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Pulling the Strings: Party Group Coordinators in the European Parliament

Kaeding, Michael. and Obholzer, Lukas (2012) Pulling the Strings: Party Group Coordinators in the European Parliament. EIPAScope, 2012 (1). pp. 13-18. ISSN 1025-6253

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    Abstract

    Since its post-Lisbon increase in (legislative and non-legislative) powers, the European Parliament (EP) is more relevant than ever in the geographically diversified multilevel system of the EU. Party group coordinators occupy a crucial position in collective decision-making within the EP. However, knowledge about these pivotal actors is absent. This raises the question as to who these party group coordinators are, what they do, and what indeed makes a good coordinator. A new data set shows that in 2012, more than one-fifth of coordinators of the three largest and most influential groups are German, with British and Spanish coordinators ranking a distant second before Romanians. Among coordinators from NMS, only one-eighth were newcomers.

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    Item Type: Article
    Subjects for non-EU documents: EU policies and themes > EU institutions & developments > European Parliament
    EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > political affairs > political parties
    Subjects for EU documents: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Series and Periodicals: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Annual Reports: UNSPECIFIED
    Series: Journals > European Institute of Public Administration (Maastricht) > EIPASCOPE
    Depositing User: Phil Wilkin
    Official EU Document: No
    Language: English
    Date Deposited: 06 Sep 2013 14:46
    Number of Pages: 6
    Page Range: pp. 13-18
    Last Modified: 02 Oct 2013 14:05
    URI: http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/43466

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