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

• Main Author: Veen, Tim (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Subjects: 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 co...

Table of Contents:

• 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.