Europeanization of Domestic Legislatures (eBook)

The Empirical Implications of the Delors' Myth in Nine Countries
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In ten years 80 per cent of the legislation related to economics, maybe also to taxes and social aff airs, will be of Community origin.' This declaration has been largely quoted, paraphrased and deformed by different authors, creating a persistent myth according to which 80% of the legislative activity of the national legislatures would soon be reduced to the simple transposition of European norms'. This book addresses the topic of the scope and impact of Europeanization on national legislation, as a part of the Europeanization debate which raises normative concerns linked to the 'democratic deficit' debate. The state of the art shows that there are many assumptions and claims on how European integration may affect national legislation and, more generally, domestic governance but that there is a lack of solid and comparative data to test them. The aim of the book is to give a solid and comparative insight into Europeanization focusing on effective outcomes in a systematic way. This book analyzes the period 1986-2008 and includes an introduction, a global overview of European legislative activities which set the background for Europeanization of national legislatures, 9 country contributions (8 EU member states + Switzerland) including systematic, comparative and standardized data, tables and figures, and a conclusion with a comparative analysis of the European and domestic reasons for Europeanization.

All national contributions conclude that Europeanization of national legislation is much more limited than assumed in the literature and public debate. It is limited to 10 to 30% of laws (depending on the country), far less than the 80% predicted by Jacques Delors and mentioned daily by medias and public opinion leaders to demonstrate EU domination on member states. Beside that general statement, the various chapters propose a deep insight on EU constraint over national legislation, providing much information on the kind of laws and policies that are Europeanized, the evolution of this process through time, the impact of Europeanization on the balance of powers and the relations between majority and opposition at national level, the strategies developed by national institutions in that context, and many other issues, making the book of interest to academics and policy-makers concerned with Europeanization and national legislation.


In ten years 80 per cent of the legislation related to economics, maybe also to taxes and social aff airs, will be of Community origin."e; This declaration has been largely quoted, paraphrased and deformed by different authors, creating a persistent myth according to which 80% of the legislative activity of the national legislatures would soon be reduced to the simple transposition of European norms"e;. This book addresses the topic of the scope and impact of Europeanization on national legislation, as a part of the Europeanization debate which raises normative concerns linked to the "e;democratic deficit"e; debate. The state of the art shows that there are many assumptions and claims on how European integration may affect national legislation and, more generally, domestic governance but that there is a lack of solid and comparative data to test them. The aim of the book is to give a solid and comparative insight into Europeanization focusing on effective outcomes in a systematic way. This book analyzes the period 1986-2008 and includes an introduction, a global overview of European legislative activities which set the background for Europeanization of national legislatures, 9 country contributions (8 EU member states + Switzerland) including systematic, comparative and standardized data, tables and figures, and a conclusion with a comparative analysis of the European and domestic reasons for Europeanization.All national contributions conclude that Europeanization of national legislation is much more limited than assumed in the literature and public debate. It is limited to 10 to 30% of laws (depending on the country), far less than the 80% predicted by Jacques Delors and mentioned daily by medias and public opinion leaders to demonstrate EU domination on member states. Beside that general statement, the various chapters propose a deep insight on EU constraint over national legislation, providing much information on the kind of laws and policies that are Europeanized, the evolution of this process through time, the impact of Europeanization on the balance of powers and the relations between majority and opposition at national level, the strategies developed by national institutions in that context, and many other issues, making the book of interest to academics and policy-makers concerned with Europeanization and national legislation.

Contents 8
Chapter 1: Delors´ Myth: The Scope and Impact of the Europeanization of Law Production 10
Understanding Europeanization 13
The Empirical Approach of the Europeanization of Law Production 16
Aims and Structure of the Book 22
References 26
Chapter 2: EU Legislative Activities and Domestic Politics 29
EU Legislation over Time 31
Implementation of Directives 37
Conclusion 42
Appendix: Policy fields over time 43
References 45
Chapter 3: Measuring the ``Europeanization´´ of Austrian Law-Making: Legal and Contextual Factors 46
Introduction 46
What Legislation Can Tell Us About ``Europeanization´´ 46
The Austrian Legal System and Process 47
Federalism 49
Legal Tradition 50
The Formal Transposition Process 52
Measuring Europeanization by the Study of Lawmaking 54
Measuring Legal Europeanization 55
Manual Coding 55
Automatic Computer-Assisted Coding 56
Results 57
Europeanization of Laws 57
Europeanization of Law-Making Measured by Keyword Search 59
Europeanization of Laws by Policy Area 61
Conclusion 62
References 63
Chapter 4: The Minor Impact of EU on Legislation in Finland 66
Introduction 66
The Impact of Europe on Domestic Laws 69
Empirical Analysis 71
Discussion 76
References 78
Chapter 5: Are French Laws Written in Brussels? The Limited Europeanization of Law-Making in France and Its Implications 81
Law-Making, EU Decision-Making, and Parliament Under the Fifth Republic 82
The Growing but Limited Europeanization of the French Laws.. 85
Operational Definitions of the Europeanization of French Laws 86
Europeanization as a Reference to the EU: The EU Link 86
Europeanization as a Constraint 87
The Scope of the Europeanization of French Laws 88
Dynamics of EU Directives and the Constrained Europeanization of Domestic Laws in France 91
The Pattern of Europeanization and French Domestic Institutions 93
The Effect of Europeanization on Domestic Institutions: No Double Penalty for the French Parliament 93
Europeanization and the Domestic Political System: Behind the Myth of a European Policy Dictator, the Reality of a New Veto Pl... 95
Conclusion 97
References 98
Chapter 6: Does Europeanization Change Executive-Parliament Relations? Executive Dominance and Parliamentary Responses in Germ... 100
Introduction 100
The German Legislature: Mandatory and Non-Mandatory Domestic Laws 102
Europeanization of the German legislature: A Cross-Validated Analysis 104
Consequences for Governmental Agenda-Setting Power and Parliamentary Scrutiny 108
References 112
Chapter 7: Leading Governments and Unwilling Legislators: The European Union and the Italian Law Making (1987-2006) 114
Introduction 114
The Recent Evolution of Italian Law-Making 117
The Decrease in the Number of Adopted Laws 118
The Strengthening of the Government´s Law-Making Role 119
The Europeanization of the Italian legislative Output 121
Laws Adopted in Parliament 122
Legislative Decrees 123
How the Evolution of Italian Law-Making Interacts with European Link 125
Inspecting Data on Legislative Amendments 126
Has Europe Contributed to Strengthen the Italian Government? A Tentative Explanation 128
Conclusions 133
References 134
Chapter 8: The Europeanization of Domestic Legislation in Luxembourg 136
Background 137
Luxembourg and the EU 137
Luxembourg´s Legislative Process 139
The Europeanization of the Luxembourgish Legislation 141
The Domestic Management of EU Policy 141
The Transposition of EU Law 144
Measuring the Europeanization of Luxembourgish Legislation 146
Methods 146
Results 148
Conclusions 152
References 154
Chapter 9: Myths and Milestones: The Europeanization of the Legislative Agenda in the Netherlands 155
Introduction: Dutch Sensitivity to European Mythology 155
Law-Making in the Netherlands 157
Research Focus and Dataset 158
Patterns of Legislative Activity 160
European Influence on the Legislative Agenda 163
The Institutional Milestone Effect 164
Policy Topic Variation in Europeanization 165
Complexity and Compulsion 167
Parliamentary Attention to Europeanized Bills 169
Conclusion 172
Appendix 1: Keywords 175
References 175
Chapter 10: The Europeanization of Law-Making Activities in Spain 177
Introduction 177
Shrinking the Role of the Spanish Parliament 179
Methodology and Coding Procedure 182
The Europeanization of Legislative Activity 185
Who Benefits from Europeanization? 189
Conclusions 197
References 198
Chapter 11: So Close, Yet So Far? The EU´s Footprint in Swiss Legislative Production 201
Introduction 201
Switzerland and the EU 203
The Swiss ``Third Way´´ 203
Direct and Indirect Europeanization 205
Legislative Production in Switzerland 206
Legislative Proposals 206
Legislative Acts 207
The EU and Domestic Legislative Production: Previous Assessments 208
Data and Methods 209
The EU´s Footprint and the Legislative Process 211
Legislative Proposals 212
Legislative Acts 215
Referenda 218
Conclusion 220
Appendix 222
References 224
Chapter 12: Going Beyond: Causes of Europeanization 226
The Relative Impact of EU Legislative Activities and Legislative Review 228
Policy Growth by EU Legislative Activities 229
Domestic Factors by Coalition Politics 230
The Area-Specific Europeanization of Domestic Legislation Over Time 232
Discussion 238
References 242
Index 243

Erscheint lt. Verlag 10.12.2011
Reihe/Serie Studies in Public Choice
Zusatzinfo VIII, 244 p.
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Unternehmensführung / Management
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre
Schlagworte EU • Europeanization • Jacques Delors • Law • Legislature
ISBN-10 1-4614-1502-0 / 1461415020
ISBN-13 978-1-4614-1502-2 / 9781461415022
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