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The Role of Political Parties in the European Union

At the national level, political parties play an important role in making representative democracy work. They help to aggregate and communicate policy preferences, link decision-making between different legislative bodies and hold politicians accountable. In the European Union, however, the electoral connection is weak. This casts doubt on the impact of partisan politics at the European level. Are political parties able to fulfil their role as transmission belts ensuring political accountability and consistent decision-making in the European Union? To answer this question we look at the micro foundations of partisan politics in the European Union.

The contributions in this volume all depart from a common theoretical framework but use a wide range of empirical data and research designs, covering qualitative process-tracing, elite interview and large-N quantitative analysis. Moreover, they examine party effects in the electoral and legislative arena. Finally, the volume covers all European institutions: the Commission, the Council of the European Union, the European Council and the European Parliament. The findings enhance our understanding of the workings of decision-making in Brussels, add to the debate on the EU democratic deficit, and highlight the usefulness of drawing upon insights from the literature on Comparative Politics when studying the European Union.

This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

Bjrn Lindberg recently received his Ph.D from the Department of Government at Uppsala University, Sweden. He has published on legislative decision-making and party politics in the EU.

Anne Rasmussen is Assistant Professor at the Department of Public administration at Leiden University (NL). She has published on EU decision-making, the role of the EU institutions and institutional change in the EU.

Andreas Warntjen is Assistant Professor of European and International Politics at the Department of Political Science and Research Methods at the University ofTwente (NL). He has published on EU legislative politics and the legislative effect of the Council Presidency.

Journal of European Public Policy Series

Series Editor: Jeremy Richardson is a Professor at Nuffield College, Oxford University

This series seeks to bring together some of the finest edited works on European Public Policy. Reprinting from Special Issues of the Journal of European Public Policy, the focus is on using a wide range of social sciences approaches, both qualitative and quantitative, to gain a comprehensive and definitive understanding of Public Policy in Europe.

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Reforming the European Commission
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International Influence Beyond Conditionality
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The Role of Political Parties in the European Union
Edited by Bjrn Lindberg, Anne Rasmussen and Andreas Warntjen

The Role of Political Parties in the
European Union

Edited by
Bjrn Lindberg, Anne Rasmussen and
Andreas Warntjen

First published 2010
by Routledge
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2010 Taylor & Francis

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Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Group, UK

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
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ISBN10: 0-415-49928-3
ISBN13: 978-0-415-49928-6

Contents

Bjrn Lindberg, Anne Rasmussen and Andreas Warntjen

Johan Hellstrm

Arndt Wonka

Anne Rasmussen

Bjrn Lindberg

Sara Hagemann and Bjorn Hoyland

Jonas Tallberg and Karl Magnus Johansson

Andreas Warntjen, Simon Hix and Christophe Crombez

Simon Hix

Christophe Crombez is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Leuven, Belgium, and Stanford University, USA.

Sara Hagemann is a Lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

Johan Hellstrm is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Political Science, Ume University, Sweden.

Simon Hix is Professor of European and Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

Bjorn Hoyland is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway.

Bjrn Lindberg recently received his Ph.D from the Department of Government at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Karl Magnus Johansson is Associate Professor of Political Science at Sdertrn University College, Sweden.

Anne Rasmussen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Administration, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Jonas Tallberg is Associate Professor of Political Science at Stockholm University, Sweden.

Andreas Warntjen is Assistant Professor of European and International Politics in the Department of Political Science and Research Methods at the University of Twente, The Netherlands.

Arndt Wonka is a post-doctoral researcher at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) and affiliated as co-project leader to the Mannheim Centre for European Studies (MZES), Germany.

Party politics as usual? The role of political parties in EU legislative decision-making

BJRN LINDBERG, ANNE RASMUSSEN AND ANDREAS WARNTJEN

Scholars have raised doubts about the ability of political parties to fulfil their traditional role as transmission belts between citizens and legislators in the EU. We discuss how the different institutional environment of the EU affects the assumptions and predictions of theories of political parties developed for the national context and discuss how political parties can influence EU legislative decision-making. We distinguish between partisan effects in the electoral and legislative arena, and argue for a clear distinction between the effects of national parties, national party delegations and transnational party groups when studying EU party politics. The empirical literature shows that, whereas parties play a role in most institutions, they are not always the dominant players, and their effect varies both across and within these institutions.

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