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Executive Selection in the European Union: Does the Commission President Investiture Procedure Reduce the Democratic Deficit?

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dc.creator Simon Hix
dc.date 1997
dc.date.accessioned 2013-05-30T12:59:18Z
dc.date.available 2013-05-30T12:59:18Z
dc.date.issued 2013-05-30
dc.identifier http://eiop.or.at/eiop/texte/1997-021.htm
dc.identifier http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=openurl&genre=article&issn=10275193&date=1997&volume=1&issue=&spage=21
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/5530
dc.description Central to all democratic systems is the ability of citizens to choose who holds executive power. To reduce the democratic-deficit in the EU, therefore, the Maastricht and Amsterdam Treaties give the European Parliament (EP) a vote on the European Council nominee for Commission President. The effect, so many commentators claim, is a parliamentary model: where EP elections are connected via an EP majority to executive selection. However, these claims are misplaced. There are no incentives for national parties to compete for the Commission President, and every incentive for MEPs to abide by national-party rather than EP-party wishes. The result is that EP elections are second-order national contests , fought by national parties on national executive performance, and that the winning coalition in the investiture procedure is of prime ministers parties not of EP election victors . Consequently, for a parliamentary model to work, either the EP should go first in the investiture process, or the link between domestic parties and MEPs should be broken. However, if EP elections remain second-order, the only option may be a presidential model, where the Commission President is directly-elected.
dc.publisher ECSA-Austria
dc.source European Integration Online Papers
dc.subject IGC 1996
dc.subject European Parliament
dc.subject European Commission
dc.subject investiture procedure
dc.subject Amsterdam Treaty
dc.subject institutions
dc.subject European elections
dc.subject democracy
dc.subject political science
dc.title Executive Selection in the European Union: Does the Commission President Investiture Procedure Reduce the Democratic Deficit?


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