Academic Journal
Politicising Council decision-making: the effect of European Parliament empowerment
| Title: | Politicising Council decision-making: the effect of European Parliament empowerment |
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| Authors: | Häge, Frank M. |
| Publisher Information: | Taylor and Francis |
| Publication Year: | 2015 |
| Collection: | University of Limerick: Institutional Repository (ULIR) |
| Subject Terms: | conditional agenda setter, legislative politics, working gropus, consultation procedure, union, codecision, committee, power |
| Description: | peer-reviewed ; Research on the intra-institutional consequences of differences in the EU's inter-institutional rule configurations is rare. This study investigates the effect of the empowerment of the European Parliament (EP) on the active involvement of ministers in Council decision-making. The empowerment of the EP is likely to increase the incentives for bureaucrats in the Council's preparatory bodies to refer decisions on legislative dossiers to ministers. The empirical analysis examines this claim with data on about 6,000 legislative decision-making processes that were concluded between 1980 and the end of 2007. The analysis demonstrates a strong and robust association between the type of legislative procedure and different decision-making levels in the Council: a more powerful EP makes Council decision-making more politicised. ; ACCEPTED ; peer-reviewed |
| Document Type: | article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: | English |
| Relation: | West European Politics;34 (1), pp. 18-47; http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2011.523542; http://hdl.handle.net/10344/4344 |
| Availability: | https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2011.523542 http://hdl.handle.net/10344/4344 |
| Rights: | This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article whose final and definitive form, the Version of Record, has been published in the West European Politics 2011 © Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2011.523542 ; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Accession Number: | edsbas.DE2EE933 |
| Database: | BASE |
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