Preferences and Procedures: European Union Legislative Decision-Making

✍ Scribed by Torsten J. Selck (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 106
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 comparing different models of how the EU negotiates new legislative measures, the models' predictive power is evaluated. On a more general level, Preferences and Procedures answers questions regarding the empirically recognizable effects of institutional arrangements on joint bargaining outcomes.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction....Pages 1-18
Conceptualizing the European Union Legislative Process: Some Insight from the Federalist Papers ....Pages 19-29
Assessing the Current State of the Spatial Models Literature....Pages 31-37
Spatial Models of Politcs: An Introduction and a Comparison Using Computer Simulation....Pages 38-47
A Data Set and an Analysis of France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom in EU Legislative Negotiations....Pages 48-57
Between Power and Luck: The European Parliament in the EU Legislative Process....Pages 58-71
Evaluating the Predictive Power of a Spatial Model for the European Union Legislative Process....Pages 72-80
Summary and Conclusions....Pages 81-84

✦ Subjects

European Integration; Political Science; Methodology of the Social Sciences; Social Sciences, general