The European Union decides / edited by Robert Thomson [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thomson, Robert, 1972- editor.

Series:

Political economy of institutions and decisions.

Political economy of institutions and decisions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decision making--European Union countries.

Decision making.

Legislation--European Union countries.

Legislation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 372 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

European legislation affects countless aspects of daily life in modern Europe but just how does the European Union make such significant legislative decisions? How important are the formal decision-making procedures in defining decision outcomes and how important is the bargaining that takes place among the actors involved? Using a combination of detailed evidence and theoretical rigour, this volume addresses these questions and others that are central to understanding how the EU works in practice. It focuses on the practice of day-to-day decision-making in Brussels and the interactions that take place among the Member States in the Council and among the Commission, the Council and the European Parliament. A unique data set of actual Commission proposals are examined against which the authors develop, apply and test a range of explanatory models of decision-making, exemplifying how to study decision-making in other political systems using advanced theoretical tools and appropriate research design.

Contents:

Explaining legislative decision making in the European Union / Robert Thomson and Madeleine O. Hosli

Research design : measuring actors' positions, saliences and capabilities / Robert Thomson and Frans N. Stokman

Testing procedural models of EU legislative decision-making / Bernard Steunenberg and Torsten J. Selck

Institutional realism and bargaining models / Christopher H. Achen

Compromise, exchange and challenge in the European Union / Javier Arregui, Frans N. Stokman and Robert Thomson

Nash versus Schelling? : the importance of constraints in legislative bargaining / Stefanie Bailer and Gerald Schneider

A cooperative approach to decision-making in the European Union / Vincent Boekhoorn, Adrian M.A. Van Deemen and Madeleine O. Hosli

A procedural exchange model of EU legislative politics / Thomas König and Sven Oliver Proksch

Beyond informal compromise : testing conditional formal procedures of EU decision-making / Mika Widgrén and Antti Pajala

Evaluating political decision-making models / Christopher H. Achen

Evidence with insight : what models contribute to EU research / Gerald Schneider, Bernard Steunenberg and Mika Widgrén

Appendix I : selection of commission proposals

Appendix II : comparison of expert judgements with each other and with information from Council documentation / Robert Thomson

References

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-16838-4

1-280-70269-9

0-511-24624-2

0-511-24693-5

0-511-24478-9

0-511-31880-4

0-511-49208-1

0-511-24553-X

OCLC:

252529465