Robert Thomson / Frans N. Stokman / Christopher H. Achen / Thomas König (eds.)

The European Union Decides

Herausgeber: Thomson, Robert; Achen, Christopher H.; Stokman, Frans N.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 722g
• ISBN-13: 9780521861892
• ISBN-10: 0521861896
• Artikelnr.: 22744915

Autorenporträt

Robert Thomson is a Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Trinity College, Dublin.
Frans N. Stokman is Professor of Methods and Techniques of Social Scientific Research at the Department of Sociology, University of Groningen.
Christopher H. Achen is Professor of Politics at Princeton University.
Thomas König is Professor of Political Science at the German University of Administrative Sciences, Speyer.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Explaining legislative decision making in the European Union Robert
Thomson and Madeleine O. Hosli; 2. Research design: measuring actors'
positions' saliences and capabilities Robert Thomson and Frans N. Stokman;
3. Testing procedural models of EU legislative decision making Bernard
Steunenberg and Torsten Selck; 4. Institutional realism and bargaining
models Christopher H. Achen; 5. Compromise, exchange and challenge in the
European Union Javier Arregui, Frans N. Stokman and Robert Thomson; 6. Nash
versus Schelling? The importance of constraints in legislative bargaining
Stefanie Bailer and Gerald Schneider; 7. A cooperative approach to decision
making in the European Union Vincent Boekhoorn, Adrian Van Deemen and
Madeleine O. Hosli; 8. A procedural exchange model Thomas König and
Sven-Oliver Proksch; 9. Beyond informal compromise: testing conditional
formal procedures of EU decision making Mika Widgrén and Antti Pajala; 10.
Evaluating political decision making models Christopher H. Achen; 11.
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.