Bruno Theodoro Luciano is a Research Fellow at the San Tiago Dantas Graduate Program in International Relations, São Paulo State University, Brazil.

• 1. Introduction 2. Global Regionalism and the Parliamentarisation of Regional Integration 3. Historical Institutionalism, Parliamentary Agency, and Comparative Regionalism 4. Parliamentary Agency Making a Difference: The Institutional Empowerment of the European Parliament 5. When Proactivity Decreases: The Institutional Development of the MERCOSUR Parliament 6. The Limits to Regional Parliamentarisation: Establishing the Pan-African Parliament 7. Parliamentary Agency in Comparative Perspective 8. Conclusions

Bruno Theodoro Luciano is a Research Fellow at the San Tiago Dantas Graduate Program in International Relations, São Paulo State University, Brazil.

• 1. Introduction 2. Global Regionalism and the Parliamentarisation of Regional Integration 3. Historical Institutionalism, Parliamentary Agency, and Comparative Regionalism 4. Parliamentary Agency Making a Difference: The Institutional Empowerment of the European Parliament 5. When Proactivity Decreases: The Institutional Development of the MERCOSUR Parliament 6. The Limits to Regional Parliamentarisation: Establishing the Pan-African Parliament 7. Parliamentary Agency in Comparative Perspective 8. Conclusions

Bruno Theodoro Luciano is a Research Fellow at the San Tiago Dantas Graduate Program in International Relations, São Paulo State University, Brazil.

• 1. Introduction 2. Global Regionalism and the Parliamentarisation of Regional Integration 3. Historical Institutionalism, Parliamentary Agency, and Comparative Regionalism 4. Parliamentary Agency Making a Difference: The Institutional Empowerment of the European Parliament 5. When Proactivity Decreases: The Institutional Development of the MERCOSUR Parliament 6. The Limits to Regional Parliamentarisation: Establishing the Pan-African Parliament 7. Parliamentary Agency in Comparative Perspective 8. Conclusions