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This pathbreaking book illuminates the politics of issue resolution
within the European Community with evaluations and comparisons of
competing models of decision making across twenty-two policy
issues. Written by American and Dutch scholars, the book will be of
great interest to students of comparative politics, public policy
analysts, mathematic modelers, and all those concerned with the
development of the European Community. One set of models explored
in this volume - the expected utility model - treats politics as a
conflictual activity, while the other, the exchange or log rolling
model, emphasizes the cooperative nature of political processes.
The alternative approaches model decision making in fundamentally
different ways and make very different predictions about how issues
in the European Community will be resolved. To facilitate direct
comparison of their predictive and explanatory value, the models in
this volume are based on the same variables: the potential control
of actors over outcomes, the salience of the issues for the actors,
and the outcomes preferred by the actors. The contributors test
their models in the context of sixteen issues already resolved by
the Council of Ministers and six issues currently under
consideration, providing the reader with considerable knowledge
about the controversies surrounding European Community policy on
such topics as automobile emissions, nuclear radiation norms, air
transport liberalization, and the European banking system. They
conclude that the conflictual model and the cooperative model are
less competitive and more complementary than has been thought, and
they explain in detail how the models can be fruitfully combined.
European legislation affects countless aspects of daily life in
modern Europe but just how does the European Union make such
significant legislative decisions? How important are the formal
decision-making procedures in defining decision outcomes and how
important is the bargaining that takes place among the actors
involved? Using a combination of detailed evidence and theoretical
rigour, this volume addresses these questions and others that are
central to understanding how the EU works in practice. It focuses
on the practice of day-to-day decision-making in Brussels and the
interactions that take place among the Member States in the Council
and among the Commission, the Council and the European Parliament.
A unique data set of actual Commission proposals are examined
against which the authors develop, apply and test a range of
explanatory models of decision-making, exemplifying how to study
decision-making in other political systems using advanced
theoretical tools and appropriate research design.
European legislation affects countless aspects of daily life in
modern Europe but just how does the European Union make such
significant legislative decisions? How important are the formal
decision-making procedures in defining decision outcomes and how
important is the bargaining that takes place among the actors
involved? Using a combination of detailed evidence and theoretical
rigour, this volume addresses these questions and others that are
central to understanding how the EU works in practice. It focuses
on the practice of day-to-day decision-making in Brussels and the
interactions that take place among the Member States in the Council
and among the Commission, the Council and the European Parliament.
A unique data set of actual Commission proposals are examined
against which the authors develop, apply and test a range of
explanatory models of decision-making, exemplifying how to study
decision-making in other political systems using advanced
theoretical tools and appropriate research design.
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