Making representative democracy work: the role of parliamentary administrations in the European Union

• Christiansen, Thomas ^[1] ; Griglio, Elena ^[1] ; Lupo, Nicola ^[1]
  1. [1] Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Libera Universita Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli, Roma, Italy
• Localización: The Journal of legislative studies, ISSN 1357-2334, Vol. 27, Nº. 4, 2021 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Administering Representative Democracy: The European Experience of Parliamentary Administrations in Comparative Perspective), págs. 477-493
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  • The article introduces the special issue on ‘Administering Representative Democracy. The European Experience of Parliamentary Administrations in Comparative Perspective’, explaining how it seeks to make a major addition to the study of parliaments as well as of public administration. It specifically aims at demonstrating that parliamentary bureaucracies are ‘silent’ organisations playing a fundamentally serving function, and yet they offer a crucial contribution to the well-functioning of representative assemblies. It explores the distinctive nature of this subject matter in Europe, and in this way ties into the wider debates about the functioning of representative democracy.