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The European Parliaments
Committees

This book analyses the development of the European Parliaments (EP) committees and their relationship with national political parties in the light of the EPs increased legislative role over the last three decades.

The book argues that national parties have a greater incentive to care about what goes on in the EP given the growth in its legislative power. Because most of the EPs detailed legislative work takes place in its committees, national parties should be concerned about their involvement with the EPs committee system. Based on extensive original research, this book shows how the EPs committees have changed over time in response to legislative empowerment and analyses how national parties and individual MEPs use the committee system to further their policy goals. The book makes a theoretical contribution by providing an explanation for the variation in powers of committees between separated and fused systems of government and by adapting theories of legislative organization, developed in the context of the US Congress, to the EP.

The European Parliaments Committees will be of interest to students and scholars studying the European Parliament, EU institutions, policy-making, and the development of legislatures and political parties.

Richard Whitaker is Lecturer in European Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester, UK.

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The European Parliaments Committees

National party influence and legislative empowerment

Richard Whitaker

The committees of the European Parliament are highly influential in shaping EU legislation. Yet scholarly knowledge of how they function has remained limited until now. Theoretically informed and methodologically sophisticated, Whitakers excellent study explains the development of the EP committee system, paying special attention to how national parties and MEPs use committees for advancing their policy goals. Absolutely essential reading for students of EU policy-making and parliaments.

Professor Tapio Raunio, University of Tampere, Finland

In this first ever book-length treatment of the subject, Richard Whitaker provides the definitive account of how and why the European Parliaments committees matter both to the role of the members of the European Parliament and, more importantly, to their national party leaders. To understand the committees is to understand the parliament.

Professor David Farrell, University College Dublin

This is the most important book thus far on what happens inside the European Parliaments committees, which is where much of the legislative business of Brussels now takes place. Using innovative theoretical ideas and empirical techniques as well as new data, Whitaker finds that national parties are the key players inside the committees. This finding reinforces a particular conception of how EU politics works.

Professor Simon Hix, London School of Economics and Political Science

The European Parliaments
Committees

National party influence and
legislative empowerment

Richard Whitaker

First published 2011

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2011 Richard Whitaker

The right of Richard Whitaker to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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