Parliamentary Administrations in the European Union

Anna-Lena Högenauer is Research Assistant at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Luxembourg. She has published in a range of journals, including West European Politics, the European Political Science Review, Comparative European Politics and Regional and Federal Studies. Christine Neuhold is Professor within the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS), Maastricht University, the Netherlands. She has published widely on EU integration with a special focus on parliaments, unelected actors and committees.Thomas Christiansen is Jean Monnet Professor and Co-Director of the Maastricht Centre for European Governance at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. He is co-editor of the Journal of European Integration and co-editor of the European Administration Governance book series at Palgrave Macmillan.

• Introduction: Parliamentary Administrations and the Challenge of European IntegrationChapter 1: Conceptualizing the Role of Parliamentary AdministratorsChapter 2: Administrative Players in the European Parliament (with Mathias Dobbels)Chapter 3: Trans-National Bureaucratic Networks in the EU The Role of Parliamentary Officials in Inter-parliamentary Coordination and ControlChapter 4: The Administrations of National Parliaments in the EU: a Comparative Perspective and the Scrutiny of EU AffairsChapter 5: The Europeanization of National Parliamentary Administrations – Convergence or Divergence?Chapter 6: New Tasks, Limited Resources: Regional Parliamentary Administrations in EU AffairsConclusion