Parliamentary Agency and Regional Integration in Europe and Beyond
This comparative book analyses the development of regional integration parliaments in three different continents of the world.
It assesses and compares the expansion and current stage of institutional development of three regional assemblies the European Parliament, the Pan-African Parliament and the Mercosur Parliament for Latin America. Looking in particular at parliamentary agency, it aims to answer why and to what extent, these regional parliaments have developed differently in terms of their functions and legislative competences? Drawing on new and original empirical data, official documents, and secondary literature, the book focuses on the critical junctures in the trajectory of the three assemblies and argues that parliamentary agency has impacted the institutional development of the parliaments leading to diverse paths of regional parliamentarisation.
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of global and regional governance, comparative regionalism, European Union studies, legislative studies and more broadly to international relations, history, law, political economy, and international organisations.
Bruno Theodoro Luciano is a Research Fellow at the San Tiago Dantas Graduate Program in International Relations, So Paulo State University, Brazil.
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Parliamentary Agency and Regional Integration in Europe and Beyond
The Logic of Regional Parliaments
Bruno Theodoro Luciano
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Names: Luciano, Bruno Theodoro, author.
Title: Parliamentary agency and regional integration in Europe and beyond: the logic of regional parliaments/Bruno Theodoro Luciano.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2022. | Series: Routledge/UACES contemporary European studies | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021007942 (print) | LCCN 2021007943 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367695255 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367695422 (paperback) | ISBN 9781003142201 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: RegionalismPolitical aspects. | Legislative bodies. | European Parliament. | MERCOSUR (Organization). Parlamento. | African Union. Pan African Parliament.
Classification: LCC JF197 .L84 2022 (print) | LCC JF197 (ebook) | DDC 328dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021007942
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Contents
List of figures and tables
2 Global regionalism and the parliamentarisation of regional integration
3 Historical institutionalism, parliamentary agency, and comparative regionalism
4 Parliamentary agency making a difference: The institutional empowerment of the European Parliament
5 When proactivity decreases: The institutional development of the MERCOSUR Parliament
6 The limits to regional parliamentarisation: Establishing a Pan-African Parliament
7 Parliamentary agency in comparative perspective
8 Conclusions
- Half Title
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- 2 Global regionalism and the parliamentarisation of regional integration
- 3 Historical institutionalism, parliamentary agency, and comparative regionalism
- 4 Parliamentary agency making a difference: The institutional empowerment of the European Parliament
- 5 When proactivity decreases: The institutional development of the MERCOSUR Parliament
- 6 The limits to regional parliamentarisation: Establishing a Pan-African Parliament
- 7 Parliamentary agency in comparative perspective
- 8 Conclusions
List of figures and tables
Figures
3.1 Institutional development of parliamentary institutions over time
5.1 MERCOSURs organisational chart
6.1 The African Unions organisational chart
Tables
2.1 Old vs new regionalism
3.1 Typology of parliamentary agency (PA)
3.2 Institutional configurations of the regional parliaments
3.3 Level of parliamentary competences
4.1 Composition of the European convention (20012003)
5.1 Citizens representation inside Parlasur
7.1 Level of parliamentary agency over time
Acknowledgements
The completion of this book would not be possible without the assistance of many colleagues and friends who always provided me the academic and emotional support needed, to not give up and to move on during these past years.
My special gratitude to Marco Vieira and Isabelle Hertner. Their trust in my capacity and their incentive to be bolder about my research contributions were fundamental to overcome all the setbacks encountered. To all my colleagues from the University of Birmingham, I thank for the coffees, chats and pints. I thank George Kyris, Julian Pnke, Sotirios Zartaloudis, and all the members of the European Studies Research Group for the very useful feedback provided on my project and draft chapters. At the University of Warwick, I am very grateful to Gabriel Siles-Brgge for insightful comments on the book project.