The Europeanization of Domestic Legislatures: The Empirical Implications of the Delors' Myth in Nine Countries

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by  Sylvain Brouard, Olivier Costa (auth.), Sylvain Brouard, Olivier Costa, Thomas König (eds.)

Studies in Public Choice
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Sylvain Brouard Olivier Costa Thomas Ko¨nig
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The Europeanization
of Domestic Legislatures
The Empirical Implications of the Delors’
Myth in Nine Countries
Editors
SylvainBrouard OlivierCosta
CentreEmileDurkheim CentreEmileDurkheim
33607PessacCedex 33607PessacCedex
France France
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ThomasKo¨nig
DepartmentofPoliticalScience
UniversityofMannheim
Mannheim
Germany
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Acknowledgments
The“Delors’mythproject”istheresultoffourworkshopsorganisedinBordeaux
(November 2008), The Hague (June 2009), Barcelona (January 2010) and
Mannheim (May 2010). The editors would like to thank Sciences Po Bordeaux
(Centre Emile Durkheim), the Montesquieu Institute, the University of Barcelona
andtheMannheimCenterforEuropeanSocialResearch(MZES)attheUniversity
ofMannheimfortheirsupport.
The editors would also like to acknowledge the Comparative Agendas Project,
itsinitiatorsanditsmembers.Thisresearchwouldhavebeenmuchmoredifficultto
achievewithoutthisnetworkaswellasitscommonframeworkandfocus.
TheresearchontheAustriancasewasfundedbytheAustrian“NewOrientations
forDemocracyinEurope”(NODE)researchprogramme.Theauthorsaregrateful
toIlseKo¨nigandMartinaHartloftheNODEprogrammefortheirsupport,totheir
studentresearchassistantsinMannheimandViennafordevotedwork.
The French chapter is a joint output of the project “LEGIPAR: Parliamentary
legitimization and democratic government in France and in the European Union”
and of the project “AGENDA: the political agendas of the Fifth Republic”, both
fundedbytheFrenchAgenceNationaledelaRecherche.
The German chapter is grateful for support of the German National Science
Foundation(1142“InstitutionalDesignofFederalSystems:TheoryandData”)and
theMannheimCenterforEuropeanSocialResearch(MZES).
We’d like to acknowledge the financial assistance of the Italian Ministry for
Research and Higher Education, Prin 2007 prot. scrwt4 “Legislative process and
policy arenas. Games, vetoes and networks in the age of the Italian political
alternation”andPrin2009prot.2009TPW4NL_002 “Institutionalagenda-setting:
actors,time,information”.
The Luxembourgish team would like to express its sincere gratitude to Daniel
Andrich (Director, Service Central de Le´gislation), Nicolas Henckes (Director,
Legitech), Ben Fayot (Chairman of the Committee on Foreign and European
Affairs, Defence, Cooperation and Immigration in the Luxemburgish Parliament)
v
vi Acknowledgments
and Rita Brors (Officer, Chamber of Deputies) for their support and cooperation,
whichenabledthemtoaccomplishthisresearch.
TheSpanishchapterisanoutputoftheproject“ThePoliticsofattention:West
European politics in times of change: the case of Spain” (EUROCORES
programme), European Science Foundation (ESF), and the Agencia de Gestio´
d’AjutsUniversitarisideRecerca(AGAUR),GeneralitatdeCatalunya(SGR536).
The Swiss chapter is an output of the project “Agenda Setting in Switzerland”
fundedbytheSwissNationalScienceFoundation(ref.105511-119245/1),andpart
oftheEUROCORESproject“ThePoliticsofAttention:WestEuropeanPoliticsin
TimesofChange”,fundedbytheEuropeanScienceFoundation.
Contents
1 Delors’Myth:TheScopeandImpactoftheEuropeanization
ofLawProduction....................................................... 1
SylvainBrouard,OlivierCosta,andThomasKo¨nig
2 EULegislativeActivitiesandDomesticPolitics....................... 21
ThomasKo¨nig,TanjaDannwolf,andBrookeLuetgert
3 Measuringthe“Europeanization”ofAustrianLaw-Making:
LegalandContextualFactors.......................................... 39
MarceloJennyandWolfgangC.Mu¨ller
4 TheMinorImpactofEUonLegislationinFinland.................. 59
MattiWibergandTapioRaunio
5 AreFrenchLawsWritteninBrussels?TheLimited
EuropeanizationofLaw-MakinginFrance
andItsImplications...................................................... 75
SylvainBrouard,OlivierCosta,andEricKerrouche
6 DoesEuropeanizationChangeExecutive–Parliament
Relations?ExecutiveDominanceandParliamentary
ResponsesinGermany................................................... 95
ThomasKo¨nigandLarsMa¨der
7 LeadingGovernmentsandUnwillingLegislators:
TheEuropeanUnionandtheItalian
LawMaking(1987–2006)............................................... 109
EnricoBorghetto,MarcoGiuliani,andFrancescoZucchini
8 TheEuropeanizationofDomesticLegislationinLuxembourg...... 131
PatrickDumontandAstridSpreitzer
9 MythsandMilestones:TheEuropeanizationoftheLegislative
AgendaintheNetherlands.............................................. 151
GerardBreemanandArcoTimmermans
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10 TheEuropeanizationofLaw-MakingActivitiesinSpain............ 173
AnnaM.PalauandLauraChaque´s
11 SoClose,YetSoFar?TheEU’sFootprintinSwiss
LegislativeProduction.................................................... 197
RoyGavaandFre´de´ricVarone
12 GoingBeyond:CausesofEuropeanization............................ 223
ThomasKo¨nigandLarsMa¨der
Index.......................................................................... 241
Chapter 1
Delors’ Myth: The Scope and Impact
of the Europeanization of Law Production
SylvainBrouard,OlivierCosta,andThomasK€onig
Since the beginning of the 1990s numerous theoretical and normative debates
on European integration and the “democratic” distribution of power among the
EuropeanCommission,theCouncilofMinisters,andtheEuropeanParliamenthave
entertainedscholars,politicians,andopinionleadersalike.The“democracydeficit”
conceptstemsfromthehypothesisthatEUlegislativeactivitieshavestrengthened
thepowerofgovernmentalactorsfromtheCouncilofMinistersattheexpenseof
parliaments.WhileMoravcsik(2004,2008)arguesthatthesegovernmentalagents
are democratically elected agents of their national constituencies, the concerns
about a democratic deficit have been reinforced by the progressive extension of
qualified majority voting in the Council of Ministers since the end of the 1980s:
theoretically, the possible exclusion of some governmental agents and the lack of
transparencyofCouncildeliberationsmadetheireffectivecontrolbytheirdomestic
parliamentary principals extremely difficult, as members of parliament even lack
reliable information on the voting behavior of their governmental agents in the
Council(Scharpf1993;Hix1999,2005,Majone1998;Moravcsik1994,2002;Lord
2004;Bartoloni2005;FollesdalandHix2006;Siedentop2001;Jachtenfuchs2001;
Rittberger and Schimmelfennig 2005; Follesdal and Hix 2006; Olsen 2007;
MagnetteandPapadopoulos2008;K€onig2008).
Without going into detail on the different normative views about the EU’s
distribution of power, the controversies about the democratic deficit commonly
stateaweaknessofparliamentaryrepresentationintheEU,inasystemdominated
byrepresentativesoftheexecutiveandtechnocrats,andmarkedbythesupremacy
oflawoverpolitics.Asaresponse,theparticipationoftheEuropeanParliamenthas
steadily increased by treaty revisions and the co-decision procedure, which
S.Brouard(*)(cid:129)O.Costa
CentreEmileDurkheim,UniversityofBordeaux,Bordeaux,France
e-mail:[email protected];[email protected]
T.K€onig
DepartmentofPoliticalScience,UniversityofMannheim,Mannheim,Germany
e-mail:[email protected]
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