Regional Accountability and Executive Power in Europe

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-25100-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 643 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Constitutional Law

This book discusses the major issues currently affecting the accountability of executive power in Europe. The work is divided into three parts. The first examines the territorial dimension including unitary, regional and federal. It discusses how territorial actors participate in strengthening or weakening the implementation of accountability of executive power in modern democratic States. The second part explores the links between national traditions and European accountability of executive power to establish a common European culture. The third and final part focuses on how to build a truly multidisciplinary approach to accountability of executive power and draws on legal, historical and political approaches. The volume will be an invaluable resource for researchers, academics and policy-makers in constitutional law and politics, public law, comparative law, legal history and government.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morabito, Marcel

Tusseau, Guillaume

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Staats- und Regierungsformen, Staatslehre
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Marcel Morabito





Part I: The responsibility of the national Executive power from the point of view of local territories



Section 1: Theoretical Reflections



Chapter 1: A European perspective

Mercedes Bresso



Chapter 2: The responsibility of the national executive power in Germany

Claus Dieter Classen, Aurore Gaillet and Yoan Vilain



Chapter 3: Is calling upon the courts a way to acknowledge the responsibility of the Executive?

Virginie Donier



Section 2: Regional Realities



Chapter 4: The point of view of a State representative

Laurent Carrié



Chapter 5: The point of view of an elected official

André Viola



Conclusion: how do local actors participate in the strengthening or in the weakening of the holding to account of the Executive within modern democratic States?

Stéphane Mouton





Part II: National traditions and European culture



Section 3: What impact do the traditions of the Member States have on the European practice of responsibility?



Chapter 6: Are there common national traditions regarding the responsibility of the executive power?

Luigi Lacchè



Chapter 7: The accountability of the EU Commission as the EU’s Executive

Paolo Ponzano



Chapter 8: Political accountability and role splitting of the Executive in EU Member States

Jacques Ziller



Chapter 9: Political accountability within the European system

Fabienne Peraldi-Leneuf



Section 4: A common culture? National traditions, European challenges



Questionnaire

Julien Padovani and Emilien Quinart



Chapter 10: Parliamentarianism and accountability of the executive power on a European scale: the experience of the European Parliament

Juan Fernando López Aguilar



Chapter 11: The scent of wild animals

Sophie in’t Veld



Conclusion: On political responsibility and political control in the European Union

Jean-Paul Jacqué





Part III: Diversity of legal approaches



Section 5: Democratic perspectives



Chapter 12: The European convergence of the strengthening of the executive power

Hanan Qazbir



Chapter 13: Responsibility, accountability and legitimacy of Executives: what role for the people?

Audrey Bachert-Peretti



Section 6: Disciplinary specificities



Chapter 14: Administrative responsibility and responsibility of the Executive

Hafida Belrhali



Chapter 15: Understanding responsibility through the issues of the environment: towards a bilateral conception of responsibility?

Malik Bozzo-Rey



Chapter 16: A perspective on civil responsibility

Jean-Baptiste Donnier



Chapter 17: Responsibility of the Executive: cross-read approaches

Amaia Errecart



Chapter 18: The unique nature of political responsibility

Cécile Guérin-Bargues



Chapter19: Responsibility and sports: some remarks on a particular couple

Clémentine Legendre



Chapter 20: The difficulty of thinking about executive responsibility in a republic: a historical perspective

François Quastana



Chapter 21: Of sheep and straw men: the accountability of the Executive from the perspective of political science

Olivier Rozenberg



Conclusion: For a common concept of ‘responsibility’ from a multidisciplinary perspective

Xavier Magnon

Concluding Remarks: a kaleidoscopic approach to make (necessary) interdisciplinary communication possible

Guillaume Tusseau

Über Autor(innen)

Marcel Morabito is Professor Emeritus of Legal History at Sciences Po, Paris, and member of the Institut Louis Favoreu, Aix-Marseille University, France.

Guillaume Tusseau is Professor of Public Law at Sciences Po Law School, Paris, Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France.