Practices of Interparliamentary Coordination in International Politics

Ben Crum is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He works on the political theory of European integration. He is the author of Learning from the EU Constitutional Treaty (Routledge 2012) and of academic articles in, among others, the Journal of Common Market Studies, the Journal of European Public Policy, European Union Politics, the European Political Science Review, and the European Law Journal. He studied in Amsterdam, London and Berlin, and holds a PhD from the European University Institute, Florence. Before joining the Vrije Universiteit he worked at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels, the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy in The Hague, and policy consultancy firm Research voor Beleid in Leiden. John Erik Fossum is Professor in Political Science at ARENA Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway. He works on questions of democracy and constitutionalism in Europe and Canada. He is co-director of the research project NORCONE (The Norwegian Constitution in a Changing European Context) and former substitute coordinator for RECON (6th FP) and CIDEL (5th FP). He is president of ECSA Norway and vice-president of NACS. He has authored and edited eleven books and has published articles in such journals as Comparative European Politics, Constellations, Ethnicities, European Journal of Political Theory, European Journal of Social Theory, European Law Journal, European Political Science Review, European Review, International Political Science Review, International Journal, Journal of Civil Society, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Integration, Regulation and Governance, and the Supreme Court Law Review.

contents List of Figures and Tables vii List of Abbreviations ix Contributors xiii Acknowledgements xvii Chapter One: Practices of Interparliamentary Coordination in International Politics: The European Union and Beyond Ben Crum and John Erik Fossum 1 Part I. National Scrutiny Mechanisms in the EU Chapter Two: Learning from the Best? Interparliamentary Networks and the Parliamentary Scrutiny of EU Decision-Making Aron Buzogany 17 Chapter Three: Cooperation among National Parliaments: An Effective Contribution to EU Legitimation? Viera Knutelska 33 Chapter Four: Deliberation in the Multilevel Parliamentary Field: The Seasonal Workers Directive as a Test Case Ian Cooper 51 Part II. Interparliamentary Interaction in Different Policy Domains Chapter Five: Interparliamentary Coordination in Single Market PolicyMaking: The EU Services Directive Ben Crum and Eric Miklin 71 Chapter Six: Coordination Practices in the Parliamentary Control of Justice and Home Affairs Agencies: The Case of Europol Daniel Ruiz de Garibay 87 Chapter Seven: Parliaments at the Water's Edge: The EU's Naval Mission Atalanta Dirk Peters, Wolfgang Wagner and Cosima Glahn 105 vi practices of interparliamentary coordination in international politics Chapter Eight: An Asymmetric Two-Level Game: Parliaments in the Euro Crisis Arthur Benz 125 Part III. Actor Perspectives Chapter Nine: EU Parliaments After the Treaty of Lisbon: Towards a Parliamentary Field? Johannes Pollak and Peter Slominski 143 Chapter Ten: The `Back Door' to National Politics: The French Greens and the 2009 European Parliament Elections Yoav Shemer-Kunz 161 Chapter Eleven: Women in Europe: Recruitment, Practices and Social Institutionalisation of the European Political Field Willy Beauvallet and Sebastien Michon 175 Part IV. Beyond the EU Chapter Twelve: Who is Coming? Attendance Patterns in the NATO and WEU Parliamentary Assemblies Wolfgang Wagner 195 Chapter Thirteen: The Institutionalisation of a Parliamentary Dimension of the WTO Hilmar Rommetvedt 213 Part V. Democratic Implications Chapter Fourteen: The European Union: Parliamentary Wasteland or Parliamentary Field? Christopher Lord 235 Chapter Fifteen: Conclusion: Towards a Democratic Multilevel Parliamentary Field? Ben Crum and John Erik Fossum 251 Bibliography 269 List of Interviewees 297 Index 299