Scrutiny by means of debate. The Dutch parliamentary debate about the Banking Union
Source
Acta Politica, 54, (2019), pp. 564-583ISSN
Annotation
14 mei 2018
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor
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Journal title
Acta Politica
Volume
vol. 54
Languages used
English (eng)
Page start
p. 564
Page end
p. 583
Subject
Europeanization of Policy and Law (EUROPAL); Institute for Management ResearchAbstract
This paper suggests a new approach to analyze the level of scrutiny of EU affairs provided by national parliaments. We develop a fine-grained measurement of how parliaments responded to the Eurozone crisis, by means of an in-depth analysis of the debate in the Dutch Lower House about the Banking Union. We use a mixed method design to determine whether parliament(arian)s succeeded in giving the government a hard time—by being informed on the topic, asking valid questions, knowing the state of play in Brussels, or by committing and confronting the government on their negotiation behavior. We uncover variation in the level of scrutiny that so far was neglected by the literature. Our analyses furthermore reveal a punctuated pattern of the level of scrutiny that is related to media attention, the varying sensitivity of different parts of the dossier and the proximity to relevant meetings in Brussels.
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