Table of Contents

Introduction: Building Europe's Parliament
Part I: Theory
1: The Empowerment of the European Parliament: Lessons from the New Institutionalism and Democratic Theory
2: Parliamentary Institutions in International Polities: What are the Conditions?
Part II: The European Parliament's Power Trias
3: The Origins of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community
4: Budgetary Powers and the Treaty of Luxembourg
5: Legislative Powers and the Single European Act
6: From Maastricht to the Constitutional Treaty: The Return of National Parliaments?
Conclusion: No Integration without Representation?
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Reviews

"Building Europe's Parliament is an interesting study of the changes in the institutional framework of democracy that have been generated in the pursuit of a safer and more stable Europe. Rittberger is to be complimented for dealing directly and plainly with such questions in a more serious, more readable, and more optimistic format than most other writers on this theme." The International History Review