EFFECTS OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION ON PARLIAMENTARY CONTROL OF GOVERNMENT: THE CASE OF LUXEMBOURG, 1999-2011

The present thesis sets out to provide an understanding of how European integration affects NPs in the EU and their relationship to the executive. The main objective of the empirical analysis is to investigate how parliamentary control of government serves EU scrutiny between 1999 and 2011. The case study, which focuses on the Luxembourgish Chamber of Deputies allows for a test of changes in governmental discretion on three parliamentary control dimensions in different domestic and European contexts of coalition governments and European Treaties. The theoretical framework for interpreting the... Mehr ...