Unveiling the Council of the European Union

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction: from Rags to Riches

   1. Introduction: from Rags to Riches

      • Daniel Naurin, Helen Wallace

      Pages 1-20

3. Coalition-Building

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Voting and Coalitions in the Council after the Enlargement

      • Mikko Mattila

      Pages 23-35

   3. Voting, Statements and Coalition-Building in the Council from 1999 to 2006

      • Sara Hagemann

      Pages 36-63

   4. East-North-South: Coalition-Building in the Council before and after Enlargement

      • Daniel Naurin, Rutger Lindahl

      Pages 64-78

4. Consensus

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. Veto Player Theory and Consensus Behaviour

      • Thomas König, Dirk Junge

      Pages 81-98

   3. The Mechanisms of Consensus: Coming to Agreement on Community Asylum Policy

      • Jonathan P. Aus

      Pages 99-118

5. Deliberation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119

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   2. Deliberation and Bargaining in the Article 113 Committee and the 1996/97 IGC Representatives Group

      • Arne Niemann

      Pages 121-143

   3. Risk Regulation, GMOs and the Limits of Deliberation

      • Mark A. Pollack, Gregory C. Shaffer

      Pages 144-164

   4. Strategic Bargaining, Norms and Deliberation

      • Jeffrey Lewis

      Pages 165-184

6. Leadership

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185

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   2. The Power of the Chair: Formal Leadership by the Council Presidency

      • Jonas Tallberg

      Pages 187-202

   3. Steering, but not Dominating: the Impact of the Council Presidency on EU Legislation

      • Andreas Warntjen

      Pages 203-218

   4. The Facilitator of Efficient Negotiations in the Council: the Impact of the Council Secretariat

      • Derek Beach

      Pages 219-237

   5. The Relative Power of Member States in the Council: Large and Small, Old and New

      • Robert Thomson

      Pages 238-258

7. Methodological Debate

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 259-259

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   2. How Should We Best Study the Council of Ministers?

      • Dorothee Heisenberg

      Pages 261-276

Thanks to new transparency rules and increased efforts by scholars, researchers are better equipped than ever before to analyze the decision-making processes of the Council of the European Union and to test old wisdoms. This book covers the most contentious areas and important debates in current research.

• decision-making
• EU legislation
• Europe
• European Union
• European Union (EU)
• government
• Policy
• european union politics

'Highly interesting from start to finish.' - European Library

'The volume's excellent choice of contributions and its comprehensive and encouraging insights raise the bar in Council studies several notches.' - Tim Veen, University of Nottingham, Political Studies Review

• Department of Political Science, Göteborg University, Sweden

  Daniel Naurin

• European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

  Helen Wallace

DANIEL NAURIN is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Gothenburg University, Sweden. He is the author or Deliberation behind Closed Doors: Transparency and Lobbying in the European Union.
 
HELEN WALLACE is Centennial Professor in the European Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. She is the author of numerous books and articles on European Union politics, including The Council of Ministers (with Fiona Hayes-Renshaw).

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