilemmas of Citizens' and National Elites' Inclusion in a Multilevel Europe

Andreev

2008

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It is often claimed that the EU suffers from a range of, occasionally, difficult-to-identify legitimacy problems. This is mainly because of its complex internal structure and way of functioning – i.e. between various levels of governance and centres of decision-making authority. This paper focuses on the role of citizens and national elites in granting support for the EU. The bottom-up approaches of legitimisation are thus explored. Special attention is paid to the participatory opportunities for citizens and national elites in multilevel governance.

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A New Kind of Legitimacy for a New Kind of Parliament ? The Evolution of the European Parliament

Cited by 4 publications

References 12 publications

From ‘Talking Shop’ to ‘Working Parliament’? The European Parliament and Agricultural Change

From ‘Talking Shop’ to ‘Working Parliament’? The European Parliament and Agricultural Change

The Multilevel Parliamentary Field: a framework for theorizing representative democracy in the EU

Legitimating the Union: Dilemmas of Citizens' and National Elites' Inclusion in a Multilevel Europe

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