Regional Accountability and Executive Power in Europe
Routledge Research in Constitutional Law Series

This book discusses the major issues currently affecting the accountability of executive power in Europe. The work is divided into three parts. The first examines the territorial dimension including unitary, regional and federal. It discusses how territorial actors participate in strengthening or weakening the implementation of accountability of executive power in modern democratic States. The second part explores the links between national traditions and European accountability of executive power to establish a common European culture. The third and final part focuses on how to build a truly multidisciplinary approach to accountability of executive power and draws on legal, historical and political approaches. The volume will be an invaluable resource for researchers, academics and policy-makers in constitutional law and politics, public law, comparative law, legal history and government.

Introduction

Marcel Morabito

Part I: The responsibility of the national Executive power from the point of view of local territories

Section 1: Theoretical Reflections

Chapter 1: A European perspective

Mercedes Bresso

Chapter 2: The responsibility of the national executive power in Germany

Claus Dieter Classen, Aurore Gaillet and Yoan Vilain

Chapter 3: Is calling upon the courts a way to acknowledge the responsibility of the Executive?

Virginie Donier

Section 2: Regional Realities

Chapter 4: The point of view of a State representative

Laurent Carrié

Chapter 5: The point of view of an elected official

André Viola

Conclusion: how do local actors participate in the strengthening or in the weakening of the holding to account of the Executive within modern democratic States?

Stéphane Mouton

Part II: National traditions and European culture

Section 3: What impact do the traditions of the Member States have on the European practice of responsibility?

Chapter 6: Are there common national traditions regarding the responsibility of the executive power?

Luigi Lacchè

Chapter 7: The accountability of the EU Commission as the EU’s Executive

Paolo Ponzano

Chapter 8: Political accountability and role splitting of the Executive in EU Member States

Jacques Ziller

Chapter 9: Political accountability within the European system

Fabienne Peraldi-Leneuf

Section 4: A common culture? National traditions, European challenges

Questionnaire

Julien Padovani and Emilien Quinart

Chapter 10: Parliamentarianism and accountability of the executive power on a European scale: the experience of the European Parliament

Juan Fernando López Aguilar

Chapter 11: The scent of wild animals

Sophie in’t Veld

Conclusion: On political responsibility and political control in the European Union

Jean-Paul Jacqué

Part III: Diversity of legal approaches

Section 5: Democratic perspectives

Chapter 12: The European convergence of the strengthening of the executive power

Hanan Qazbir

Chapter 13: Responsibility, accountability and legitimacy of Executives: what role for the people?

Audrey Bachert-Peretti

Section 6: Disciplinary specificities

Chapter 14: Administrative responsibility and responsibility of the Executive

Hafida Belrhali

Chapter 15: Understanding responsibility through the issues of the environment: towards a bilateral conception of responsibility?

Malik Bozzo-Rey

Chapter 16: A perspective on civil responsibility

Jean-Baptiste Donnier

Chapter 17: Responsibility of the Executive: cross-read approaches

Amaia Errecart

Chapter 18: The unique nature of political responsibility

Cécile Guérin-Bargues

Chapter19: Responsibility and sports: some remarks on a particular couple

Clémentine Legendre

Chapter 20: The difficulty of thinking about executive responsibility in a republic: a historical perspective

François Quastana

Chapter 21: Of sheep and straw men: the accountability of the Executive from the perspective of political science

Olivier Rozenberg

Conclusion: For a common concept of ‘responsibility’ from a multidisciplinary perspective

Xavier Magnon

Concluding Remarks: a kaleidoscopic approach to make (necessary) interdisciplinary communication possible

Guillaume Tusseau

Marcel Morabito is Professor Emeritus of Legal History at Sciences Po, Paris, and member of the Institut Louis Favoreu, Aix-Marseille University, France.

Guillaume Tusseau is Professor of Public Law at Sciences Po Law School, Paris, Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France.