1: Introduction 2: The Democratic Deficit and Parliamentary Adaptation to Integration 3: Constitutional Preferences and National Parliamentary Reform 4: Analyzing Domestic Adaptation to European Integration Empirically 5: Constitutional Preferences in Dutch Parliamentary Reform Debates, 1985-2010 6: The Lack of a Strong 'Direct' Parliamentary Role in EU Policy-Making 7: Thomas Winzen and Berthold Rittberger: Parliamentary Reactions to Reforms of Economic and Monetary Union 8: Potentials and Pitfalls of Building Parliament Rights on Constitutional Preferences Appendix I: Additional Tables and Figures for Each Chapter Appendix II: Data Sources
Thomas Winzen is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Comparative
and International Studies, ETH Zurich. Thomas' research interests
encompass the study of European and parliamentary politics. Recent
projects have focussed on the creation of international
parliamentary institutions, parliamentary plenary debates, and
differentiated European integration. His publications have appeared
in prominent journals including the European Journal of
Political
Research, European Union Politics, Journal of Common Market
Studies, and Journal of European Public Policy.
This volume will, beyond any doubt, be of great interest to anyone
interested in parliamentary studies, and in democracy in general,
in the EU. It covers ample ground in these fields in considering
numerous aspects and in not focusing on a specific legislature,
which is definitely a strong point of this monograph. It also
successfully fills a gap in the existing literature in explaining
the mobilization of national parliaments at domestic level despite
their limited involvement at EU level, and is clear and
well-written.
*Diane Fromage, JMCS*
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