The Political Economy of Collective Decision-Making Conflicts and Coalitions in the Council of the European Union /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Veen, Tim (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Θέματα: Political science.; Economic theory.; European Economic Community literature.; Social sciences.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Science.; European Integration.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.

 The Council of the European Union is the institutional heart of EU policy-making. But ‘who gets what, when and how’ in the Council? What are the dimensions of political conflict, and which countries form coalitions in the intense negotiations to achieve their desired policy outcomes? Focussing on collective decision-making in the Council between 1998 and 2007, this book provides a comprehensive account of these salient issues that lie at the heart of political accountability and legitimacy in the European Union. Based on a novel and unique dataset of estimates of government policy positions, salience and power in influencing deliberations, an explanatory model approximating the Nash-Bargaining solution is employed to predict the policy outcomes on ten policy domains of central importance to this institution. The book's analyses comprise investigations into the determinants of decision-making success, the architecture of the political space and the governments' coalition behavior. 

 Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Analysing Council Decision-Making -- 3 Power, Position and Salience -- 4 Dimensionality and Nature of Conflict -- 5 Coalitions in the Council -- 6 Winners and Losers of Decision-Making -- 7 The Council: Conflict and Coalitions -- References.