Multi-arena players in the making? Conceptualizing the role of national parliaments since the Lisbon Treaty
本文梳理了里斯本条约后国家议会在欧盟中的新角色,提出将其概念化为“多舞台参与者”,并对比了正式结构与实际参与情况,为后续研究提供方向。
Over the last years, the role of national parliaments (NPs) in the European Union (EU) has been upgraded in several ways, most importantly through the Early Warning System (EWS) and a new role in Treaty revisions established by the Treaty of Lisbon (ToL). These provisions formally turn national legislatures into EU actors in their own right that can act both individually and collectively at the EU level, as well as independently of their national governments. As a result, the EU legislative process now presents them with multiple arenas in which they can be simultaneously active – a perspective so far neglected in the literature. The aim of this research agenda is therefore threefold: to take stock of the impact of these provisions by contrasting the formal structures and the actual involvement of NPs; to propose a conceptualization of this new role of NPs in EU affairs as ‘multi-arena players’; and to sketch new avenues for research.