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European Integration and the Changing System of Parliaments
February 26, 2013 at 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM
| Location: | 602A, PoliSci Seminar Room Loeb Building |
| Cost: | Free |
This research seminar is presented in cooperation with the Bell Chair in Canadian Parliamentary Democracy in the Political Science Department. The European Parliament and national parliaments have been analyzed as sources of legitimacy, as legislative institutions or as actors in policy-making, but their role in the process of European integration has been neglected so far. The system of parliaments in the EU has significantly changed in the process of European integration, and there are good reasons to assume that the changing parliamentary relations have had an impact on the integration process, and also to revise institutionalist theories of integration.
Arthur Benz is a professor of political science at the Technische Universität Darmstadt,Germany. He also taught at the Universities in Konstanz, HalleandHagen. In 2007, he received the John G. Diefenbaker and was visiting scholar at the CES at Carleton University Ottawa. Comparative federalism and multilevel governance are the main areas of research. In this context he also published on European governance and the role of parliaments in the EU.
The event is supported, in part, by a grant from the European Union