Legislative Codecision in the European Union: Experience Over Twenty Years and Implications

ISBN-13: 9781138954670 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 150 str.

Anne Rasmussen;Charlotte Burns;Christine Reh

Opis

This volume brings together contributions from a range of methodological perspectives in order to take stock of twenty years of practising and studying codecision and to examine the procedure’s long-term implications for the EU’s institutions, politics and policies.

This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

Spis treści

1. Legislative Co-decision and its Impact on the Political System of the European Union  2. The Effect of Co-decision on Council decision-making: Informalization, politicization, and power  3. Holding the European Parliament Responsible: Policy Shift in the Data Retention Directive from Consultation to Co-decision  4. Consensus and compromise become ordinary – but at what cost? A critical analysis of the impact of the changing norms of co-decision upon European Parliament committees  5. The consequences of concluding co-decision early: trilogues and intra-institutional bargaining success  6. The distribution of power among EU institutions: who wins under co-decision and why?  7. Co-decision: a practitioners’ view from inside the Parliament  8. The Democratic Legitimacy of Co-decision  9. Twenty Years of Legislative Co-decision in the European Union: Experience and Implications 

O autorze

Anne Rasmussen is Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Charlotte Burns is Lecturer in Environmental Policy and Politics in the Department of Environment, University of York.

Christine Reh is Senior Lecturer in European Politics in the Department of Political Science, University College London.