Overview

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.

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Author:   Tim Veen
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   2011 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9783642201738

ISBN 10:   3642201733
Pages:   199
Publication Date:   28 July 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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.

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Tim Veen studied International Relations & International Organization at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He completed this course cum laude with a Masters degree in 2007. From 2007 to 2010, he was a PhD-fellow in the Methods and Data Institute of the University of Nottingham. In 2010, he has been inferred upon honorary membership in Phi Sigma Omega, the honors society of policy scholars and worked as a policy consultant for the OECD.

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