National Parliaments within the Enlarged European Union

<p>This book presents a wide range of perspectives on the role of national parliaments in EU politics and policy-making. Many accounts of the role of national parliaments portray them as passive victims of European integration. This study instead examines their role within the EU policy-making process looking at efforts to address perceived democratic and information 'deficits'.</p> <p>Bringing together leading scholars in the fields of European studies public policy analysis and legislative research this new volume provides: </p> <ul> <li>a thorough and wide-ranging synthetic analysis of the position of national parliaments within the EU policy-making structures</li> <li>a range of detailed country studies including for the first time an analysis of the new member state parliaments in Central and Eastern Europe</li> <li>an analysis of the significant changes to the position of national parliaments brought about by the recent Convention process and the provisions of the EU's Constitutional Treaty. </li></ul> <p>Making an important contribution to an emerging comparative literature on the parliamentary dimension to EU public policy-making <em>National Parliaments within the Enlarged European Union </em>will interest students and researchers in the fields of European integration EU politics and public policy analysis.</p>