TY - JOUR

T1 - Towards the first ever supranational election commission? A neofunctionalist analysis of the making of the EU electoral authority

AU - Grishin, Nikolai

AU - Leenders, Anna Maria R.

N1 - Funding Information: The political elites of some Member States became the most active supporters of the proposed reform. During the discussions in 2017–2018 of the question of the fate of parliamentary seats from the UK, the proposal to introduce transnational lists, and create the EU electoral authority was supported by the governments of Italy and Ireland. Publisher Copyright: © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - This article examines perspectives on the creation of the first supranational electoral management body. Initiatives to establish the EU Electoral Authority directly derive from the proposal of introducing transnational lists for the European Parliament elections. In the academic literature, there is a tendency to overlook what the proposed electoral reform entails for EU policy in the area of electoral governance. To address this issue, neofunctionalism is applied as a means to provide a systemic interpretation of the process of creating the EU Electoral Authority. Insights into the dynamics and countervailing forces driving the establishment of EU electoral governance considerably deepen our understanding of how electoral regulations develop at the level of the EU.

AB - This article examines perspectives on the creation of the first supranational electoral management body. Initiatives to establish the EU Electoral Authority directly derive from the proposal of introducing transnational lists for the European Parliament elections. In the academic literature, there is a tendency to overlook what the proposed electoral reform entails for EU policy in the area of electoral governance. To address this issue, neofunctionalism is applied as a means to provide a systemic interpretation of the process of creating the EU Electoral Authority. Insights into the dynamics and countervailing forces driving the establishment of EU electoral governance considerably deepen our understanding of how electoral regulations develop at the level of the EU.

KW - electoral authority

KW - electoral governance

KW - Electoral management bodies

KW - EU integration

KW - neofunctionalism

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U2 - 10.1080/23745118.2020.1857642

DO - 10.1080/23745118.2020.1857642

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85097832257

VL - 23

SP - 210

EP - 222

JO - European Politics and Society

JF - European Politics and Society

SN - 2374-5118

IS - 2

ER -