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Ian Cooper - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the politicization of interParliamentary relations in the eu constructing and contesting the article 13 conference on economic governance
Comparative European Politics, 2016Co-Authors: Ian CooperAbstract:Article 13 of the Fiscal Treaty (2012) prompted the creation of an interParliamentary conference to discuss and oversee the EU’s post-crisis regime of economic governance. However, the first meeting of the ‘Article 13 Conference’, in October 2013, was beset by conflict. Surprisingly, the main cleavage was not a left–right debate over economic policy (for example, pro- versus anti-austerity), but a debate about the nature and purpose of the conference itself. This pitted the European Parliament (EP), preferring a weak conference with a narrow mandate, against a number of national Parliaments that preferred a strong conference with a broad mandate. This cleavage was apparent in a series of constitutional, institutional and procedural disagreements that arose over the course of the setting-up of the Article 13 Conference, many of which remained unresolved even after its second and third meetings, in January and September 2014. At the root of this struggle lay competing visions for the Parliamentary oversight of the EU: Should scrutiny be centralized in the EP, or should there be a new system of joint scrutiny involving the EP and national Parliaments together?
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a yellow card for the striker national Parliaments and the defeat of eu legislation on the right to strike
Journal of European Public Policy, 2015Co-Authors: Ian CooperAbstract:ABSTRACTIn May 2012 national Parliaments of the European Union (EU) issued their first yellow card under the Early Warning Mechanism of the Treaty of Lisbon. A sufficient number of them raised objections to a legislative proposal – the Monti II Regulation regarding the right to strike – that the Commission was required to review the proposal, which it subsequently withdrew. This outcome was, demonstrably, not a coincidence but the product of extensive interParliamentary co-ordination, enabled by the initiative of one determined Parliament (Denmark's Folketing), the opportunity provided by a well-timed interParliamentary meeting, and the network of national Parliament representatives in Brussels. A dynamic political process was set in motion in which a number of Parliaments joined the effort to obtain a yellow card by, in effect, ‘voting against' Monti II before the eight-week deadline. The episode shows that, despite claims to the contrary, national Parliaments have the capacity and willingness to use the...
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bicameral or tricameral national Parliaments and representative democracy in the european union
Journal of European Integration, 2013Co-Authors: Ian CooperAbstract:The Treaty of Lisbon defines the European Parliament and the Council as the principal institutional actors of ‘representative democracy’ in the EU, thus endorsing an essentially ‘bicameral’ model of EU democracy. In this model, national Parliaments focus their scrutiny on their governments’ conduct of EU affairs, but are not themselves EU-level actors. However, the Treaty of Lisbon also creates an Early Warning Mechanism which empowers national Parliaments to intervene collectively in the EU’s legislative process. This suggests a new, ‘tricameral’ model in which national Parliaments constitute the third chamber in a reconfigured representative system for the EU. This reconfiguration moves the EU away from traditional models of representative democracy and more towards a complex ‘demoi-cracy,’as it now has three bodies to represent the citizens, governments and peoples of Europe.
W Lena - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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women in Parliaments descriptive and substantive representation
Annual Review of Political Science, 2009Co-Authors: W LenaAbstract:This essay reviews two research programs. The first focuses on variations in the number of women elected to national Parliaments in the world (descriptive representation), and the second focuses on effects of women’s presence in Parliament (substantive representation). The theory of the politics of presence (Phillips 1995) provides reasons for expecting a link between descriptive and substantive representation. The safest position would be to say that results are “mixed” when it comes to empirical support for the theory of the politics of presence. However, when a large number of studies covering a wide set of indicators on the importance of gender in the Parliamentary process are piled together, the picture that emerges shows that female politicians contribute to strengthening the position of women’s interests.
Labatut Vincent - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Multiple Partitioning of Multiplex Signed Networks: Application to European Parliament Votes
'Elsevier BV', 2020Co-Authors: Arinik Nejat, Figueiredo Rosa, Labatut VincentAbstract:For more than a decade, graphs have been used to model the voting behavior taking place in Parliaments. However, the methods described in the literature suffer from several limitations. The two main ones are that 1) they rely on some temporal integration of the raw data, which causes some information loss, and/or 2) they identify groups of antagonistic voters, but not the context associated to their occurrence. In this article, we propose a novel method taking advantage of multiplex signed graphs to solve both these issues. It consists in first partitioning separately each layer, before grouping these partitions by similarity. We show the interest of our approach by applying it to a European Parliament dataset.Comment: Social Networks, 2020, 60, 83 - 10
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Multiple partitioning of multiplex signed networks: Application to European Parliament votes
Elsevier, 2020Co-Authors: Arinik Nejat, Figueiredo Rosa, Labatut VincentAbstract:International audienceFor more than a decade, graphs have been used to model the voting behavior taking place in Parliaments. However, the methods described in the literature suffer from several limitations. The two main ones are that 1) they rely on some temporal integration of the raw data, which causes some information loss; and/or 2) they identify groups of antagonistic voters, but not the context associated to their occurrence. In this article, we propose a novel method taking advantage of multiplex signed graphs to solve both these issues. It consists in first partitioning separately each layer, before grouping these partitions by similarity. We show the interest of our approach by applying it to a European Parliament dataset
Michael Shackleton - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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transforming representative democracy in the eu the role of the european Parliament
Journal of European Integration, 2017Co-Authors: Michael ShackletonAbstract:Parliaments are not generally conceived of as leaders. However, the European Parliament (EP) has played a pivotal leadership role in transforming the character of representative democracy at EU level. For much of its history the EP argued for a representative system based on competition between institutions operating on the principle of a separation of powers. However, following the Lisbon Treaty and the 2014 European elections, a rather different paradigm has grown in prominence, namely an embryonic form of Parliamentary government where executive power is channelled through the elected representatives of the people. The Parliament has thereby been at the centre of a transformative development in the structures of representation of the EU. The precise consequences of this change remain uncertain but it is likely to prove difficult to reverse the 2014 institutional revolution, with its profound implications for the debate about the character of representative government at EU level.
Arinik Nejat - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Multiple Partitioning of Multiplex Signed Networks: Application to European Parliament Votes
'Elsevier BV', 2020Co-Authors: Arinik Nejat, Figueiredo Rosa, Labatut VincentAbstract:For more than a decade, graphs have been used to model the voting behavior taking place in Parliaments. However, the methods described in the literature suffer from several limitations. The two main ones are that 1) they rely on some temporal integration of the raw data, which causes some information loss, and/or 2) they identify groups of antagonistic voters, but not the context associated to their occurrence. In this article, we propose a novel method taking advantage of multiplex signed graphs to solve both these issues. It consists in first partitioning separately each layer, before grouping these partitions by similarity. We show the interest of our approach by applying it to a European Parliament dataset.Comment: Social Networks, 2020, 60, 83 - 10
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Multiple partitioning of multiplex signed networks: Application to European Parliament votes
Elsevier, 2020Co-Authors: Arinik Nejat, Figueiredo Rosa, Labatut VincentAbstract:International audienceFor more than a decade, graphs have been used to model the voting behavior taking place in Parliaments. However, the methods described in the literature suffer from several limitations. The two main ones are that 1) they rely on some temporal integration of the raw data, which causes some information loss; and/or 2) they identify groups of antagonistic voters, but not the context associated to their occurrence. In this article, we propose a novel method taking advantage of multiplex signed graphs to solve both these issues. It consists in first partitioning separately each layer, before grouping these partitions by similarity. We show the interest of our approach by applying it to a European Parliament dataset
