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The European Perspective: Transnational Party Groups in the 1989-94 European Parliament
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THE EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE

First published 1997 by Ashgate Publishing

Reissued 2018 by Routledge

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A Library of Congress record exists under LC control number: 97019090

ISBN 13: 978-1-138-34234-7 (hbk)

ISBN 13: 978-0-429-43979-7 (ebk)

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This book is a revised version of my doctoral thesis Party Group Behaviour in the European Parliament. The book is organised as follows.

The first chapter begins with a brief discussion on the role of the European Parliament and Europarties in the governance of the European Union. The literature review presents the state of scholarly research on the internal workings of the Strasbourg Parliament.

The theoretical framework is introduced in . contains the main research question that will be subjected to empirical investigation in later chapters. The final section concludes the chapter with a brief discussion on the balance between endogenous and exogenous preferences.

. the evolution of the EP party system, the institutional imperative of achieving legislative majorities, fractionalisation of the Parliament, and the voting power of the party groups in the 1979-1994 Parliament are investigated.

Voting behaviour analysis of the 1989-94 Parliament is in . the effect of legislative majority requirements on party cohesion and coalition behaviour is examined. The voting behaviour of the party groups on foreign affairs issues is investigated. The final section summarises the results, and ends with a brief discussion on the relevance of the findings to the party structure of the current Parliament.

. examines the level of MEPs questioning activity, and the variation between individual representatives. In the final section (5.10.) the findings are summarised, together with a brief discussion on the role and importance of parliamentary questions.

The first part of the concluding chapter serves as a summary of the arguments and results, with the second and final section analysing the future problems and prospects of Europarties.

Can we democratise international relations? Does transnational, or supranational, democracy work also in practice and not only in the minds of some political scientists? Interested in doing research on the democratisation of state-to-state relations, Professor Olavi Borg suggested to me in 1993 that I did postgraduate studies on the democratisation of the European Union and in particular on the European Parliament. I noticed that while there was an abundance of texts on the Parliament, surprisingly little research had been done on the individual members or the party groups in the Parliament. I thought that my contribution would not reduce the democratic deficit of the Union, but at least I could help reduce the existing deficit in our understanding of the way the Parliament works.

Several individuals deserve recognition for their valuable assistance during the past three years. I am greatly indebted to my two supervisors, Professor Olavi Borg and Associate Professor Matti Wiberg. Olavi Borg has supervised my work with much appreciated professionalism. His active interest in students progress is a delight for persons who need positive and open encouragement. Olavis experience in organisational matters made things much easier for me since I did not have to worry about the technical aspects or about arranging the necessary finances.

Without the help of Matti Wiberg the thesis would still be far from finished. His expertise, frank and insightful criticism, and always constructive comments were crucial factors in helping me to clarify and reconsider my own thoughts. We have discussed this work, among other things, in universities and bars in Turku and elsewhere in Europe. Finally, Matti put much effort into patiently reading various drafts of this work.

I am grateful to both external examiners, Professor Fulvio Attin and Dr David M. Farrell, who read the text carefully and made several suggestions for improvements. Their insightful comments have been duly incorporated into the work. Both have also at an earlier stage read parts of the text and kindly offered their assistance when I needed advice. My sincere thanks to both of them.

Various colleagues have discussed the project with me over the years. I would like to mention in particular David S. Bell, Karl Magnus Johansson, Robert Ladrech and Christopher Lord. The development of my ideas has benefited significantly from these conversations. Most of what is printed between these covers has been presented in numerous international conferences and national seminars. The comments I received during these meetings have substantially helped me in clarifying my arguments. Finally. Virpi Johansson at the Eurooppa-Instituutti in Turku assisted me in compiling the data and in tracing the right documents.

The research was facilitated by scholarships from the University of Tampere as part of the VAKAVA Graduate School programme and from Suomen Kulttuurirahasto.

This book is dedicated to my mother and father. Both have in their own special way contributed to my work. Their love, material support, and experience from academic life has been of immeasurable help throughout the often rather lonely and tiresome process of writing the thesis.

Tapio Raunio

Turku, 30 January 1997

CAP	Common Agricultural Policy
CDI	Technical Group of Co-ordination and Defence of Independent MEPs
CFSP	Common Foreign and Security Policy
COM	Communist and Allies Group
COREPER	Committee of the Permanent Representatives of the
Member States
CSPEC	Confederation of Socialist Parties of the European Community
EB	Eurobarometer
EC	European Community
ECSC	European Coal and Steel Community
ECU	European Currency Unit
EDA	European Democratic Alliance
EDG	European Democratic Group
EE	European elections
EEC	European Economic Community

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