Degressively proportional representation in the European Parliament: European Union law versus reality
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02606755.2024.2308350" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02606755.2024.2308350</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02606755.2024.2308350" target="_blank" >10.1080/02606755.2024.2308350</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Degressively proportional representation in the European Parliament: European Union law versus reality
Original language description
As the European Parliament is the first transnational representative body based on the Member States representation, the apportionment of seats among the European Union Member States may be a relevant issue. This article is conceived as an idiographic case study and presents an analysis of the composition of the European Parliament in the territorial representation perspective. According to the 2007 Lisbon Treaty, there should be degressively proportional representation in the European Parliament. Following that existing EU legislation implies an uneven representation of citizens in the European Parliament across the EU Member States, this study pursues the following two goals. Firstly, it seeks to quantify malapportionment (the degressive proportionality principle), i.e. distortion of the proportional representation of the Member States (malapportionment) and under-/over-representation of individual Member States, in European elections since 1979 when the direct elections of MEPs were introduced. Secondly, it aims to answer whether there has in fact been a degressively proportional representation in the European Parliament. This article concludes that malapportionment has stabilized at fourteen to fifteen per cent of the total seats since the 2004 European election, but there has been no degressively proportional representation in the European Parliament since 2004.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Parliaments, Estates and Representation
ISSN
0260-6755
e-ISSN
1947-248X
Volume of the periodical
44
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
190-207
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85184454716