Avoiding Paralysis: The Eastern Enlargement and the Council of the European Union

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F15%3A10297827" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/15:10297827 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2015.1034276" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2015.1034276</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2015.1034276" target="_blank" >10.1080/07036337.2015.1034276</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Avoiding Paralysis: The Eastern Enlargement and the Council of the European Union

Original language description

Why does the Council of the European Union continue to function without apparent problems, despite the increase in the number and heterogeneity of its members brought about by the Eastern enlargement? We argue that the reason why the Council has not become paralysed lies in the increased delegation of its agenda load from the ministerial meetings downwards to the Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper). We assess our argument on the basis of quantitative analysis of the amount of the so-calledA-points (decided by Coreper) and B-points (decided by ministers) on the Council agenda in the years 2000 through 2007. Studying the delegation mechanism deeper, we argue that two design features of Coreper its permanent nature and its broad scope of agenda coverage enabled the delegation from ministerial meetings to take place and thus helped the Council cope with the larger and more heterogeneous membership.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AD - Political sciences

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GA407%2F09%2F1747" target="_blank" >GA407/09/1747: Eastern Enlargement and Patterns of Decision-making in the European Union</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of European Integration

ISSN

0703-6337

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

37

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

649-665

UT code for WoS article

000357832000003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84936985520