Building Europe's Parliament: Democratic Representation Beyond the Nation-State

by Berthold Rittberger

Why have the national governments of EU member states successively endowed the European Parliament with supervisory, budgetary, and legislative powers over the past fifty years? Building Europe's Parliament sheds new light on this pivotal issue, and provides a major contribution to the study of the European Parliament.

Rittberger develops a theory of delegation to representative institutions in international politics which combines elements...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199231990
• ISBN13: 9780199231997
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"