Europe in National Parliaments

Project Directors Prof. Dr. Wolfgang C. Müller Project Staff Marcelo Jenny, Sebastian Hartmann MZES-funded 2009 – 2011

Research question/goal:

This project will investigate the Europeanization of parliamentary debates and questions in Western Europe. It will establish the relevance of European issues in the daily work of selected parliaments, show what kind of rhetorical frames the relevant actors use, and seek to explain the amount of Europeanization and the positions taken on European integration issues. In so doing, the project will employ quantitative and qualitative methods.

Current stage:

The project has conducted a survey of the literature and relevant computer-aided methods of text analysis and has performed other early-stage tasks. Due to Wolfgang C. Müller’s move to the University of Vienna it will be terminated at the MZES.

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Müller, Wolfgang C., Mark Bovens, Jørgen Gronnegaard Christensen, Marcelo Jenny, Kutsal Yesilkagit (2010): Legal Europeanization: Comparative Perspectives. Public Administration, 88, 1, 75–87. More
  • Jenny, Marcelo, Wolfgang C. Müller (2010): From the Europeanization of Lawmaking to the Europeanization of National Legal Orders: The Case of Austria. Public Administration, 88, 1, 36–56. More

Presentations

  • Jenny, Marcelo, Wolfgang C. Müller (2005): 'Delors' Vision and the Sobering Reality of Europeanizing the Legal Order. An Austrian Perspective. [ECPR Joint Session of Workshops, Granada, 13/04/2005 - 18/04/2005]. More