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Parliaments, Public Opinion and Parliamentary Elections in Europe
The contributions collected in this Max Weber Working Papers Special Issue were first delivered at a
conference held at the European University Institute and jointly organised by the Max Weber
Programme for Postdoctoral Studies and the Robert Schuman Centre of Advanced Studies in March
2015 on \u2018Parliaments and parliamentary elections in Europe\u2019. Following the transformations
undertaken by the European and national parliaments after the Treaty of Lisbon, the 2014 European
elections, the unprecedented politicization and the challenges posed to representative democracy by
the Eurozone crisis, the Special Issue aims to investigate three intertwined themes. (I) Parliamentary
representation: European and national at the same time?; (II) national parliaments in EU
policymaking; and (III) dynamics of Euroscepticism and its effects on law-making. In particular the
papers deal with the ability of parliaments to democratically represent people in the European Union
today and to affect the European integration process, with the asymmetric involvement of national
parliaments in the EU, their dynamics of cooperation as well as between them and the European
Parliament, and finally, with the implications on EU democratic legitimacy of recent developments
regarding parliamentary input provided at a very early stage of the European policymaking. Other
issues, such as transposition and the representation of eurosceptics in the European Parliament are also
dealt with