"The future is parliamentary? Parliamentarisation and legitimation in the EU"

Judge, David and Earnshaw, David. (2003) "The future is parliamentary? Parliamentarisation and legitimation in the EU". In: UNSPECIFIED, Nashville, TN. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

If the “future of Europe” is “parliamentary,” we need to understand what "parliamentarisation" entails and the extent to which the interinstitutional connections between national parliaments and the EP contribute to such a process. Indeed, the paper addresses the issue of "parallelism"-of parallel but separate processes of parliamentary legitimation-and assesses whether attempts to fuse the two necessarily redress perceived legitimation crises. The specific focus of the paper, however, is upon "parliamentarisation" at the EU level and upon initiatives to enhance parliamentary control and authorization over the Commission

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