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Ecclesiology
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ISBN: 9780813233277 0813233275 0813233283 Year: 2021 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press,

The European Parliament and Supranational Party System : a study in institutional development
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ISBN: 0521000793 0521806259 1107123968 0511175388 0511041748 0511155697 0511303955 0511606087 1280433515 0511044127 9780511041747 9780511155697 9780521806251 9780511606083 9780511044120 9780521000796 Year: 2002 Volume: *22 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book examines the impact of increased legislative power and political authority on the internal development of the European Parliament and the supranational party group system. This is done through an analysis of changes in the hierarchical structures that regulate the internal organization of both the EP as a whole and the individual party groups. In addition, the changing pattern of coalition formation between party groups across time and legislative procedure is analyzed. The trends of internal development examined suggest that the increases in EP power that have occurred since the creation of the cooperation procedure by the Single European Act in 1987 have caused a fundamental shift in the character of the European Parliament as a legislative institution. Prior to 1987 the European Parliament, despite direct election and several small attempts to increase its powers, served primarily as a chamber of debate where much more was discussed than accomplished.

Democratic politics in the European Parliament
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ISBN: 9780521872881 9780521694605 0521694604 052187288X 9780511491955 9780511279232 051127923X 0511278632 9780511278631 9786610850464 6610850461 0511277466 9780511277467 0511278055 9780511278051 1107172187 9781107172180 1280850469 9781280850462 0511491956 0511321627 9780511321627 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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With the European Parliament comprising politicians from many different countries, cultures, languages, national parties and institutional backgrounds, one might expect politics in the Parliament to be highly-fragmented and unpredictable. By studying more than 12,000 recorded votes between 1979 and 2004 this 2007 book establishes that the opposite is in fact true: transnational parties in the European Parliament are highly cohesive and the classic 'left-right' dimension dominates voting behaviour. Furthermore, the cohesion of parties in the European Parliament has increased as the powers of the Parliament have increased. The authors suggest that the main reason for these developments is that like-minded MEPs have incentives to form stable transnational party organizations and to use these organizations to compete over European Union policies. They suggest that this is a positive development for the future of democratic accountability in the European Union.

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