Dr. Magda Giurcanu has a forthcoming paper in Party Politics with Petia Kostadinova (University of Illinois at Chicago). The paper is titled: “Europarties’ election pledges and European Commission legislative priorities: An assessment of their overlap”.
Abstract: Utilizing a newly compiled dataset, this article demonstrates that some election pledges made by the transnational Europarties are included among the European Commission legislative priorities issued during the pre-legislative stage. The dataset consists of 597 promises made by four transnational Europarties during the 2004 and 2009 European Parliament elections, and of 698 subsequent Commission intentions. Focusing on the time periods during the Barroso Presidencies, the article’s findings suggest that 1) Decision-making rules in the European Parliament help us understand which transnational pledges are included in Commission priorities; and 2) Promises by two Europarties: the EPP and ELDR, are more likely to be considered by the Commission than those of other parties. Our results speak to scholarly debates on the place of the Europarties in the EU inter-institutional relations and more broadly on the democratic legitimacy of the Union.
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