The Domain of the Right? Explaining National Parliamentary Preferences on EU-Related Self-Empowerment
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[1] University of Wrocław
University of Wrocław
Breslavia, Polonia
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[2] Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique , Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris ,
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- Localización: Parliamentary affairs: A journal of representative politics, ISSN 0031-2290, Vol. 78, Nº 1, 2025, págs. 158-181
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
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.
