TTIP and legislative‒executive relations in EU trade policy

Bibliographic Data

ID6405598
AuthorsDavor Jančić (0000-0002-6184-8326, Queen Mary University of London, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume40
Issue1
Pages202-221
Publication date2017-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueWest European Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0140-2382 • E-ISSN: 1743-9655
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01402382.2016.1240407
OpenAlexW2530179270
LanguageEN
Citations received20
References cited39

This paper analyses Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations in order to assess how the move towards tighter economic integration within the EU‒US strategic partnership impacts on legislative‒executive relations in EU trade policy. The analysis examines the institutional, substantive and party political dimensions of national parliaments' scrutiny of the Common Commercial Policy. Based on insights into both domestic and EU channels of parliamentary monitoring of TTIP negotiations, the paper argues that, although the government remains the central object of democratic control, the involvement of national parliaments in transatlantic trade extends to encompass the EU's own transatlantic and trade policies. This is rooted in the legislatures' legal capacity to constrain the executive in the negotiation, conclusion and, where applicable, ratification phases of EU trade agreements. It is argued that national parliamentary influence takes the shape of politicisation of the legitimacy of the expected policy outcomes of these agreements

Commercial policy · Economics · European union · Free trade · International trade · Legislature · Legitimacy · Negotiation · Parliament · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Ratification · Scrutiny · Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership · European Union Policy and Governance · International Arbitration and Investment Law · Law · World Trade Organization Law

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