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Parliamentary Oversight of the Executives: Tools and Procedures in Europe

Elena Griglio

ISBN13: 9781509943661

Published: March 2022

Publisher: Hart Publishing

Country of Publication: UK

Format: Paperback (Hardback in 2020)

Price: £37.99

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Oversight of executives has always been a key function of parliaments and one that is central to developing the relationship between the executive and legislative branches of government. However, in reality governments are taking a more pronounced role in controlling legislation, diluting the influence of parliament. This book plots this trend in parliaments across Europe, to illustrate points of convergence and divergence. In so doing, it suggest tools and methods that parliaments can develop to bolster their crucial oversight role.

Subjects:: Constitutional and Administrative Law, European Jurisdictions

Contents:: PART I. CONSTITUTIONAL FEATURES OF PARLIAMENTARY OVERSIGHT IN EUROPE; 1. Introduction: Oversight of the Executives. A European Approach; I. What Parliamentary Oversight Serves: In Search of a Definition; II. Placing the Oversight Function in the European Constitutional Legal Order; III. A Selective Approach to Parliamentary Oversight; IV. The Fortune of the Oversight Function in Scholarship; 2. Oversight as a Relational Function Linking Parliaments to Executives; I. At the Origins of Parliamentarism in Europe; II. Oversight or Scrutiny? A Comparison with Presidential Experiences; III. Oversight in Contemporary European Forms of Government; IV. The Influence of the Executive-Parties Dimension; V. Oversight Serving the Requirements of Executive Accountability; VI. The Problem of Enforcement: Comparing Hard and Soft Oversight; 3. Instances of Parliamentary Oversight: In Dialogue with Other Parliamentary Functions; I. Parliamentary Appraisal of Executive Appointments in Government Formation: Oversight or Elective Function?; II. Ex Ante Parliamentary Oversight: Setting the Political Direction; III. The Ex Post Dimension of Parliamentary Oversight: Post-Legislative Scrutiny and the Evaluation of Public Policies; IV. Oversight Th rough Parliamentary Information: Publicity and Communication; 4. Classifying Oversight Tools According to Parliamentary Practice; I. Pairing Oversight Tools and Procedures According to Parliamentary Practice; II. Oversight: A Realm for the Plenary or for Parliamentary Committees?; III. Informative Tools Instrumental to Oversight; IV. Oversight Tools Preceding Government Action; V. Questioning the Government: A Hybrid Oversight Tool; VI. Oversight Tools Following Government Action; 5. Parliamentary Oversight in Bicameral Systems: What Role for Upper Houses; I. Oversight in Symmetric Bicameralism: The Informal Search for Influence by the Italian Senate; II. When Asymmetric Bicameralism Does Not Hinder the Influence Capacity of the Upper House: Oversight by the House of Lords; III. Oversight as a Means of (Administrative) Territorial Influence in the German Bundesrat; IV. Explaining National Variations in Upper Houses' Parliamentary Oversight; PART II. INSTANCES OF PARLIAMENTARY OVERSIGHT IN SECTORIAL POLICY FIELDS; 6. Parliaments in International Affairs: Fostering Democracy Through the Oversight of Government Action; I. Introduction. The Role of Parliaments in International Affairs: Overcoming the Idea of 'Executive Dominance'; II. How Parliaments Oversee Government Foreign Policy at the Domestic Level: A Comparative Overview; III. Political Versus Judicial Interpretation of the Executive–Legislative Balance of Powers in International Affairs; IV. The Non-Binding Potential of Parliamentary Oversight in International Affairs; 7. Parliamentary Oversight in the EU Constitutional Dimension: The Polycentric Paradigm; I. Parliamentary Oversight of the EU 'Fragmented' Executive; II. The Oversight Module Centred on the European Parliament; III. Indirect Oversight by National Parliaments and National Forms of Government; IV. Filling the Gaps of Parliamentary Oversight Through Interparliamentary Cooperation; V. The Hybridisation of Parliamentary Oversight in the EU; 8. Parliamentary Oversight of Budget: A Trade-Off with Budgetary Decision-Making?; I. How Parliaments Relate to Budgeting; II. Parliamentary Oversight of Budget: Alternative Models; III. The Impact of European Economic Governance; IV. The Trade-Off between Budgetary Decision-Making and Oversight: Unchallenged by the European Parliament; 9. Conclusions: From Law-Making to Oversight? A Concrete Perspective for European Parliamentarism