Who governs in the council? Determinants of ministerial participation in council meetings
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11640%2F21%3A00542065" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11640/21:00542065 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/48546054:_____/21:N0000060
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/0888325419900527" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1177/0888325419900527</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0888325419900527" target="_blank" >10.1177/0888325419900527</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Who governs in the council? Determinants of ministerial participation in council meetings
Original language description
The Council of the EU is the primary institution through which ministers of member states can express their positions on Commission proposals and vote upon legislation. This article first examines the extent to which ministers actually attend Council meetings before moving toward investigating the determinants of ministerial participation in over a period covering almost thirteen years between May 2004 and December 2016. It aims to identify determinants of why ministers from the Visegrad countries participate at some meetings and are absent from others. Using an original data set containing information about 940 Council meetings as well as several country-specific characteristics, we show that, on average, at about four out of every six meetings, ministers are absent. The results of our regressions indicate a pattern in which holding the office of the EU’s rotating presidency, the number of b-points on the agenda, and the size of the government increase the likelihood of ministerial participation in meetings. In contrast, high levels of popular support for Eurosceptic parties and holding of national legislative elections decrease the probability of ministerial attendance. Moreover, meetings of Council formations related to policy areas with a low level of EU competence are significantly less likely to be attended by ministers.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50602 - Public administration
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
East European Politics and Societies
ISSN
0888-3254
e-ISSN
1533-8371
Volume of the periodical
35
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
26
Pages from-to
156-181
UT code for WoS article
000512499900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85079419247