Andrea Cofelice

Parliamentary Institutions in Regional and International Governance (eBook, PDF)

Functions and Powers

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume offers an original and theoretically grounded conceptualization and measurement of international parliamentary institutions and their role in ensuring the accountability of regional international organizations. Through a comparative analysis of the establishment, evolution, institutional organization, oversight and policymaking functions of 22 parliamentary institutions, mainly from European, African and Latin American regional international organizations, the book serves a twofold purpose. First, it allows assessment of the extent to which parliamentary institutions have (measurable) influence on the outcome of regional organizations' decision-making processes. Second, drawing on the literature on new institutionalism and comparative regionalism, the volume investigates the conditions under which the influence of parliamentary institutions is expected to grow, thus advancing the understanding of the variation and development of this poorly explored type of international institution.

The book is aimed at scholars of global governance, international organization and comparative regionalism, and will also be of interest to parliamentarians and parliamentary practitioners from national and international institutions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429839030
• Artikelnr.: 54252720

Autorenporträt

Andrea Cofelice (PhD, University of Siena, Italy, 2015) is a research fellow at the Centre for Studies on Federalism in Turin, Italy. He is a member of the research team on 'International Democracy Watch' and an editor of the Italian Yearbook of Human Rights (Peter Lang, 2011-). He has published in several edited books on comparative regionalism and parliamentary diplomacy, and in journals including Italian Political Science Review, European Foreign Affairs Review, Mediterranean Quarterly, and The Hague Journal of Diplomacy.

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables and figures Abbreviations and Acronyms Introduction What are
the conditions? A review of the literature on parliamentary empowerment
New institutionalism Comparative regionalism Concluding remarks: two
propositions on the empowerment of international parliamentary institutions
References Institutional features: appointment, representation and internal
organisation Origins of parliamentary institutions and the "time factor"
Institutional setting of regional international organisations Size and
distribution of seats of parliamentary institutions Selection modalities of
members of parliamentary institutions Time spent in plenary sessions and
internal organisation Groupings in the assemblies and required majorities
Concluding remarks: what do international parliamentary institutions
represent? References Parliamentary functions and powers Assessing the
strength of parliamentary institutions: towards a "parliamentary powers
index" Policy-making: consultative and legislative functions Budgetary
functions Accountability: oversight and appointment functions Concluding
remarks: an overview of parliamentary functions and powers References
Explaining the empowerment of international parliamentary institutions Two
main roads: between normative spillover and spurred emulation Alternative
strategies? The role of informal rules, inter-institutional alliances and
the "parliamentarist ideology" References Conclusion Appendix - Primary
sources