Actions Speak Louder Than Words? The Untapped Potential of V4 Parliaments in EU Affairs

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08883254211012770" target="_blank" >10.1177/08883254211012770</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Actions Speak Louder Than Words? The Untapped Potential of V4 Parliaments in EU Affairs

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This article offers the first ever comparative analysis of the involvement of V4 parliaments in the sphere of European Union (EU) affairs. Its underlying research objective is to determine what conditions V4&apos;s parliamentary participation in various EU-oriented activities such as domestic scrutiny of the government&apos;s EU policy, the political dialogue with the Commission, the Early Warning System for subsidiarity control, and the green card initiative. Based on the actual scrutiny output, parliamentary minutes, and data from questionnaires, we address the questions: (1) To what extent domestic legislatures act as autonomous as opposed to government-supporting actors in these arenas? (2) Do they mostly act as EU veto players, or try to contribute constructively to the EU policy-making process by bringing alternative policy ideas? (3) What are their motivations for engaging in direct dialogue with EU institutions in addition to domestic scrutiny? and (4) How MPs envisage their own EU-oriented roles? While the article reveals that V4 parliaments mostly act as gatekeepers in the sphere of EU affairs, it also casts a new light on the previous literature findings related to the EU-oriented performance of the Czech and Polish lower chambers. We conclude that, generally, V4 parliaments refrain from fully exploiting their relatively strong formal prerogatives in EU affairs-a fact that can be partly explained by the composition of their ruling majorities.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Actions Speak Louder Than Words? The Untapped Potential of V4 Parliaments in EU Affairs

Popis výsledku anglicky

This article offers the first ever comparative analysis of the involvement of V4 parliaments in the sphere of European Union (EU) affairs. Its underlying research objective is to determine what conditions V4&apos;s parliamentary participation in various EU-oriented activities such as domestic scrutiny of the government&apos;s EU policy, the political dialogue with the Commission, the Early Warning System for subsidiarity control, and the green card initiative. Based on the actual scrutiny output, parliamentary minutes, and data from questionnaires, we address the questions: (1) To what extent domestic legislatures act as autonomous as opposed to government-supporting actors in these arenas? (2) Do they mostly act as EU veto players, or try to contribute constructively to the EU policy-making process by bringing alternative policy ideas? (3) What are their motivations for engaging in direct dialogue with EU institutions in addition to domestic scrutiny? and (4) How MPs envisage their own EU-oriented roles? While the article reveals that V4 parliaments mostly act as gatekeepers in the sphere of EU affairs, it also casts a new light on the previous literature findings related to the EU-oriented performance of the Czech and Polish lower chambers. We conclude that, generally, V4 parliaments refrain from fully exploiting their relatively strong formal prerogatives in EU affairs-a fact that can be partly explained by the composition of their ruling majorities.

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50501 - Law

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

East European Politics and Societies

ISSN

0888-3254

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

35

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

15.7.2021

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

23

Strana od-do

1-23

Kód UT WoS článku

000675657800001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85110406172