Regional parliaments: Effective Actors in the EU multilevel parliamentary system?

Bursens, Peter and Hogenauer, Anna-Lena (2015) Regional parliaments: Effective Actors in the EU multilevel parliamentary system? [Conference Proceedings] (Submitted)

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Abstract

Introduction: The European Communities originally started with a set of institutions and a power balance that was heavily tilted in favour of executives. As the powers of the European level expanded over time, the democratic nature of European decision-making gained increasing importance. This led to a strengthening of the European Parliament, but also to the growing recognition of subnational levels of government, and thus to the gradual emergence of a European system of multi-level governance.

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