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Parliaments risk becoming the main losers of internationalisation; a process that privileges executives and experts. Still, parliamentarians have developed a range of responses to catch up with international decision-making: they coordinate their actions with other parliamentarians; engage in international parliamentary forums; and some even opt to pursue political careers at the supranational level, such as in the European Parliament. This volume provides a thorough empirical examination of how an internationalising context drives parliamentarians to engage in inter-parliamentary coordination; how it affects their power positions vis-à-vis executive actors; among themselves; and in society in general. Furthermore, building upon these empirical insights, the book assesses whether parliamentary democracy can remain sustainable under these changing conditions. Indeed, if parliaments are, and remain, central to our understanding of modern democracy, it is of crucial importance to track their responses to internationalisation, the fragmentation of political sovereignty, and the proliferation of multilevel politics.
Contents
contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
List of Abbreviations ix
Contributors xiii
Acknowledgements xvii
Chapter One: Practices of Interparliamentary Coordination in
International Politics: The European Union and Beyond
Ben Crum and John Erik Fossum 1
Part I. National Scrutiny Mechanisms in the EU
Chapter Two: Learning from the Best? Interparliamentary Networks
and the Parliamentary Scrutiny of EU Decision-Making
Aron Buzogány 17
Chapter Three: Cooperation among National Parliaments: An Effective
Contribution to EU Legitimation?
Viera Knutelská 33
Chapter Four: Deliberation in the Multilevel Parliamentary Field:
The Seasonal Workers Directive as a Test Case
Ian Cooper 51
Part II. Interparliamentary Interaction in Different Policy Domains
Chapter Five: Interparliamentary Coordination in Single Market PolicyMaking: The EU Services Directive
Ben Crum and Eric Miklin 71
Chapter Six: Coordination Practices in the Parliamentary Control of
Justice and Home Affairs Agencies: The Case of Europol
Daniel Ruiz de Garibay 87
Chapter Seven: Parliaments at the Water's Edge: The EU's Naval
Mission Atalanta
Dirk Peters, Wolfgang Wagner and Cosima Glahn 105
vi practices of interparliamentary coordination in international politics
Chapter Eight: An Asymmetric Two-Level Game: Parliaments in the
Euro Crisis
Arthur Benz 125
Part III. Actor Perspectives
Chapter Nine: EU Parliaments After the Treaty of Lisbon: Towards a
Parliamentary Field?
Johannes Pollak and Peter Slominski 143
Chapter Ten: The `Back Door' to National Politics: The French Greens
and the 2009 European Parliament Elections
Yoav Shemer-Kunz 161
Chapter Eleven: Women in Europe: Recruitment, Practices and Social
Institutionalisation of the European Political Field
Willy Beauvallet and Sébastien Michon 175
Part IV. Beyond the EU
Chapter Twelve: Who is Coming? Attendance Patterns in the NATO
and WEU Parliamentary Assemblies
Wolfgang Wagner 195
Chapter Thirteen: The Institutionalisation of a Parliamentary Dimension
of the WTO
Hilmar Rommetvedt 213
Part V. Democratic Implications
Chapter Fourteen: The European Union: Parliamentary Wasteland or
Parliamentary Field?
Christopher Lord 235
Chapter Fifteen: Conclusion: Towards a Democratic Multilevel
Parliamentary Field?
Ben Crum and John Erik Fossum 251
Bibliography 269
List of Interviewees 297
Index 299
