How do differences in the informal capabilities of Member States impact their bargaining success at the EU level? Based on new datasets collected via 145 semi-structured interviews with national negotiators and EU officials in Brussels, this research shows how MS informal capabilities impact legislative outcomes in the EU. This research provides evidence that informal capacities, such as the effectiveness of MS permanent representations and their capacity to coordinate with other actors in the legislative decision-making, matter for bargaining success. Using a mixed-method design, this dissertation explores the conditions and mechanisms granting more explanatory power to informal capabilities as determinants of EU Member States bargaining s...
What you see outside the Council of the EU with Member States publicly displaying seemingly irreconc...
The argument developed in this thesis is that negotiations in the Council of the European Union cann...
In international negotiations, it is often accepted that powerful states, by way of their large mili...
How do differences in the informal capabilities of Member States impact their bargaining success at ...
Negotiations in the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers are highly secretive, so outsiders have...
What determines a country’s bargaining success when negotiating EU legislation? Using data from legi...
Since the introduction of the co-decision procedure in the European Union (EU), the Council of the E...
More than 90% of EU legislation is negotiated in so-called trilogues. In this specific institutional...
More and more legislative decisions are reached in early stages of the codecision procedure through ...
Article first published online before print 8 November 2012This paper examines member state bargaini...
This study describes and explains states' bargaining success in legislative decision-making in the E...
The paper explains the involvement of the European Parliament (EP) in the negotiation of internation...
There is growing evidence that negotiations in the European Union Council are not only taking place ...
What resources grant heads of state and government influence in the European Council? Despite its po...
EU negotiations are characterized bythe coexistence of a bargaining and a problem-solving approach. ...
What you see outside the Council of the EU with Member States publicly displaying seemingly irreconc...
The argument developed in this thesis is that negotiations in the Council of the European Union cann...
In international negotiations, it is often accepted that powerful states, by way of their large mili...
How do differences in the informal capabilities of Member States impact their bargaining success at ...
Negotiations in the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers are highly secretive, so outsiders have...
What determines a country’s bargaining success when negotiating EU legislation? Using data from legi...
Since the introduction of the co-decision procedure in the European Union (EU), the Council of the E...
More than 90% of EU legislation is negotiated in so-called trilogues. In this specific institutional...
More and more legislative decisions are reached in early stages of the codecision procedure through ...
Article first published online before print 8 November 2012This paper examines member state bargaini...
This study describes and explains states' bargaining success in legislative decision-making in the E...
The paper explains the involvement of the European Parliament (EP) in the negotiation of internation...
There is growing evidence that negotiations in the European Union Council are not only taking place ...
What resources grant heads of state and government influence in the European Council? Despite its po...
EU negotiations are characterized bythe coexistence of a bargaining and a problem-solving approach. ...
What you see outside the Council of the EU with Member States publicly displaying seemingly irreconc...
The argument developed in this thesis is that negotiations in the Council of the European Union cann...
In international negotiations, it is often accepted that powerful states, by way of their large mili...