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The Rise of International Parliaments : Strategic Legitimation in International Organizations.

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This book describes and explains the development of international parliamentary institutions and asks why international organizations establish parliamentary institutions without, however, granting them relevant decision-making powers.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schimmelfennig, Frank, 1963-
Other Authors: Winzen, Thomas, Lenz, Tobias, 1981-, Rocabert, Jofre, Crasnic, Loriana, Gherasimov, Cristina, Lipps, Jana, Mumford, Densua, 1985-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2021.
Series:Transformations in Governance Ser.
Subjects:
International agencies > Management.
International organization.
Legislative bodies.
Organisations internationales > Gestion.
Organisation internationale.
International agencies > Management
International organization
Legislative bodies
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • The Rise of International Parliaments: Strategic Legitimation in International Organizations
  • Copyright
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Table of Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • List of Abbreviations
  • List of Authors
  • PART I
  • 1: Introduction
  • Why international parliamentary institutions?
  • Strategic democratic legitimation in international organizations
  • The structure of the book
  • 2: International parliamentary institutions
  • The rise of IPIs
  • IPIs and IOs
  • Autonomy and authority
  • IPI Autonomy
  • IPI Authority
  • Conclusion
  • 3: Strategic democratic legitimation: Why international organizations establish parliamentary institutions
  • IPIs and functional delegation
  • IPIs and norm internalization
  • IPIs and strategic legitimation
  • Legitimacy and legitimation
  • Legitimation and IPIs
  • Legitimation and decoupling
  • Conditions of international parliamentarization
  • Authority
  • Purpose
  • Scope
  • Democracy
  • Governance failure
  • Diffusion
  • 4: The emergence of international parliamentary institutions: A quantitative analysis
  • Operationalization of the variables
  • The outcome: IPIs in international organizations
  • Explanatory variables
  • Bivariate relationships
  • Statistical analysis
  • IPI existence
  • IPI empowerment
  • Conclusion
  • PART II
  • 5: Introduction to the case studies
  • Case selection
  • Selection strategy: Diverse cases
  • Cases
  • Structure of chapters
  • Sources
  • 6: The European Union
  • The origins of the European Parliament
  • Regionalism in post-war Western Europe: Conditions of parliamentarization
  • Negotiating parliamentarization: The process of creating the Common Assembly
  • The development of legislative powers
  • The initial creation of legislative powers in the Single European Act
  • The re-negotiation of existing legislative competences and the Treaty of Amsterdam
  • The extension of legislative competences to sensitive areas and the Lisbon Treaty
  • Conclusions
  • 7: The Organization of Security and Co-operation in Europe
  • Democratization and diffusion: The conditions of parliamentarization and the OSCE PA
  • From democratization to IPI creation: Tracing the establishment of the OSCE PA
  • Conclusions
  • 8: The Commonwealth of Independent States and the Eurasian Economic Union
  • Conditions of international parliamentarization in comparison
  • Origins of CIS and CIS IPA
  • Explaining the failed attempt at a Eurasian Parliament
  • Conclusions
  • 9: The Andean Community
  • From the Andean Pact to the Andean Parliament
  • The creation of the Andean Pact
  • The Cartagena Mandate and the creation of the Andean Parliament
  • Conditions of the creation of the Andean Parliament
  • Process evidence on the creation of the Andean Parliament
  • The creation of the Andean Community
  • Conclusions
  • 10: Mercosur
  • Creation of the Joint Parliamentary Commission: 1991-94