This book provides a comprehensive account of national parliaments' adaptation to European integration.

• 1: Introduction


• 2: The Democratic Deficit and Parliamentary Adaptation to Integration


• 3: Constitutional Preferences and National Parliamentary Reform


• 4: Analyzing Domestic Adaptation to European Integration Empirically


• 5: Constitutional Preferences in Dutch Parliamentary Reform Debates, 1985-2010


• 6: The Lack of a Strong 'Direct' Parliamentary Role in EU Policy-Making


• 7: Thomas Winzen and Berthold Rittberger: Parliamentary Reactions to Reforms of Economic and Monetary Union


• 8: Potentials and Pitfalls of Building Parliament Rights on Constitutional Preferences


• Appendix I: Additional Tables and Figures for Each Chapter


• Appendix II: Data Sources

Thomas Winzen is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Comparative and International Studies, ETH Zurich. Thomas' research interests encompass the study of European and parliamentary politics. Recent projects have focussed on the creation of international parliamentary institutions, parliamentary plenary debates, and differentiated European integration. His publications have appeared in prominent journals including the European Journal of Political Research, European Union Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies, and Journal of European Public Policy.