The European Parliament

Judge, David; Earnshaw, David

doi:10.1007/978-1-137-07775-2

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“…An MEP certainly has to pay attention in two directions, and from the perspective of his or her activities inside and outside the EP, picking to focus on either the national or European level may be a definitive choice. In lieu of "party government," the outstanding role of committees is also known (Judge and Earnshaw 2008;Yordanova 2009). All MEPs are assigned into committees, and consequently the question of how much time and energy a politician should spend on policy work arises instantly.…”

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Central European MEPs and Their Roles: Behavioral Strategies in the European Parliament

Bíró-Nagy

2016

World Political Science

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This article helps to better understand the role orientations of the Central European Members of the European Parliament, the factors that influence their strategies, and the relationship between their roles and activities. Based on the results of a quantitative survey research with MEPs from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia in the 2009-2014 term, I argue that it is possible to explain the political roles of MEPs by their attitudes towards politics and policy, and the territorial focus of representation (European vs. national level). Due to the internal mechanisms of the EP and its position in the multilevel governance system of European politics, these two dimensions represent dilemmas that all MEPs face, when it comes to the efficient use of their scarce resources: time and energy. This study demonstrates that socio-demographic factors, attitudes and political socialization all have an influence on what roles MEPs choose. The time spent in the EP, age, previous political experience, party affiliation, left-right self-definition and career ambitions are all important factors that can explain the political behavior of MEPs. The Central European MEPs' focus on politics vs. policy and the European vs. national political arena have different roots, and different variables explain them. Orientation towards politics and policy largely depends on previous political experience and future career ambitions. Focus on the European or the national level is best explained by age, party affiliation and left-right self-definition.

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Central European MEPs and Their Roles: Behavioral Strategies in the European Parliament

Bíró-Nagy

2016

World Political Science

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“…Modern parliaments are studied from the point of essence and functioning (Rogers & Walters, 2015;Palmer, 2015;Beetham, 2006) in the country (Kriesi, 2001;Remington, 2008;Norton, 2013;Bach, 2003;Ziegenhain, 2008) and European (Dann, 2003;Judge & Earnshaw, 2008) aspects; political (Easton, 1953) and party (Kreppel , 2002;Hix et al, 2003) conjugation, etc. The problems of interaction between chambers are concerned only with those countries that have bicameralism (Tsebelis, 1997) and are designed contextually.…”

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Constitutional Spheres and Forms of Interaction among Chamber in Modern Parliaments

Nikonova¹,

Markhgeym²,

Novikova³

et al. 2017

JPL

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AbstarctThe article is devoted to the identification of spheres and associated forms of interaction between the chambers of modern bicameral parliaments. It was noted that the constitutional forms of inter-chamber cooperation differ by considerable variety and depend on a legal status of chambers. On the basis of constitutional legislation analysis, the article proposes the systematization of spheres and the forms of interaction between the chambers of parliaments.

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“…Indeed, throughout its history the EP has demonstrated a capacity to maximize its legislative influence beyond formal treaty-prescribed powers through the creative use of its own Rules of Procedure and Informal decision-making processes (Farrell and Héritier 2007;Héritier 2007;Hix 2002;Judge and Earnshaw 2008). More specifically Farrell and Héritier (2004) have examined the interconnection between interorganizational and intraorganizational arenas of decision-making, and have sought to theorize how changes to the macro-organizational relationship between collective actors affects internal processes of decision-making and the bargaining strength of individual actors within each collective actor.…”

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‘Relais actors’ and co-decision first reading agreements in the European Parliament: the case of the advanced therapies regulation

Judge¹,

Earnshaw²

2011

Journal of European Public Policy

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The processing of the advanced therapies regulation is of particular interest to scholars of the European Union's (EU) legislative process and students of the European Parliament (EP) because it provides a case study which throws light upon assumptions commonly made about the role of the EP's 'relais actors', the promotion of consensus-building within and between parliamentary committees, and the development of intraorganizational rules in response to early agreements in the co-decision procedure. An examination of the EP's processing of the advanced therapies dossier provides an 'unusual' but vivid illustration of how the identification of committee rapporteurs as the most important parliamentary 'relais actors' fails to capture the increasingly important roles performed by shadow rapporteurs. Significantly, the 'unusual' occurrences associated with the processing of the advanced therapies regulation came at a crucial juncture in the reconsideration of the EP's intraorganizational rules in relation to early agreements and the subsequent adoption of new Rules of Procedure in 2009.

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The European Parliament

Cited by 88 publications

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Central European MEPs and Their Roles: Behavioral Strategies in the European Parliament

Central European MEPs and Their Roles: Behavioral Strategies in the European Parliament

Constitutional Spheres and Forms of Interaction among Chamber in Modern Parliaments

‘Relais actors’ and co-decision first reading agreements in the European Parliament: the case of the advanced therapies regulation

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