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  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
    Subsection 4.The legislative branch
    Abels Gabriele, Eppler Annegret (eds.)
    Subnational Parliaments in the EU Multi-Level Parliamentary System Taking Stock of the Post-Lisbon Era
    Ed. StudienVerlag , Innsbruck, Wien, Bozen , 2016
    Page 376

    ISBN 978-3-7065-5396-4
    Subnational or regional parliaments with legislative competences are increasingly active in EU affairs and are recognized as potential actors in the EU's multi-level system by EU law. However, studies on the territorial effects of European integration and on the Europeanization of parliaments as well as parliamentarism have so far disregarded this group of parliaments. In the existing theoretical concepts of 'multi-level parliamentarism' subnational parliaments do not have a place until now. The book addresses this theoretical and empirical gap. Referring to studies on parliamentarism, federalism, and Europeanization the contributions discuss how to include subnational parliaments in the existing research. A total of 74 subnational parliaments from eight member states is affected by the new system, which allows them to participate in the so-called Early Warning Mechanism of subsidiarity control. The situation in six EU member states is analyzed in detail. The country chapters illustrate and analyze how subnational parliaments in the federal member states (Austria, Belgium, Germany) and in the decentralized/devolved ones (Great Britain, Italy, Spain) functionally adapt to the new opportunity structure and discuss the repercussions on legislative-executive relations as well as on interparliamentary relations.
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    Series: Foster Europe - International Studies Series, n. 3
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