One of the most remarkable democratic developments in Europe in recent decades has
been the empowerment of the only directly elected supranational assembly in the world: the …

Starting from the observation that the European Union now possesses many of the attributes
of modern political systems, Hix and Høyland take an innovative approach to analysing …

This broad-ranging text examines the political dynamic of the European Parliament within
the developing European Union and sets it in the broader context of comparative legislative …

This broad-ranging text examines the political dynamic of the European Parliament (EP),
showing how the EP is a key component of the political system of the EU. It looks at how …

How do individual legislators in the European Parliament (EP) make decisions on the wide
variety of policy proposals they routinely confront? Despite a flourishing literature on the …

The legislative organization of the European Parliament (EP) has far-reaching implications
for its ability to solve the democratic deficit problem of the European Union (EU) …

Although most of the legislative tasks of the European Parliament (EP) are performed in its
committees, it is controversial how representative they are of the overall plenary. Distributive …

Committee rapporteurs are central to decision making in many multiparty legislatures. It is
not clear, however, whether these rapporteurs are best characterized as partisan animals or …

This book analyzes the development of the European Parliament's (EP) committees and
their relationship with national political parties in the light of the EP's increased legislative …

Scholars have raised doubts about the ability of political parties to fulfil their traditional role
as 'transmission belts' between citizens and legislators in the EU. We discuss how the …