Abstract
AbstractSince the Treaty of Lisbon, national parliamentary chambers in the European Union can issue reasoned opinions on legislative proposals by the European Commission. These individual reasoned opinions lead to a review if at least one third of all chambers raise such concerns. Hence, coordination among parliaments is key. Using advances in inferential network analysis, this article infers the underlying diffusion pathways among national parliaments through which chambers are related to each other in their decisions to raise subsidiarity concerns. The emerging diffusion network is characterised by a compartmentalization into communities of European Union budget net contributor and net recipient countries. This descriptive finding has implications for the institutional effectiveness and aspired democratic legitimacy of the Early Warning System. A multivariate statistical network analysis confirms that diffusion occurs among net recipient countries and that weak institutions follow the lead of strong institutions in the Early Warning System.
Highlights
Konstanzer Online-Publikations-System (KOPS) URL: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-2-rpiz9kkkdu106The Treaty of Lisbon introduced stronger regional and national institutions into the European polity in December 2009
How can we identify opinion leaders and stable diffusion patterns? As in other diffusion studies, we need two crucial pieces of information: Who did something with respect to a given policy/legislative proposal (Requirement 1), and at which point in time (Requirement 2)? Both pieces of information are available for the Early Warning System (EWS) and can be generated for every legislative proposal for the whole time period for every chamber
The Early Warning System was introduced to reduce the democratic deficit of the Union, giving elected national representatives an additional venue to participate in day-to-day legislative politics
Summary
The Treaty of Lisbon introduced stronger regional and national institutions into the European polity in December 2009. One of these institutions is the Early Warning System (EWS), which gives national parliaments the opportunity to scrutinise, and raise subsidiarity concerns about, legislative proposals made by the European Commission. Through the EWS, national parliamentary chambers can achieve that the Commission has to review a legislative proposal if the parliaments reach a threshold of one third of all chambers voicing concerns. This process is called a yellow card..
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