Identifying and explaining capacities as determinants of EP’s legislative outputs

Arregui, Javier; Peñalver, Nereo

Identifying and explaining capacities as determinants of EP’s legislative outputs

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Arregui, J, Peñalver, N. Identifying and explaining capacities as determinants of EP’s legislative outputs. 2023. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/57913

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Abstract

Academics discovered their interest for the European Parliament only recently, when treaties increased the legislative competences of the institution. Until today, a comprehensive theory for the power structures and the main determinants of influence in the EP legislative process is missing. This is an exploratory paper that tries first to identify the main sources of power and influence within the EP in a systematic way, and secondly, to explore how these mechanisms actually operate in a case study about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2016/679. The paper shows, among other things, that in a majority of cases structural sources of power are the most relevant ones, then institutional and finally individual capacities.