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"Necker's On Executive Power in Great States, written as the events of the French Revolution were still unfolding, sheds fresh light on timely topics of executive power, constitutionalism and the rule of law, federalism, balance of power, and the dependence of liberty on morality and religion"--

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.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The State in Imperial Russia and the USSR -- The State and the Economy -- The State and Security -- The State and the Future -- Index -- Contributors -- 1 The Government in the Soviet Political System -- 2 Party-State Relations -- 3 Executive-Legislative Relations -- 4 The Rise of Presidential Power under Gorbachev -- 5 The Ministry of Finance -- 6 The Industrial Ministries -- 7 The Agricultural Ministries -- 8 The Ministry of Defense -- 9 The Ministry of Internal Affairs

AbstractIn the multilevel system of the European Union (EU), national governments have been empowered at the expense of parliaments. We study the executive power shift in EU politics in the formation of national preferences. This article shows that governments are more likely to integrate parliaments and external actors, such as other governments and EU institutions, when they advocate extreme bargaining positions in EU negotiations. We theoretically develop this argument and provide an empirical study of Eurozone politics, covering the preference formation of 27 EU member states. The analysis shows that the executives are overall the dominating power: most of the time, governments form national preferences on their own. When governments integrate additional actors, they mostly rely on external actors and do so to avoid blame and to shift responsibility. These findings question whether the integration of national parliaments in EU politics indeed addresses democratic accountability concerns.

IntroductionMarcel 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 perspectiveMercedes Bresso Chapter 2: The responsibility of the national executive power in GermanyClaus 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 representativeLaurent Carrié Chapter 5: The point of view of an elected officialAndré 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 ExecutivePaolo Ponzano Chapter 8: Political accountability and role splitting of the Executive in EU Member StatesJacques Ziller Chapter 9: Political accountability within the European systemFabienne Peraldi-Leneuf Section 4: A common culture? National traditions, European challenges QuestionnaireJulien Padovani and Emilien Quinart Chapter 10: Parliamentarianism and accountability of the executive power on a European scale: the experience of the European ParliamentJuan Fernando López Aguilar Chapter 11: The scent of wild animalsSophie 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 powerHanan 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 ExecutiveHafida 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 responsibilityJean-Baptiste Donnier Chapter 17: Responsibility of the Executive: cross-read approaches Amaia Errecart Chapter 18: The unique nature of political responsibilityCécile Guérin-Bargues Chapter19: Responsibility and sports: some remarks on a particular coupleClémentine Legendre Chapter 20: The difficulty of thinking about executive responsibility in a republic: a historical perspectiveFrançois Quastana Chapter 21: Of sheep and straw men: the accountability of the Executive from the perspective of political scienceOlivier Rozenberg Conclusion: For a common concept of 'responsibility' from a multidisciplinary perspectiveXavier Magnon Concluding Remarks: A kaleidoscopic approach to make (necessary) interdisciplinary communication possibleGuillaume Tusseau