Decision-making in the Council of the European Union

Last updated on 2 Aug 2022

This strand of research look at various aspects of decision-making within in the Council of the European Union, including the measurement of actor preferences, their powers with respect to agenda-setting and bargaining, and the production of particular procedural outcomes, such as consensual decisions.

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Frank M. Häge
Frank M. Häge
Political Scientist

Senior Lecturer at the University of Limerick. Interested in Legislative Politics, European Union Politics, and Historical Political Economy.

Publications

The Presidency of the Council of the European Union

The Presidency of the Council is one of the most important leadership positions in the institutional setup of the European Union (EU). …

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The Presidency of the Council of the European Union
Allocating political attention in the EU’s foreign and security policy: The effect of supranational agenda-setters
Supranational bureaucracies are often promoted as a solution to collective action problems. In the European Union context, investing …
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Allocating political attention in the EU’s foreign and security policy: The effect of supranational agenda-setters
The Presidency of the Council of the European Union

The Presidency plays a crucial role in the management and organization of the Council of the European Union’s work and the …

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The Presidency of the Council of the European Union
The scheduling power of the EU Council Presidency
Does the Presidency of the Council of the European Union have the ability to direct the political attention of this body by emphasizing …
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The scheduling power of the EU Council Presidency
Data on political attention in the Council illustrates the EU’s failure to proactively address major crises
When government ministers meet in the Council of the European Union, what determines the level of attention they direct toward …
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Data on political attention in the Council illustrates the EU’s failure to proactively address major crises
Political attention in the Council of the European Union: A new dataset of working party meetings, 1995-2014
Little firm knowledge exists about the allocation of the Council’s political attention across policy areas and over time. This …
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Political attention in the Council of the European Union: A new dataset of working party meetings, 1995-2014
Bargaining power in informal decision-making in the Council of the European Union
Negotiations in the Council of the European Union take place in an environment that is relatively unstructured by formal rules and …
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Bargaining power in informal decision-making in the Council of the European Union
Scaling Policy Preferences from Negotiation Position Networks in the Council of the European Union
Normative evaluations and positive studies of legislative politics often require information about actors’ policy positions. This study …
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Scaling Policy Preferences from Negotiation Position Networks in the Council of the European Union
The Lisbon Treaty’s change to Council voting rules will have important implications for the democratic legitimacy of the EU
Many of the decisions made in the Council of the European Union are based on qualified majority voting, in which EU legislation can be …
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The Lisbon Treaty’s change to Council voting rules will have important implications for the democratic legitimacy of the EU
Coalition Building and Consensus in the Council of the European Union
Although qualified-majority voting is possible, member states in the Council of the European Union (EU) still adopt most policies by …
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Coalition Building and Consensus in the Council of the European Union
Decisions made by consensus in the Council of the European Union emerge from the coalition-building behaviour of individual governments.
Despite the use of qualified majority voting, a high percentage of decisions in the Council of the European Union are still made by …
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Decisions made by consensus in the Council of the European Union emerge from the coalition-building behaviour of individual governments.
The Duration of Multilateral Negotiations in the Council of the European Union
Most existing formal theories of group choice focus on predicting the outcome of decisionmaking. However, the duration of …
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The Duration of Multilateral Negotiations in the Council of the European Union
The European Union Policy-Making Dataset
This article introduces the European Union Policy - Making (EUPOL) dataset. The dataset contains the complete records of the European …
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The European Union Policy-Making Dataset