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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      18 December 2009
      06 December 2001
      ISBN:
      9780511606083
      9780521806251
      9780521000796
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511606083
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.502kg, 282 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.386kg, 282 Pages
      • Subjects:
      UN and International Organisations, Law, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
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    Subjects:
    UN and International Organisations, Law, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
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    This book examines the impact of increased legislative power and political authority on the internal development of the European Parliament and the supranational party group system. This is done through an analysis of changes in the hierarchical structures that regulate the internal organization of both the EP as a whole and the individual party groups. In addition, the changing pattern of coalition formation between party groups across time and legislative procedure is analyzed. The trends of internal development examined suggest that the increases in EP power that have occurred since the creation of the cooperation procedure by the Single European Act in 1987 have caused a fundamental shift in the character of the European Parliament as a legislative institution. Prior to 1987 the European Parliament, despite direct election and several small attempts to increase its powers, served primarily as a chamber of debate where much more was discussed than accomplished.

    Reviews

    ‘This book provides a major contribution to the rapidly growing literature on the internal development of the European Parliament … should be required reading for any scholar of the European Parliament or of legislative development.’

    Source: The Journal of Legislative Studies

    ‘Extremely well written, and with a highly original approach, the book is compulsory reading for both EU and legislative scholars.’

    Source: West European Politics

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