Regional Accountability and Executive Power in Europe

Marcel Morabito is Professor Emeritus of Legal History at Sciences Po, Paris, and member of the Institut Louis Favoreu, Aix-Marseille University, France. Guillaume Tusseau is Professor of Public Law at Sciences Po Law School, Paris, Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France.

Introduction

Marcel Morabito

Part I: The responsibility of the national Executive power from the point of view of local territories

Section 1: Theoretical Reflections

Chapter 1: A European perspective

Mercedes Bresso

Chapter 2: The responsibility of the national executive power in Germany

Claus Dieter Classen, Aurore Gaillet and Yoan Vilain

Chapter 3: Is calling upon the courts a way to acknowledge the responsibility of the Executive?

Virginie Donier

Section 2: Regional Realities

Chapter 4: The point of view of a State representative

Laurent Carrié

Chapter 5: The point of view of an elected official

André Viola

Conclusion: how do local actors participate in the strengthening or in the weakening of the holding to account of the Executive within modern democratic States?

Stéphane Mouton

Part II: National traditions and European culture

Section 3: What impact do the traditions of the Member States have on the European practice of responsibility?

Chapter 6: Are there common national traditions regarding the responsibility of the executive power?

Luigi Lacchè

Chapter 7: The accountability of the EU Commission as the EU’s Executive

Paolo Ponzano

Chapter 8: Political accountability and role splitting of the Executive in EU Member States

Jacques Ziller

Chapter 9: Political accountability within the European system

Fabienne Peraldi-Leneuf

Section 4: A common culture? National traditions, European challenges

Questionnaire

Julien Padovani and Emilien Quinart

Chapter 10: Parliamentarianism and accountability of the executive power on a European scale: the experience of the European Parliament

Juan Fernando López Aguilar

Chapter 11: The scent of wild animals

Sophie in’t Veld

Conclusion: On political responsibility and political control in the European Union

Jean-Paul Jacqué

Part III: Diversity of legal approaches

Section 5: Democratic perspectives

Chapter 12: The European convergence of the strengthening of the executive power

Hanan Qazbir

Chapter 13: Responsibility, accountability and legitimacy of Executives: what role for the people?

Audrey Bachert-Peretti

Section 6: Disciplinary specificities

Chapter 14: Administrative responsibility and responsibility of the Executive

Hafida Belrhali

Chapter 15: Understanding responsibility through the issues of the environment: towards a bilateral conception of responsibility?

Malik Bozzo-Rey

Chapter 16: A perspective on civil responsibility

Jean-Baptiste Donnier

Chapter 17: Responsibility of the Executive: cross-read approaches

Amaia Errecart

Chapter 18: The unique nature of political responsibility

Cécile Guérin-Bargues

Chapter19: Responsibility and sports: some remarks on a particular couple

Clémentine Legendre

Chapter 20: The difficulty of thinking about executive responsibility in a republic: a historical perspective

François Quastana

Chapter 21: Of sheep and straw men: the accountability of the Executive from the perspective of political science

Olivier Rozenberg

Conclusion: For a common concept of ‘responsibility’ from a multidisciplinary perspective

Xavier Magnon

Concluding Remarks: a kaleidoscopic approach to make (necessary) interdisciplinary communication possible

Guillaume Tusseau