Executive dominance in the contemporary EU is part of a wider migration of executive power
towards types of decision making that eschew electoral accountability and popular …

It is customary to argue that foreign policy is very much dominated by the executive, with
parliaments wielding limited influence. However, with the exception of the US Congress …

The positions of political parties in various foreign policy questions and how such
ideological stances matter in foreign and security policy decision-making remain largely …

This contribution addresses two questions. First, what forms and shapes does European
Union (EU) differentiation take in the realm of representative democracy in the multilevel …

How has the new structure of European Union (EU) economic governance affected the
ability of parliaments (national and European) to scrutinize and control economic policy …

The Euro-Crisis and the legal and institutional responses to it have had important
constitutional implications on the architecture of the European Union (EU). Going beyond …

THE PALGRAVE HANDBOOK OF NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS AND THE EUROPEAN UNION
Page 1 THE PALGRAVE HANDBOOK OF NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS AND THE EUROPEAN …

There is growing academic interest in parliamentary diplomacy. This is a welcome
development because for many years only parliamentary practitioners themselves paid …

Present-day EU is facing strong internal and external centrifugal pulls, clearly exacerbated
by Brexit. A key question is what ties the EU together and whether EU member states will …

Democracy and federalism are commonly viewed as complementary components of a
political system. Conversely, a long-standing discourse claims the incompatibility of …