@article{2015:buzogany:institutio,
title = {Institutionalisierung durch Imitation? Die Europäisierung des Parlamentarismus in Mittel- und Osteuropa},
year = {2015},
note = {Central and Eastern European (CEE) parliaments could only briefly
enjoy the new powers they gathered during and after the regime changes
of 1989/1990. Already before the end of the 1990s, they were
confronted with very low trust levels in the population and the rapid
re-strengthening of executives’ powers. The latter was also
reinforced by the on-going process of European integration, which
resulted in further changes of the domestic power balance to the
benefit of core executives. How did the national parliaments in CEE
countries adapt institutionally to the challenges of Europeanization?
In formal terms, the institutional solutions to control governments in
their EU-related activities are among the strongest ones in the EU.
However, the results of policy transfers using the “best practice”
examples of mostly Scandinavian parliaments has led to several
discrepancies between formal rules and their actual use. Building on
the theoretical literature on the Europeanization both of CEE states
and of national parliaments, this contribution suggests that the
suspected general decoupling between formal structures and
rules-in-use seems to be overstated; indeed, CEE parliaments have
developed very differentiated activities in relation to parliamentary
control in EU affairs which fit the exigencies of their respective
political systems quite well. [ZParl, vol. 46 (2015), no. 2, pp. 257 -
271]},
journal = {ZParl Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen},
pages = {257--271},
author = {Buzogany, Aron},
volume = {46},
number = {2}
}