For decades the European Union tried changing its institutions,
but achieved only unsatisfying political compromises and modest,
incremental treaty revisions. In late 2009, however, the EU was
successfully reformed through the Treaty of Lisbon. "Reforming the
European Union" examines how political leaders ratified this treaty
against all odds and shows how this victory involved all stages of
treaty reform negotiations--from the initial proposal to
referendums in several European countries.
The authors emphasize the strategic role of political leadership
and domestic politics, and they use state-of-the-art methodology,
applying a comprehensive data set for actors' reform preferences.
They look at how political leaders reacted to apparent failures of
the process by recreating or changing the rules of the game. While
domestic actors played a significant role in the process, their
influence over the outcome was limited as leaders ignored negative
referendums and plowed ahead with intended reforms. The book's
empirical analyses shed light on critical episodes: strategic
agenda setting during the European Convention, the choice of
ratification instrument, intergovernmental bargaining dynamics, and
the reaction of the German Council presidency to the negative
referendums in France, the Netherlands, and Ireland.
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