Format:
1 Online-Ressource (287 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781509925704
Series Statement:
Parliamentary Democracy in Europe Ser
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Intro -- Table of Contents -- PART I: CONSTITUTIONAL FEATURES OF PARLIAMENTARY OVERSIGHT IN EUROPE -- 1. Introduction: Oversight of the Executives. A European Approach -- I. What Parliamentary Oversight Serves: In Search of a Definition -- II. Placing the Oversight Function in the European Constitutional Legal Order -- III. A Selective Approach to Parliamentary Oversight -- IV. The Fortune of the Oversight Function in Scholarship -- 2. Oversight as a Relational Function Linking Parliaments to Executives -- I. At the Origins of Parliamentarism in Europe -- II. Oversight or Scrutiny? A Comparison with Presidential Experiences -- III. Oversight in Contemporary European Forms of Government -- IV. The Influence of the Executive-Parties Dimension -- V. Oversight Serving the Requirements of Executive Accountability -- VI. The Problem of Enforcement: Comparing Hard and Soft Oversight -- 3. Instances of Parliamentary Oversight: In Dialogue with Other Parliamentary Functions -- I. Parliamentary Appraisal of Executive Appointments in Government Formation: Oversight or Elective Function? -- II. Ex Ante Parliamentary Oversight: Setting the Political Direction -- III. The Ex Post Dimension of Parliamentary Oversight: Post-Legislative Scrutiny and the Evaluation of Public Policies -- IV. Oversight Through Parliamentary Information: Publicity and Communication -- 4. Classifying Oversight Tools According to Parliamentary Practice -- I. Pairing Oversight Tools and Procedures According to Parliamentary Practice -- II. Oversight: A Realm for the Plenary or for Parliamentary Committees? -- III. Informative Tools Instrumental to Oversight -- IV. Oversight Tools Preceding Government Action -- V. Questioning the Government: A Hybrid Oversight Tool -- VI. Oversight Tools Following Government Action
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5. Parliamentary Oversight in Bicameral Systems: What Role for Upper Houses? -- I. Oversight in Symmetric Bicameralism: The Informal Search for Influence by the Italian Senate -- II. When Asymmetric Bicameralism Does Not Hinder the Influence Capacity of the Upper House: Oversight by the House of Lords -- III. Oversight as a Means of (Administrative) Territorial Influence in the German Bundesrat -- IV. Explaining National Variations in Upper Houses' Parliamentary Oversight -- PART II: INSTANCES OF PARLIAMENTARY OVERSIGHT IN SECTORIAL POLICY FIELDS -- 6. Parliaments in International Affairs: Fostering Democracy Through the Oversight of Government Action -- I. Introduction. The Role of Parliaments in International Affairs: Overcoming the Idea of 'Executive Dominance' -- II. How Parliaments Oversee Government Foreign Policy at the Domestic Level: A Comparative Overview -- III. Political Versus Judicial Interpretation of the Executive-Legislative Balance of Powers in International Affairs -- IV. The Non-Binding Potential of Parliamentary Oversight in International Affairs -- 7. Parliamentary Oversight in the EU Constitutional Dimension: The Polycentric Paradigm -- I. Parliamentary Oversight of the EU 'Fragmented' Executive -- II. The Oversight Module Centred on the European Parliament -- III. Indirect Oversight by National Parliaments and National Forms of Government -- IV. Filling the Gaps of Parliamentary Oversight Through Interparliamentary Cooperation -- V. The Hybridisation of Parliamentary Oversight in the EU -- 8. Parliamentary Oversight of Budget: A Trade-Off with Budgetary Decision-Making? -- I. How Parliaments Relate to Budgeting -- II. Parliamentary Oversight of Budget: Alternative Models -- III. The Impact of European Economic Governance
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IV. The Trade-Off between Budgetary Decision-Making and Oversight: Unchallenged by the European Parliament -- 9. Conclusions: From Law-Making to Oversight? A Concrete Perspective for European Parliamentarism -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Griglio, Elena Parliamentary Oversight of the Executives London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,c2020 ISBN 9781509925681
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Europa
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Nationalstaat
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Regierung
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Parlament
;
Kontrolle
