European Representation in EU National Parliaments (Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics)

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• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 315
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides an original argument that rejects the idea of national MPs having but one ‘standard’ mode of representation. It acknowledges the national electoral connection, but considers representation beyond national borders. The author empirically investigates such patterns of representation in MPs’ parliamentary speech-making behavior and their attitudes in Austria, Germany, Ireland and the UK. The book analyzes representative claims in parliamentary debates on the Constitutional Treaty, the Lisbon Treaty and the Eurozone crisis, and relies on qualitative interviews with members of the European affairs and budget committees. It finds a Eurosceptic Europeanization in that national MPs from the Eurosceptic left particularly represent other EU citizens.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction
1.1 Purpose of the Book
1.2 State of Research
1.3 The Representative Puzzle
1.4 Outline of the Book
References
2 Theoretical Framework
2.1 The ‘Standard Account’ of Parliamentary Representation and EU Politics
2.2 National Parliamentary Representation in the EU: The Concept of This Study
2.3 Whom and How to Represent in EU Politics?
2.4 Summarizing the Theoretical Approach
References
3 Data and Methodology
3.1 Selection of Countries, Topics, Parliamentary Debates and Interview Partners
3.1.1 Comparison Across Countries and Topics
3.1.2 Parliamentary Debates and Interview Partners
3.2 Data Collection: Representative Claims Analysis and Qualitative Interviews
3.2.1 Representative Claims Analysis
3.2.2 Qualitative Interviews
3.3 Data Evaluation: Regression Analyses and Typology of MPs
3.4 Dependent Variables and Data Structure
References
4 Focus and Style of Representation in EU Politics
4.1 The Purpose of This Chapter
4.2 Focus of Representation: Whom to Represent in EU Politics?
4.3 Style of Representation: How to Represent in EU Politics?
4.4 Focus and Style of Representation: Whom and How to Represent in EU Politics?
4.5 Conclusions
References
5 Explaining MPs’ Representative Behavior in EU Politics
5.1 The Purpose of This Chapter
5.2 Institutional and Party Strategic Factors
5.2.1 Left–Right and EU Party Positions
5.2.2 Governing Responsibility and European Experience
5.2.3 Topic and Position in Claims-Making
5.2.4 Committee Membership and Governing Responsibility
5.2.5 Catch-All Parties vs. Single-Issue Parties
5.3 Operationalization
5.3.1 Dependent Variables
5.3.2 Independent Variables
Regression of Focus of Representation
Regression of Style of Representation
5.4 Behavioral Representative Focus Explained
5.5 Behavioral Representative Style Explained
5.6 Conclusions
References
6 Explaining MPs’ Representative Conception in EU Politics
6.1 The Purpose of This Chapter
6.2 Conceptual Representative Focus Explained
6.2.1 The National Representatives (in a European Context) (N1s and N2s)
Explaining Differences I: Other Governments’ Positions—National vs. European Context
Explaining Differences II: Tension Between National Responsiveness and European Responsibility
Explaining Commonalities I: Consequences on Other EU Citizens
Explaining Commonalities II: Focus of Representation in EU Affairs
6.2.2 The Europeanized Representatives (E1s Compared to N2)
Explaining Commonalities: Other Governments’ Positions and Tension – N2s and E1s
Explaining Differences: Consequences on Other EU Citizens and Representative Object—N2s And E1s
6.2.3 The European Representative (E2 Compared to E1)
6.3 Conceptual Representative Style Explained
6.4 Causal Mechanisms Behind Representative Focus and Style
6.5 Conclusions
References
7 Discussion and Conclusion
7.1 Cross-Border Representation in an Interdependent World
7.2 The Virtue of Europeanized Parliaments
7.3 From Transnational Representation to Transnational Democracy
References
Appendix
References
Index