Transnational parties in the European Union
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Transnational parties in the European Union
（Leeds studies in democratization）
Ashgate, c1998
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Description
What can political parties contribute to the democratisation of the European Union? To help answer this question, this book brings together some of the most recent research into the role of transnational parties in the EUs representative politics. Case studies cover both the transnational party federations of national political parties and the various party groups in ten European Parliament (EP): the Party of European Socialists, the European People's Party, the groups of the right and the far left are all surveyed in detail. Other chapters examine various modes of party political behaviour at Union level: collaboration between national party leaderships; the process of forming a transnational political party; voting cohesion in the European Parliament; the interaction between the partisan and committee politics of the EP; the relationship between interest groups and party groups in the EP; and approaches to candidate selection. The overall effect is to illuminate what has so far been one of the less visible corners of the EUs political system: that in which political parties are already collaborating at transnational level to make decisions of considerable importance to the public.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Introduction
- Party fragmentation and discontinuity in the European Union
- The transnationalization of Party Politics
- Party networks, issue agendas and European Union governance
- A model transnational party? the party of European socialists
- The integration of the conservatives into the European People's Party
- The untidy right in the European Parliament
- The Confederal Group of the United European Left-Nordic Left
- Relations between interest groups and party groups in the European Union
- Cleavages and alignments in the European Parliament: MEP voting behaviour, 1989-1994
- Party groups in the European Parliament and the changing recruitment patterns of MEPs
- Party groups, EP committees and consensus democracy.
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