The Representative Relationship of Local Government Councillors’ to the European Union

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dc.contributor.authorSaltis, Catherine
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-09T08:49:19Z
dc.date.available2021-03-09T08:49:19Z
dc.date.issued2020-10
dc.description.abstractThe creation of a policy-making body, with legal powers to override the decisions of the member states, has profound implications for local politics. The thesis explores how a group of councillors in England have responded to and relate to the impact of the European Union on local government in order to enhance their and their councils influence in European wide policy development towards local government. The importance and power of the EU and the implications of its influence on local government and the councillor is a significant issue for local democracy. Regions and local authorities and the councillors within them have an important role to play in the European policy-making system. The thesis explores how and to what effect councillors are creating or utilising opportunities to engage with EU activity. The thesis addresses the question of how councillors view their role in relation to the EU and contributes towards the current knowledge of councillor role theory. The thesis provides an examination of those councillors who actively engage in EU affairs and of what that small elite group of local actors that engage in European affairs seek to achieve. Those councillors that are actively engaged with the EU are reshaping their roles and are outward facing, looking for opportunities to enhance their and their councils influence with policy decision makers at EU level. The study explores the implications, for their representative role, for those councillors who do not engage with EU activity and considers how they might if possible and to what extent, be involved. The thesis provides deep and rich research material illustrating for the first time how the various influences on councillors with regard to their level of involvement with the EU determines their role and behaviour and subsequently their decision to engage or not at differing levels with EU activity. The findings show that councillors adopt one of four approaches towards the EU each of which, in different ways, have implications for their role as the elected representative of their communities.en
dc.identifier.urihttps://dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/20683
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherDe Montfort Universityen
dc.publisher.departmentFaculty of Business and Lawen
dc.titleThe Representative Relationship of Local Government Councillors’ to the European Unionen
dc.typeThesis or dissertationen
dc.type.qualificationlevelMastersen
dc.type.qualificationnameMPhilen

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