Preferences and Procedures European Union Legislative Decision-Making /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Selck, Torsten J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Subjects: Political science.; European Economic Community literature.; Social sciences.; Economics.; European Integration.; Political Science.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Social Sciences, general.

Preferences and Procedures presents and tests game-theoretic models of European Union legislative decision-making. It is inspired by the idea of linking statistical testing strategies firmly to formal models of EU policymaking. After describing salient features of the EU legislative process and comp...

Table of Contents:

• Conceptualizing the European Union Legislative Process: Some Insight from the Federalist Papers
• Assessing the Current State of the Spatial Models Literature
• Spatial Models of Politcs: An Introduction and a Comparison Using Computer Simulation
• A Data Set and an Analysis of France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom in EU Legislative Negotiations
• Between Power and Luck: The European Parliament in the EU Legislative Process
• Evaluating the Predictive Power of a Spatial Model for the European Union Legislative Process
• Summary and Conclusions.