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Chapter 7 - Integration Parliaments in Europe and Latin America: Explaining Variations

from Part II - Political Culture, Identity Politics and Political Contention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2012

Juliana Erthal
Affiliation:
Tübingen University
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Integration Parliaments in Europe and Latin America

In the past decades, European efforts to build a strong supranational organization have been successful in many ways. Among other accomplishments, Europeans have implemented a monetary union and a supranational decision-making system. While in the “Old Continent” progresses in integration are often the target of criticism by both pro- and anti-Europe groups, on the other side of the Atlantic policymakers look at the European Union (EU) as an uncontested example of achievement. Since the first attempts to translate Latin American integration projects into institutions, the design of the EU has been more than a reference, serving as a source for institutional imitation.

It has been said that the empowerment of the European Parliament (EP) over the years would not have been possible had the founding members of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) not included a parliamentary institution in the European institutional structure in the first place (Rittberger 2005, 73). While this is true, evidence from integration parliaments in Latin America show that integration parliaments (IPs) can have very different fates after their creation: not only can they be empowered, they can also stagnate or even lose some of their initial powers. Even though the creators of Latin American IPs have attempted to follow the European model, the overwhelming distance between the actual functioning and the accomplishments of these different organizations is remarkable.

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Development and Semi-Periphery
Post-Neoliberal Trajectories in South America and Central Eastern Europe
, pp. 141 - 162
Publisher: Anthem Press
Print publication year: 2012

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