Conceptualizing the Role of Parliamentary Administrators

Abstract

The Treaty of Lisbon acknowledged the role of national parliaments in the democratic functioning of the EU and strengthened their formal involvement in EU policy-making, most notably through better information rights and the creation of the EWS. These new opportunities led to greater academic attention and contributed to a growing literature on the role of national parliaments in the EU (e.g. Hefftler et al. 2015) and the contribution that these could make in helping to address the EU’s putative ‘democratic deficit’ (Bellamy and Kröger 2013).