Degressively proportional representation in the European Parliament: European Union law versus reality

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Degressively proportional representation in the European Parliament: European Union law versus reality

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Degressively proportional representation in the European Parliament: European Union law versus reality

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50601 - Political science

Projekt

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Návaznosti

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Parliaments, Estates and Representation

ISSN

0260-6755

e-ISSN

1947-248X

Svazek periodika

44

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

190-207

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85184454716