The domain of the right?: Explaining national parliamentary preferences on EU-related self-empowerment

In the academic debate about the deficits of representative democracy in the European Union, the views of members of parliaments about their EU-oriented roles remain largely unknown. Against this background, we exploit a novel dataset from an author-designed survey conducted in seven national parlia...

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Published in:Parliamentary affairs 2024-04, Vol.78 (1), p.158-181
Main Authors: Borońska-Hryniewiecka, Karolina, Sacriste, Guillaume, Bouillet, Jérémy
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Democracy
Humanities and Social Sciences
Legislative bodies
Legislators
Political science
Preferences (Philosophy)
Representative government and representation
Sociology
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Summary:In the academic debate about the deficits of representative democracy in the European Union, the views of members of parliaments about their EU-oriented roles remain largely unknown. Against this background, we exploit a novel dataset from an author-designed survey conducted in seven national parliaments to unravel MPs' preferences with regard to their EU-oriented empowerment. Our findings allow us to identify the dominant cognitive schemas mobilised among parliamentarians which attribute particular legitimacy-related meanings to proposed institutional reforms. They point to a stronger explanatory power of party ideological position over national constitutional orientations, with right-wing parties being more supportive towards parliamentary empowerment than their centre and centre-left counterparts, and mainstream parties being more sceptical of it than radical groups on both sides of the spectrum.
ISSN:0031-2290
1460-2482
0031-2290
DOI:10.1093/pa/gsae006