Procedural Politics: Issues, Influence, and Institutional Choice in the European Union

ISBN-13: 9780521832533 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 296 str.

Joseph Jupille; Peter Lange; Robert H. Bates

Opis

After developing an argument to determine when actors will try and reshape political rules, rather than operate within them, Joseph Jupille applies it to European Union (EU) integration and politics. Jupille demonstrates that the European Union is far more deeply rule-governed than is traditionally understood and, accordingly, reveals a much more complete picture of the role of rules in political life than is available in most existing research.

Recenzje

'Joseph Jupille's Procedural Politics is a first-rate work of institutional analysis, combining the theoretical elegance and methodological sophistication of the very best rational-choice work on US Congressional institutions with a rigorous quantitative and qualitative study of the politics of the European Union. Jupille's hypotheses about the conditions under which, and the ways in which, EU actors engage in procedural disputes are clearly articulated and tested with rigor, and the implications of the book extend beyond the EU to any political system - and there are many - in which actors might be tempted to manipulate legislative procedure for their own purposes.' Mark Pollack, University of Wisconsin

Spis treści

List of figures; List of tables; Preface and acknowledgments; List of acronyms used in the text; 1. Introduction: choice, constraint, and European Union institutions; 2. Theorizing procedural politics: issues, interests, and institutional choice; 3. The EU as a procedural system: rules, preferences, and strategic interaction; 4. Patterns: determinants and effects of EU procedural politics; 5. Greening the market? Procedural politics and EU environmental policy; 6. Mad cows and Englishmen: procedural politics and EU agricultural policy; 7. Conclusion: procedural politics and rule governance in the EU and beyond; Bibliography; Index.