The Department of Political and Administrative Studies hosted an ERASMUS Academic Network on Parliamentary Democracy in Europe (PADEMIA) Workshop for Academics studying the European Parliament on the College of Europe Verversdijk site on Wednesday 8 April 2015.
PADEMIA is a Europe-wide network of 56 academic institutions from 31 countries to promote research and teaching in reaction to growing European demands to study parliamentary democracy in Europe.
In this workshop, “Recent developments in the study of the European Parliament: New topics, approaches and findings”, academics from European universities presented their papers in three different sessions and discussed their findings.
Attendance to the Workshop was also open for a selected number of studens giving them an opportunity to follow the very latest developments of the European Parliament, especially since the Lisbon Treaty and in the aftermath of the 2014 European elections.
The three sessions and their topics were as follows:
EP Elections and Members
Chair: Olivier COSTA, College of Europe, Bruges
Discussant: Emilie CAZENAVE, College of Europe, Bruges
- Petra PINTÉR, Budapest Corvinus University, "How Hungarian politicians used the social media during the 2014 EP campaign"
- Corentin POYET, Centre Emile Durkheim, Sciences Po Bordeaux, "Working at home: MEPs day‐to-day practice of political representation in their constitunecy"
- Silje Synnøve LYDER HERMANSEN, Depart. of Political Science, Univ. of Oslo, "Renominations to Office — Incumbent Candidates to the European Parliament"
Internal Issues
Chair: Alexander HOPPE, University of Cologne
Discussant: Chris LORD, ARENA Center for European Studies, Oslo
- Michael KAEDING, University Duisburg-Essen, "Out of the dark, into the light: structural underrepresentation in the European Parliament"
- Nathalie BRACK, FNRS, Université Libre de Bruxelles, "Opposing Europe inside the European Parliament: Which strategies for Eurosceptic MEPs?"
- Olivier COSTA, College of Europe, Bruges, "Democracy in parliament vs. democracy through parliament? Defining the rules of the game in the EP"
Institutional Dynamics
Chair: Chris LORD, ARENA-¬‐Center for European Studies, Oslo
Discussant: Katja TUOKKO, College of Europe
- Thibaud DERUELLE, College of Europe, Bruges, "Interparliamentary cooperation and the role of political groups in the EP"
- Edoardo BRESSANELLI, Dept. of European and International Studies, King’s College, London; Nicola CHELOTTI, London School of Economics, London, "Legislating in the shadow of the European Council: Empowering or silencing the EP?"
- Oleksandr MOSKALENKO, University of Turku, "European Parliament in the current Ukrainian crisis—shaping the inter-institutional framework for CFSP after Lisbon"
You can find the full PADEMIA Workshop programme here.
Contact person: katja.tuokko@coleurope.eu