decision-making

This strand of research looks 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.

The EUPOL (Version 5) dataset includes virtually all information contained in the European Commission’s online database PreLex. The mission of PreLex was to monitor the inter-institutional decision-making process of the EU, providing information about various formal events and institutional actors involved in policy-making, as well as cross-references to documents contained in other online databases. In combination with its long-term coverage, starting in the mid 1970s, PreLex is a useful source of information for studies of long-term developments in EU politics and European integration.

Negotiations in the Council of the European Union take place in an environment that is relatively unstructured by formal rules and …

Many of the decisions made in the Council of the European Union are based on qualified majority voting, in which EU legislation can be …

One of the explicit goals of the Lisbon Treaty was to enhance the ‘efficiency and democratic legitimacy of the Union’. To increase the …

Most existing formal theories of group choice focus on predicting the outcome of decisionmaking. However, the duration of …

This study presents reliable cross-sectoral data on the relative involvement of working parties, senior committees and ministers in …

Committees of national officials play a major role in the decision-making of the European Union’s main legislative body, the …