Parliaments and the Economic Governance of the , Maatsch Hardcover..

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Parliaments and the Economic Governance of the European UnionTalking Shops or Deliberative Bodies?\nAuthor(s): Aleksandra Maatsch\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138230033, 978-1138230033\nSynopsis\nThis book analyses how national parliaments and parliamentary parties performed their legislative, representative and control functions during the reform of European economic governance. Focusing on domestic approvals of anti-crisis measures (EFSF, ESM and the Fiscal Compact) in all member states of the Eurozone, the book aims at establishing to what extent national parliaments and parliamentary parties secured their competences in EU policy-making during that process.\n\nTaking an interdisciplinary approach, In order to address that question the book employs an interdisciplinary approach and analyses (i) in which states parliaments formal powers in approval of anti-crisis measures were constrained, (ii) how parliame.