The European Union decides / edited by Robert Thomson [and others].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 348-366) and index.

Explaining legislative decision making in the European Union / Robert Thomson and Madeleine O. Hosli -- Research design : measuring actors' positions, saliences and capabilities / Robert Thomson and Frans N. Stokman -- Testing procedural models of EU legislative decision-making / Bernard Steunenberg and Torsten J. Selck -- Institutional realism and bargaining models / Christopher H. Achen -- Compromise, exchange and challenge in the European Union / Javier Arregui, Frans N. Stokman and Robert Thomson -- Nash versus Schelling? : the importance of constraints in legislative bargaining / Stefanie Bailer and Gerald Schneider -- A cooperative approach to decision-making in the European Union / Vincent Boekhoorn, Adrian M.A. Van Deemen and Madeleine O. Hosli -- A procedural exchange model of EU legislative politics / Thomas König and Sven Oliver Proksch -- Beyond informal compromise : testing conditional formal procedures of EU decision-making / Mika Widgrén and Antti Pajala -- Evaluating political decision-making models / Christopher H. Achen -- Evidence with insight : what models contribute to EU research / Gerald Schneider, Bernard Steunenberg and Mika Widgrén -- Appendix I : selection of commission proposals -- Appendix II : comparison of expert judgements with each other and with information from Council documentation / Robert Thomson -- References -- Index.

How are decisions taken in the European Union? How important are the formal decision-making procedures in defining decision outcomes and the bargaining that takes place among the actors involved? This volume addresses questions that are central to understanding how the EU works and how it makes important legislative decisions.

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