The Europeanization of Domestic Legislatures [electronic resource] : The Empirical Implications of the Delors' Myth in Nine Countries /
Brouard, Sylvain.editor.
Costa, Olivier.editor.
König, Thomas.editor.
In ten years 80 per cent of the legislation related to economics, maybe also to taxes and social aff airs, will be of Community origin.” This declaration has been largely quoted, paraphrased and deformed by different authors, creating a persistent myth according to which 80% of the legislative activity of the national legislatures would soon be reduced to the simple transposition of European norms”. This book addresses the topic of the scope and impact of Europeanization on national legislation, as a part of the Europeanization debate which raises normative concerns linked to the “democratic deficit” debate. The state of the art shows that there are many assumptions and claims on how European integration may affect national legislation and, more generally, domestic governance but that there is a lack of solid and comparative data to test them. The aim of the book is to give a solid and comparative insight into Europeanization focusing on effective outcomes in a systematic way. This book analyzes the period 1986-2008 and includes an introduction, a global overview of European legislative activities which set the background for Europeanization of national legislatures, 9 country contributions (8 EU member states + Switzerland) including systematic, comparative and standardized data, tables and figures, and a conclusion with a comparative analysis of the European and domestic reasons for Europeanization. All national contributions conclude that Europeanization of national legislation is much more limited than assumed in the literature and public debate. It is limited to 10 to 30% of laws (depending on the country), far less than the 80% predicted by Jacques Delors and mentioned daily by medias and public opinion leaders to demonstrate EU domination on member states. Beside that general statement, the various chapters propose a deep insight on EU constraint over national legislation, providing much information on the kind of laws and policies that are Europeanized, the evolution of this process through time, the impact of Europeanization on the balance of powers and the relations between majority and opposition at national level, the strategies developed by national institutions in that context, and many other issues, making the book of interest to academics and policy-makers concerned with Europeanization and national legislation.
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Chapter 1: Delors ́ Myth: The Scope and Impact of the Europeanization of Law Production; Understanding Europeanization; The Empirical Approach of the Europeanization of Law Production; Aims and Structure of the Book; References; Chapter 2: EU Legislative Activities and Domestic Politics; EU Legislation over Time; Implementation of Directives; Conclusion; Appendix: Policy fields over time; References; Chapter 3: Measuring the ``Europeanization ́ ́ of Austrian Law-Making: Legal and Contextual Factors; Introduction; What Legislation Can Tell Us About ``Europeanization ́ ́
The Austrian Legal System and ProcessFederalism; Legal Tradition; The Formal Transposition Process; Measuring Europeanization by the Study of Lawmaking; Measuring Legal Europeanization; Manual Coding; Automatic Computer-Assisted Coding; Results; Europeanization of Laws; Europeanization of Law-Making Measured by Keyword Search; Europeanization of Laws by Policy Area; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: The Minor Impact of EU on Legislation in Finland; Introduction; The Impact of Europe on Domestic Laws; Empirical Analysis; Discussion; References
Chapter 5: Are French Laws Written in Brussels? The Limited Europeanization of Law-Making in France and Its ImplicationsLaw-Making, EU Decision-Making, and Parliament Under the Fifth Republic; The Growing but Limited Europeanization of the French Laws; Operational Definitions of the Europeanization of French Laws; Europeanization as a Reference to the EU: The EU Link; Europeanization as a Constraint; The Scope of the Europeanization of French Laws; Dynamics of EU Directives and the Constrained Europeanization of Domestic Laws in France
The Pattern of Europeanization and French Domestic InstitutionsThe Effect of Europeanization on Domestic Institutions: No Double Penalty for the French Parliament; Europeanization and the Domestic Political System: Behind the Myth of a European Policy Dictator, the Reality of a New Veto Pl...; Conclusion; References; Chapter 6: Does Europeanization Change Executive-Parliament Relations? Executive Dominance and Parliamentary Responses in Germ...; Introduction; The German Legislature: Mandatory and Non-Mandatory Domestic Laws
Europeanization of the German legislature: A Cross-Validated AnalysisConsequences for Governmental Agenda-Setting Power and Parliamentary Scrutiny; References; Chapter 7: Leading Governments and Unwilling Legislators: The European Union and the Italian Law Making (1987-2006); Introduction; The Recent Evolution of Italian Law-Making; The Decrease in the Number of Adopted Laws; The Strengthening of the Government ́s Law-Making Role; The Europeanization of the Italian legislative Output; Laws Adopted in Parliament; Legislative Decrees
How the Evolution of Italian Law-Making Interacts with European Link
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In ten years 80 per cent of the legislation related to economics, maybe also to taxes and social aff airs, will be of Community origin.” This declaration has been largely quoted, paraphrased and deformed by different authors, creating a persistent myth according to which 80% of the legislative activity of the national legislatures would soon be reduced to the simple transposition of European norms”. This book addresses the topic of the scope and impact of Europeanization on national legislation, as a part of the Europeanization debate which raises normative concerns linked to the “democratic deficit” debate. The state of the art shows that there are many assumptions and claims on how European integration may affect national legislation and, more generally, domestic governance but that there is a lack of solid and comparative data to test them. The aim of the book is to give a solid and comparative insight into Europeanization focusing on effective outcomes in a systematic way. This book analyzes the period 1986-2008 and includes an introduction, a global overview of European legislative activities which set the background for Europeanization of national legislatures, 9 country contributions (8 EU member states + Switzerland) including systematic, comparative and standardized data, tables and figures, and a conclusion with a comparative analysis of the European and domestic reasons for Europeanization. All national contributions conclude that Europeanization of national legislation is much more limited than assumed in the literature and public debate. It is limited to 10 to 30% of laws (depending on the country), far less than the 80% predicted by Jacques Delors and mentioned daily by medias and public opinion leaders to demonstrate EU domination on member states. Beside that general statement, the various chapters propose a deep insight on EU constraint over national legislation, providing much information on the kind of laws and policies that are Europeanized, the evolution of this process through time, the impact of Europeanization on the balance of powers and the relations between majority and opposition at national level, the strategies developed by national institutions in that context, and many other issues, making the book of interest to academics and policy-makers concerned with Europeanization and national legislation.
Europäische Union.
Political science.
Public international law.
European Economic Community literature.
Political Science.
Public International Law .
European Integration.
Studies in public choice