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Bureaucratic Rent-Seeking in the European Union

Brandt, Urs Steiner; Svendsen, Gert Tinggaard - 2003

institutional position of the Commission, which runs the budget, and the weak institutional position of the EU Parliament, which …

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European Monetary Union reform preferences of French and German parliamentarians

Blesse, Sebastian; Boyer, Pierre C.; Heinemann, Friedrich; … - 2019

We analyze data from an author-conducted survey of members of the French and German parliaments on European Monetary Union reform preferences. We consider three potential drivers of preferences: nationality, ideology, and personal characteristics. For European Monetary Union policies like...

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Transparency in Parliamentary Voting

Benesch, Christine; Bütler, Monika; Hofer, Katharina E. - 2015

We use a change in the voting procedures of one of the two chambers of the Swiss parliament to explore how transparency …

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Government vs opposition voting in the Finnish parliament Eduskunta since World War II

Pajala, Antti - In: European Journal of Government and Economics (EJGE) 2 (2013) 1, pp. 41-58

studies analysing government-opposition voting in the Finnish parliament Eduskunta were published during the 1960s and 1970s …

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A disproportionality bias in the bureau of the regional assembly of Madrid

de la Cruz Vicente, Omar; Tomé Bermejo, Fernando; … - In: Games 12 (2021) 4, pp. 1-25

This paper analyses the voting behavior of the parliamentary groups in the Regional Assembly of Madrid to appoint the Bureau, its representative body, in all the legislatures since its inception (1983-2021). To this end, the actual result of the voting is compared with the mock result attained...

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No Countries for Old Technology Assessment? Sketching the Efforts and Opportunities to Establish Parliamentary TA in Spain and Portugal

Böhle, Knud; Moniz, António - In: Technikfolgenabschätzung – Theorie und Praxis 24 (2015) 1, pp. 29-44

If the question is whether there is a parliamentary technology assessment (PTA) unit in Portugal or Spain, the clear answer is that there is still no such unit at the central state level at the present time, neither in Portugal nor in Spain. The question then has to be modified addressing...

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The Effects of Electoral Institutions in Rwanda: Why Proportional Representation Supports the Authoritarian Regime

Stroh, Alexander - 2009

While much has been written about the special design of Rwanda's judiciary in order to handle the aftermath of the genocide in 1994, other institutional actions resulting from the 2003 constitution have rarely been addressed in research. However, the second (partial) par-liamentary elections in...

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Full transparency of politicians' actions does not increase the quality of political representation

Stadelmann, David; Portmann, Marco; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2013

We identify the impact of transparency in political decision -making on the quality of political representation with a difference- in-difference strategy. The quality of political representation is measured by observed divergence of parliamentary decisions from revealed voter preferences on the...

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The Comitology Game: European Policymaking with Parliamentary Involvement

Steunenberg, Bernard; Schmidtchen, Dieter - 2000

This paper discusses institutional reforms that might strengthen the role of the European Parliament in the … determined by the current comitology procedures, and how this balance would change if the role of the European Parliament were …

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Democratisation versus accountability - should the European Parliament be given more powers?

Schwager, Robert - 1999

power were transferred from the Council of Ministers to the European Parliament. On the one hand, citizens benefit from a … greater transparency in the Parliament´s debates compared to the Council´s decisions. On the other hand, a powerful European … Parliament would be less accountable to the voters of each state since in the European election each state is only decisive with …

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