Centre-left parties and the European Union : power, accountability and democracy / Isabelle Hertner.

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Tables of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Centre-left parties and the European Union; Methodology; Structure of the book; Notes; 2 Labour, the PS, and the SPD: organising for multi-level governance; The Labour Party: history and organisation; Labour on the ground; Labour in central office; Labour in public office; The Parti Socialiste: history and organisation; The PS on the ground; The PS in central office; The PS in public office; The SPD: history and organisation; The SPD on the ground.

The SPD in central officeThe SPD in public office; The Party of European Socialists; The PES on the ground; The PES in central office; The PES in public office; Conclusions; Notes; 3 The European policies of the Labour Party, the PS, and the SPD; The Labour Party and the EU: from rejection to approval to ambivalence; It's in the national interest: Labour's policies about the EU; It's all about reform: Labour's policies through the EU; To leave or not to leave? Labour and the 2016 EU referendum; The Parti Socialiste and the EU: je t'aime moi non plus.

Raising France's status: the PS's policies about the EUThe fight for 'Social Europe': the PS's policies through the EU; Outsourcing the EU debate? The PS's EU strategy; The SPD and the EU: Deutschlands Europapartei?; Widening and deepening the EU: the SPD's policies about the EU; What's left? The SPD's policies through the EU; German or European? The SPD's recent EU strategy; Conclusions; Notes; 4 Principals, agents, and the delegation of power inside political parties; The principal-agent relationship and political parties in the EU; How to control the agent(s)?

Power delegation inside the Labour Party, the PS, and the SPDFormulating European policy; Selecting MEP candidates and other EU specialists; Research questions and expectations; The legal regulation of party organisations; EU positions and EU strategy; Resources; Being in government or opposition; Conclusions; 5 Cheerleaders or players? Centre-left parties on the ground and the EU; Selecting MEP candidates: the Labour Party; Selecting MEP candidates: the Parti Socialiste; Selecting MEP candidates: the SPD; European policy-making: the Labour Party; European policy-making: the Parti Socialiste.

European policy-making: the SPDConclusions; Note; 6 Lions or toothless tigers? The parties in central office and the EU; The Labour Party in central office and the EU; The Parti Socialiste in central office and the EU; The SPD in central office and the EU; Conclusions; Note; 7 Winners or losers? The parties in public office and the EU; The Parliamentary Labour Party and the EU; Labour MPs as agents?; The Parti Socialiste's parliamentary group and the EU; Socialist MPs as agents?; The SPD Bundestagsfraktion and the EU; The SPD's MPs as agents?; Conclusions; Notes.

This book investigates how the British Labour Party, the French Socialist Party (PS), and the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) deal with the European Union (EU).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-196) and index.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 28, 2018).

In English.

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