The role of national parliaments in EU matters has become an important subject in the debate over the democratic legitimacy of European Union decision-making. This volume therefore aims at providing a comprehensive overview of the activities of national parliaments in the post-Lisbon Treaty era. This book was originally published as a special issue of West European Politics.

1. After Lisbon: National Parliaments in the European Union 2. To Scrutinise or Not to Scrutinise? Explaining Variation in EU-Related Activities in National Parliaments 3. Beyond Institutional Capacity: Political Motivation and Parliamentary Behaviour in the Early Warning System 4. National Parliaments after Lisbon: Administrations on the Rise? 5. Who Controls National EU Scrutiny? Parliamentary Party Groups, Committees and Administrations 6. National Parliaments and the Eurozone Crisis: Taking Ownership in Difficult Times? 7. Executive Privilege Reaffirmed? Parliamentary Scrutiny of the CFSP and CSDP

Katrin Auel is Associate Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria. Her research interests include Europeanisation, the democratic legitimacy of multilevel governance and legislative studies with a particular focus on the role of national parliaments in the EU. She has published in journals such as Journal of Legislative Studies, Journal of Common Market Studies, German Politics, The European Law Journal and Comparative European Politics.

Thomas Christiansen is Professor of European Institutional Politics and Co-Director of the Maastricht Centre for European Governance at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. He is Executive Editor of the Journal of European Integration and co-editor of the 'European Administration Governance' book series. Among his recent books are Constitutionalizing the European Union (co-authored with Christine Reh, 2009) and The Maastricht Treaty: Second Thoughts after 20 Years (co-edited with Simon Duke, 2012).