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Routine or Rare Activity? A Quantitative Assessment of Parliamentary Scrutiny in the European Semester
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Abstract The European Semester is an EU procedure, designed to facilitate coordination between national and EU actors in planning and implementing economic and fiscal policies and contribute to sustained economic convergence and employment in the EU. Scholars have highlighted this procedure as a crucial area... view more
The European Semester is an EU procedure, designed to facilitate coordination between national and EU actors in planning and implementing economic and fiscal policies and contribute to sustained economic convergence and employment in the EU. Scholars have highlighted this procedure as a crucial area of EU politics for national parliaments since its introduction in 2011. However, national parliaments participate differently in the European Semester. This article investigates which factors (institutional, political, economic) are more likely to intensify parliamentary engagement at the national stage of the procedure, based on a comparative quantitative analysis of parliamentary scrutiny activities across 35 parliaments/chambers in the EU over the 2014-2017 period. The article offers new insights about prospects for greater parliamentary accountability in the European Semester in practice.... view less
Keywords
EU; EU policy; national politics; parliament; political control
Classification
European Politics
Free Keywords
European Semester; national parliaments; parliamentary accountability; parliamentary scrutiny
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Page/Pages
p. 112-123
Journal
Politics and Governance, 9 (2021) 3
Issue topic
Rising to a Challenge? Ten Years of Parliamentary Accountability of the European Semester
ISSN
2183-2463
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed