Democratic Governance and European Integration : Linking Societal and State Processes of Democracy, Hardcover by Holzhacker, Ronald (EDT); Albaek, Erik (EDT), ISBN 1845424484, ISBN-13 9781845424480, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UKThe 13 chapters of this volume analyze the impact of the formation and development of the European Union on national institutions and domestic political processes, as well as issues of democratic representation and legitimacy within the emerging European multi-level system of governance. Editors Holzhacker (political science, U. of Twente, the Netherlands) and Albæk (political science, U. of Southern Denmark, Denmark) present the papers in two sections that first discuss opinion formation and interest intermediation in multilevel governance and then explore executive decision-making and national parliamentary scrutiny. In the first section, papers examine such topics as viability and framing of European integration in the media, Europeanization of expert references in Danish daily newspapers, and interest organizations and European integration. The second section in includes discussion of changing capacities of national executives, strategic behavior of national parliaments, the Danish European Affairs Committee in a party group perspective, emulating the French model of parliamentary scrutiny of European Union legislation in southern Europe, and the role of Economic Commission for Europe parliaments in European integration. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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