Aleksandra Maatsch
Biographic Data
| ID | 4381713 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aleksandra Maatsch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aleksandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Maatsch |
| SIGNATURE | MAATSCH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wrocław |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0408-2176 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 118 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Continuity or change? Domestic ratifications of the European Financial Stability Facility and the Own Resources Decision
This article compares domestic ratifications of two major EU crisis-response measures: the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), adopted during the euro-area sovereign debt crisis, and the Own Resources Decision (ORD), adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic. It asks whether parliamentary party support varies across asymmetric and symmetric crises, as commonly assumed in the literature. The analysis reveals a strong pattern of continuity: le…
Das politische System Polens
This textbook presents the Polish political system, focusing especially on the country’s domestic political changes since the PiS party came to power. The authors analyse, among other things, Poland’s shift from political liberalism to an illiberal democracy. In particular, the book explains the political institutions, but also discusses individual policy areas that are essential for German-speaking readers to know about in order for them to unde…
Between collective and particularistic interests. Ratification of the Prespa Agreement by national parliaments in Greece and North Macedonia
This article examines Greece and North Macedonia’s parliamentary ratifications of the Prespa Agreement. Given the decisive role of national parliaments in the process of the agreement’s success, the article investigates to what extent this specific institutional setting influenced the dispute concerning the bilateral agreement. The article poses the following question: which factors explain support and opposition towards the agreement within the …
Rising to a Challenge? Ten Years of Parliamentary Accountability of the European Semester
As a result of the euro crisis, EU economic governance has been reformed and EU institutions have gained new competences regarding national budgets, with the European Semester (the annual cycle of economic surveillance of the member states) being the most prominent example. With the Commission and the Council being the main actors, and the European Parliament playing only a minor role, a debate about the democratic legitimacy of the Semester and …
Disempowerment through the Backdoor
Do populist governments disempower parliaments? If so, which strategies do they employ to do it? The empirical analysis here concerns two legislative periods in Poland: T1 2011–2015 (centre-right coalition, populist actors in the opposition) and T2 2015–2018 (populist government). The article traces changes in formal rules regulating scrutiny and law-making but also how these rules were interpreted and exercised. The article addresses the followi…
Representative Democracy in Danger? The Impact of Populist Parties in Government on the Powers and Practices of National Parliaments
Over recent years, probably no other phenomenon has received greater academic attention amongst scholars of political science than populism. While the meaning of the term continues to generate deep controversies,1 there is a broad consensus on populism constituting one of the most serious challenges to contemporary politics. This special issue investigates how the electoral success of populist parties has impacted on the powers and practices of n…
Governance Without Democracy? Analysing the Role of Parliaments in European Economic Governance after the Crisis
Published: 19 July 2017
Effectiveness of the European Semester
Which factors explain domestic consent or contestation of European Union (EU) policy guidance issued within the framework of the European Semester (ES)? To address this question, this article analyses national parliamentary party positions on EU policy guidance in two cycles of the ES (2014 and 2015) in Austria, France, Germany and Ireland. Whereas parliamentary parties in Austria and Ireland expressed their consent to EU policy guidance, parliam…
Drivers of political parties’ voting behaviour in European economic governance
The article examines the factors that determined the attitude of parliamentary parties towards eurozone anti-crisis measures. Using a statistical logit model, it demonstrates that, while all governing parties supported such measures, opposition parties were divided. The support of the former is explicable in terms of international obligations. The positions of opposition parties reflected their attitude towards European integration: Eurosceptic p…
Are we all austerians now? An analysis of national parliamentary parties' positioning on anti-crisis measures in the eurozone
Which factors account for positioning of national parliamentary parties on anti-crisis measures implemented in the bailout states of the eurozone? The literature suggests that parties representing the economic 'left' are more likely to advocate Keynesian measures, whereas parties representing the economic 'right' tend to support the neoliberal ones. However, the current political discourse suggests that the choice of anti-crisis policies rather r…
In a Spirit of Solidarity? Justifying the European Financial Stability Facility ( EFSF ) in National Parliamentary Debates
This article examines national parliamentarians’ approval of the increased budgetary capacity of the E uropean F inancial S tability F acility ( EFSF ) in autumn 2011. Following the analysis of vote outcome and plenary debates in 11 euro states, it is found that the financial position of a state (creditors versus debtors) does not explain the patterns of support and opposition. Rather, two other factors account for these differences: Eurosceptici…
In a Spirit of Solidarity? Justifying the European Financial Stability Facility ( EFSF ) in National Parliamentary Debates
This article examines national parliamentarians’ approval of the increased budgetary capacity of the E uropean F inancial S tability F acility ( EFSF ) in autumn 2011. Following the analysis of vote outcome and plenary debates in 11 euro states, it is found that the financial position of a state (creditors versus debtors) does not explain the patterns of support and opposition. Rather, two other factors account for these differences: Eurosceptici…
Are we all austerians now? An analysis of national parliamentary parties' positioning on anti-crisis measures in the eurozone
Which factors account for positioning of national parliamentary parties on anti-crisis measures implemented in the bailout states of the eurozone? The literature suggests that parties representing the economic 'left' are more likely to advocate Keynesian measures, whereas parties representing the economic 'right' tend to support the neoliberal ones. However, the current political discourse suggests that the choice of anti-crisis policies rather r…
Effectiveness of the European Semester
Which factors explain domestic consent or contestation of European Union (EU) policy guidance issued within the framework of the European Semester (ES)? To address this question, this article analyses national parliamentary party positions on EU policy guidance in two cycles of the ES (2014 and 2015) in Austria, France, Germany and Ireland. Whereas parliamentary parties in Austria and Ireland expressed their consent to EU policy guidance, parliam…
Governance Without Democracy? Analysing the Role of Parliaments in European Economic Governance after the Crisis
Published: 19 July 2017
Drivers of political parties’ voting behaviour in European economic governance
The article examines the factors that determined the attitude of parliamentary parties towards eurozone anti-crisis measures. Using a statistical logit model, it demonstrates that, while all governing parties supported such measures, opposition parties were divided. The support of the former is explicable in terms of international obligations. The positions of opposition parties reflected their attitude towards European integration: Eurosceptic p…
Disempowerment through the Backdoor
Do populist governments disempower parliaments? If so, which strategies do they employ to do it? The empirical analysis here concerns two legislative periods in Poland: T1 2011–2015 (centre-right coalition, populist actors in the opposition) and T2 2015–2018 (populist government). The article traces changes in formal rules regulating scrutiny and law-making but also how these rules were interpreted and exercised. The article addresses the followi…
Representative Democracy in Danger? The Impact of Populist Parties in Government on the Powers and Practices of National Parliaments
Over recent years, probably no other phenomenon has received greater academic attention amongst scholars of political science than populism. While the meaning of the term continues to generate deep controversies,1 there is a broad consensus on populism constituting one of the most serious challenges to contemporary politics. This special issue investigates how the electoral success of populist parties has impacted on the powers and practices of n…
Are we all austerians now? An analysis of national parliamentary parties' positioning on anti-crisis measures in the eurozone
Which factors account for positioning of national parliamentary parties on anti-crisis measures implemented in the bailout states of the eurozone? The literature suggests that parties representing the economic 'left' are more likely to advocate Keynesian measures, whereas parties representing the economic 'right' tend to support the neoliberal ones. However, the current political discourse suggests that the choice of anti-crisis policies rather r…
In a Spirit of Solidarity? Justifying the European Financial Stability Facility ( EFSF ) in National Parliamentary Debates
This article examines national parliamentarians’ approval of the increased budgetary capacity of the E uropean F inancial S tability F acility ( EFSF ) in autumn 2011. Following the analysis of vote outcome and plenary debates in 11 euro states, it is found that the financial position of a state (creditors versus debtors) does not explain the patterns of support and opposition. Rather, two other factors account for these differences: Eurosceptici…
Drivers of political parties’ voting behaviour in European economic governance
The article examines the factors that determined the attitude of parliamentary parties towards eurozone anti-crisis measures. Using a statistical logit model, it demonstrates that, while all governing parties supported such measures, opposition parties were divided. The support of the former is explicable in terms of international obligations. The positions of opposition parties reflected their attitude towards European integration: Eurosceptic p…
Governance Without Democracy? Analysing the Role of Parliaments in European Economic Governance after the Crisis
Published: 19 July 2017
Effectiveness of the European Semester
Which factors explain domestic consent or contestation of European Union (EU) policy guidance issued within the framework of the European Semester (ES)? To address this question, this article analyses national parliamentary party positions on EU policy guidance in two cycles of the ES (2014 and 2015) in Austria, France, Germany and Ireland. Whereas parliamentary parties in Austria and Ireland expressed their consent to EU policy guidance, parliam…
Between collective and particularistic interests. Ratification of the Prespa Agreement by national parliaments in Greece and North Macedonia
This article examines Greece and North Macedonia’s parliamentary ratifications of the Prespa Agreement. Given the decisive role of national parliaments in the process of the agreement’s success, the article investigates to what extent this specific institutional setting influenced the dispute concerning the bilateral agreement. The article poses the following question: which factors explain support and opposition towards the agreement within the …
Rising to a Challenge? Ten Years of Parliamentary Accountability of the European Semester
As a result of the euro crisis, EU economic governance has been reformed and EU institutions have gained new competences regarding national budgets, with the European Semester (the annual cycle of economic surveillance of the member states) being the most prominent example. With the Commission and the Council being the main actors, and the European Parliament playing only a minor role, a debate about the democratic legitimacy of the Semester and …
Disempowerment through the Backdoor
Do populist governments disempower parliaments? If so, which strategies do they employ to do it? The empirical analysis here concerns two legislative periods in Poland: T1 2011–2015 (centre-right coalition, populist actors in the opposition) and T2 2015–2018 (populist government). The article traces changes in formal rules regulating scrutiny and law-making but also how these rules were interpreted and exercised. The article addresses the followi…
Representative Democracy in Danger? The Impact of Populist Parties in Government on the Powers and Practices of National Parliaments
Over recent years, probably no other phenomenon has received greater academic attention amongst scholars of political science than populism. While the meaning of the term continues to generate deep controversies,1 there is a broad consensus on populism constituting one of the most serious challenges to contemporary politics. This special issue investigates how the electoral success of populist parties has impacted on the powers and practices of n…
Das politische System Polens
This textbook presents the Polish political system, focusing especially on the country’s domestic political changes since the PiS party came to power. The authors analyse, among other things, Poland’s shift from political liberalism to an illiberal democracy. In particular, the book explains the political institutions, but also discusses individual policy areas that are essential for German-speaking readers to know about in order for them to unde…
Continuity or change? Domestic ratifications of the European Financial Stability Facility and the Own Resources Decision
This article compares domestic ratifications of two major EU crisis-response measures: the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), adopted during the euro-area sovereign debt crisis, and the Own Resources Decision (ORD), adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic. It asks whether parliamentary party support varies across asymmetric and symmetric crises, as commonly assumed in the literature. The analysis reveals a strong pattern of continuity: le…
Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Public Administration (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Public Administration (7 works) · European union (6 works)