Preferences and Procedures European Union Legislative Decision-Makin
Preferences and Procedures presents and tests game-theoretic models of European Union legislative decision-making. It is inspired by the idea of linking statistical testing strategies firmly to formal models of EU policymaking. After describing salient fe
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Torsten J. Selck
PREFERENCES AND PROCEDURES
Preferences and Procedures European Union Legislative Decision-Making
by
TORSTEN J. SELCK University of Groningen, The Netherlands
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To my parents
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The legislature is itself a part of the constitution which is presupposed by it and to that extent lies absolutely outside the sphere directly determined by it; none the less, the constitution becomes progressively more mature in the course of the further elaboration of the laws and the advancing character of the universal business of government. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1821, Philosophy of Right [§298]
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank Bernard Steunenberg, Christopher H. Achen, Javier Arregui, Frans N. Stokman, Robert Thomson, Mika Widgén, Antti Pajala, Vincent Boekhoorn, Ad van Deemen, Madeleine Hosli, Thomas König, Sven-Oliver Proksch, Stefanie Bailer, and Gerald Schneider for research support. I also thank Constanze Kathan, Mark Rhinard, Ellen Mastenbroek, Jörg E. Noll, Emily Lewis, and Björn T. Selck for commenting on earlier versions of this book, and Marijn Huijbregts and Leo van Nierop for helping in implementing parts of the software and in computing some of the results. Financial assistance from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), the Leiden University Fund (LUF), and the Dutch National Membership of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is gratefully acknowledged. The data-gathering for this book was conducted within the framework of the Decision-Making in the European Union research project and was coordinated by Robert Thomson and Frans N. Stokman. The data set which has been used for this study has been made publicly available for replication at the Steinmetz Archive, the Netherlands national social science data archive (http://www2.niwi.knaw.nl). I thank Blackwell Publishing, Accedo Verlagsgesellschaft, Palgrave Macmillan, the Taylor and Francis Group, and Sage Publications for being able to use their copyright material.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7
INTRODUCTION Aim of the Book Research Questions The Role of Institutions Council Voting Rules and Legislative Procedures The Use of Models Current Emp
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