Overview
- Examines the scrutiny of Brexit in regional, national and European parliaments across the EU
- Analyses the existing dynamics between opposition and majority and parliament and government
- Establishes how parliamentary scrutiny of Brexit fits in the debate of parliamentary scrutiny of EU affairs
Part of the book series: European Administrative Governance (EAGOV)
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About this book
This volume addresses an important aspect of Brexit that has been ever-present in public debates, but has so far not received corresponding attention by academic scholars, namely the role of parliaments and citizens in this process. To address this gap, this book brings together an international group of authors who provide a comprehensive and multidisciplinary treatment of this subject. Specifically, the contributors, scholars from the UK and across Europe, provide diverse accounts of the role of regional, national and European parliaments and citizens from the perspectives of Law, Political Science and European Studies. The book is structured in three parts focused on developments, respectively, in the UK, in the parliaments of the EU27, and at the EU level. Beyond providing a comprehensive examination of the scrutiny of Brexit, the book utilises the insights gained from this experience for a study of executive-legislative relations in the European Union more generally, examining the balance, or lack thereof, between governments and parliaments. In this way, the book also speaks to some of the long-lasting, indeed perennial questions about the effects of constitutional provisions and political practice in the context of European democracy.
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Keywords
- parliamentary scrutiny
- committees
- House of Commons
- amendments
- legislation
- Parliament
- Brexit
- European Union
- select committees
- legislative process
- House of Lords
- executive-parliament relations
- EU Act 2017 (Notification of Withdrawal)
- EU Act 2018 (Withdrawal)
- scrutiny
- cooperation
- multilevel governance
- parliamentary questions
- social network analysis
- european union politics
Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Brexit and the National Parliaments in the EU
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Front Matter
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Brexit, the European Parliament and EU Citizens
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Thomas Christiansen holds a Chair in European Institutional Politics at Maastricht University, the Netherlands and is Co-Director of the Centre for European Research in Maastricht (CERiM). He is Executive Editor (with Simon Duke) of the Journal of European Integration and has published widely on the politics of the European Union.
Diane Fromage is Assistant Professor of European Law at Maastricht University, the Netherlands and Research Coordinator at the Centre for European Research in Maastricht (CERiM). Her research mainly focuses on parliaments in the European Union, fiscal councils and the European Central Bank.
Diane Fromage is Assistant Professor of European Law at Maastricht University, the Netherlands and Research Coordinator at the Centre for European Research in Maastricht (CERiM). Her research mainly focuses on parliaments in the European Union, fiscal councils and the European Central Bank.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Brexit and Democracy
Book Subtitle: The Role of Parliaments in the UK and the European Union
Editors: Thomas Christiansen, Diane Fromage
Series Title: European Administrative Governance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06043-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06042-8Published: 26 March 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-10333-9Published: 27 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-06043-5Published: 15 March 2019
Series ISSN: 2524-7263
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7271
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 323
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, European Union Politics, Democracy, British Politics, Comparative Politics, Legislative and Executive Politics