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Bridging Qualified Majority and Unanimity Decision-Making in the EU
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Körperschaftlicher Herausgeber
Institut für Höhere Studien (IHS), Wien
Abstract The EU has tried to bridge decision making by qualified majority and unanimity over the years by expanding qualified majorities (consensus) or by making unanimities easier to achieve. I call this decision-making procedure q-“unanimity” and trace its history from the Luxembourg compromise to the Lisb... mehr
The EU has tried to bridge decision making by qualified majority and unanimity over the years by expanding qualified majorities (consensus) or by making unanimities easier to achieve. I call this decision-making procedure q-“unanimity” and trace its history from the Luxembourg compromise to the Lisbon Treaty, and to more recent agreements. I analyze the most recent and explicit mechanism of this bridging (article 31 (2) of the Lisbon Treaty) and identify one specific means by which the transformation of qualified majorities to unanimities is achieved: the reduction of precision or scope of the decision, so that different behaviors can be covered by it. I provide empirical evidence of such a mechanism by analyzing legislative decisions. Finally, I argue that this bridging is a ubiquitous feature of EU institutions, used in Treaties as well as in legislative decision-making.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
europäische Institution; Entscheidungsprozess; politische Entscheidung; Außenpolitik; Nationalstaat; Europapolitik; Lissabon-Vertrag; Entscheidungsfindung; EU; Mehrheitsprinzip
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Europapolitik
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2013
Erscheinungsort
Wien
Seitenangabe
42 S.
Schriftenreihe
Reihe Politikwissenschaft / Institut für Höhere Studien, Abt. Politikwissenschaft, 132
ISSN
1605-8003
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet
Lizenz
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