This groundbreaking new study shows how the process of creating an ever closer European Union affects not only the policy-making, but also the politics and poli
This book analyses nearly 100 original interviews with Members of the European Parliament from across the European Union who were active between 1979 and 2019.
Exploring the European Union's 'democratic deficit,' this book traces the halting development of parliamentary democracy at the European level. Arguing that the
This book offers a new approach to the study of European democracy showing how this has developed through key episodes in the long history of the process: precu
Why have the national governments of EU member states successively endowed the European Parliament with supervisory, budgetary, and legislative powers over the