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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherSpringer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg Gmbh & Co. Kg
ISBN-139783642201738
eBay Product ID (ePID)106491295
Product Key Features
Number of Pages199 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameThe Political Economy of Collective Decision-Making: Conflicts and Coalitions in the Council of the European Union
Publication Year2011
SubjectEconomics
TypeTextbook
AuthorTim Veen
Subject AreaSocial Research, Country, Political Science
Dimensions
Item Height235 mm
Item Weight500 g
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Country/Region of ManufactureGermany
Title_AuthorTim Veen