Cross-parliamentary Control

Unlike studies of the way legislation is made, parliamentary control across
multiple government systems – i.e. ‘cross-parliamentary control’ – has not yet
received systematic consideration. By cross-parliamentary control, I refer to
situations where a parliamentarian uses parliamentary control tools of one
government system to control the government in another. Based on the
literature on classical single-level control, previous studies of the question
activities carried out in the European Parliament, and an explorative case
study of cross-parliamentary control within the Danish Realm, this paper
highlights the potential prevalence of this unexplored phenomenon. Finally,
it sets forth four theses for how multi-level legislative control is prone to
manifest itself in other contexts.