Amie Kreppel
Biographic Data
| ID | 4371535 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amie Kreppel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amie |
| FAMILY NAME | Kreppel |
| SIGNATURE | KREPPEL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8657-7326 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 662 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Governing without choosing: The limits of performative politics
In this introduction to the Contemporary Italian Politics special issue on Politics in Italy in 2025 we examine political developments by drawing on the distinction between performative and transformative politics. The individual contributions to this special issue reveal a common pattern: the growing predominance of political signalling over structural policy change across a broad variety of policy domains including foreign affairs, defence, lab…
Oversight, Accountability, or Influence? Understanding the Use of Monetary Dialogues in the European Parliament
The Monetary Dialogue (MD) between the European Central Bank (ECB) and the European Parliament (EP) has received ample research that has offered an insightful discussion on the effectiveness of the dialogue as a forum for ECB accountability. However, most of the literature has focused on what the ECB is held accountable for or how the ECB engages in the dialogues. Key questions remain, however, regarding the goals and actions of the individual me…
From the ‘yellow-red’ to the technocratic government in the pandemic era. The formation and activity of the Draghi government during its first nine months in charge
This article analyses the Draghi government in its first nine months in office, focusing on three main areas: (1) the formation and characteristics of the executive; (2) the positioning of the executive on the supranational political stage, in particular, its relationship with the European Union; (3) the legislative and policymaking activity of the Government. The main aim is to highlight the extent to which the technocratic nature of the executi…
Loyal agent or shirking partner: Understanding the policy goals of national ministers in the Council of the European Union
Research on representation within the European Union (EU) often assumes that partisan policy preferences are mediated primarily through the European Parliament, while the European Council and Council of the EU (Council) represent national interests. This assumption obfuscates the potential for divergent policy preferences within Council delegations, the majority of which are coalitions comprised of ideologically diverse parties. Such divergent pr…
Power or Luck? The Limitations of the European Commission's Agenda Setting Power and Autonomous Policy Influence
Building on the existing research on the European Commission's agenda‐setting powers, this study examines the relationship between the policy priorities of the Commission and those of the other key policy actors in the European Union to determine the impact of other EU institutional actor preferences on the success of Commission priority initiatives. By using new and existing datasets to compare the European Commission's Work Programmes with Euro…
The European Parliament's role as an informal EU agenda setter: The influence of own initiative reports
This article examines the conditions under which the European Parliament (EP) effectively exercises its informal agenda setting powers to directly influence the content of the European Union's policy agenda through the use of ‘own initiative reports’ or EPOIR. We test three models of EPOIR influence (salience, linkage and ideology) utilizing a newly created dataset of all substantive references to EPOIR within Commission pre‐legislative communica…
European Parliament resolutions—effective agenda setting or whistling into the wind
The European Parliament is one of the most studied legislatures in the world. The general consensus in most of these analyses is that the power of the EP in the legislative processes of the EU has increased precipitously, since the introduction of the co-decision procedure. One continuing perceived weakness of the EP, however, is its inability to introduce new legislation. While the EP can request that the Commission initiate a proposal, it lacks…
Bicameralism and the balance of power in EU legislative politics
While there are many studies that focus on the changing power of the European Parliament (EP), the shifting relationships between European Union (EU) institutions has received far less attention. Few consider the impact of the transformation of the EP on the other core EU institutions, particularly the Commission and Council. Together these three institutions determine the policy outcomes of the EU, but how they work together and the changing bal…
Leading the Band or Just Playing the Tune? Reassessing the Agenda-Setting Powers of the European Commission
Setting the political agenda is a critical and usually powerful aspect of policy making. However, the ability to set the agenda, without any significant decision-making powers, can undermine this influence, leaving a technical agenda setter without substantive political influence. This research examines the difference between technical and political agenda setting through an analysis of the policy impact of the Commission of the European Union (E…
Decision Making in the EU Before and after the Lisbon Treaty
Introduction: Decision-Making in the European Union before and after the Lisbon Treaty
Legislative Implications of the Lisbon Treaty: The (Potential) Role of Ideology
The Treaty of Lisbon explicitly classifies the Council of the European Union as part of the legislative branch; yet, few analyses treat it as such. Instead, most treat the Council as an intergovernmental organisation governed by homogenous member state interests. This research squarely repositions the Council within the legislative studies literature and examines the character of its organisational structure. At the same time, the representatives…
The normalization of the European Union
This article reviews the development of European Union (EU) Studies from a comparative perspective to explain why and how scholarship on the EU has changed over time. In particular, this work strives to explain the shift away from a US-centered field of research focused on a few core theoretical concepts to an academic field toward an increasing level of scholarship by European academics on across an extremely broad variety of topics. The core ex…
Looking ‘Up’, ‘Down’ and ‘Sideways: Understanding EU Institutions in Context
Research on the EU has expanded considerably in recent years. Studies have moved from examining the power of the various EU institutions across time to focusing on the internal activities and organisation of these institutions. The current piece makes a critical assessment of the existing literature on the EU institutions and considers which future steps need to be taken to move the literature forward. It argues that the articles in this volume m…
Moving in the other direction? The impact of domestic party system change on Italian MEPs
This paper re-examines some of the assumptions of the Europeanization literature by suggesting that it might be possible for domestic political events to have a direct influence on supranational political organizations. This possibility is addressed through an analysis of the impact that the dramatic political reform of the Italian party system in the 1990s had on the primary home of political party action in the EU, the European Parliament. The …
Necessary but not sufficient: Understanding the impact of treaty reform on the internal development of the European Parliament
This paper examines the impact of exogenous treaty reform on the internal organization of the European Parliament (EP). After each major reform of the European Union's (EU's) treaties the EP took the opportunity to fully revise its own internal Rules of Procedure (RoP). This work reviews the key revisions of the Single European Act, Maastricht, Amsterdam and Nice Treaties relative to the EP to gain an understanding of what types of internal EP re…
The Party System in the European Parliament: Collusive or Competitive
This article looks at the development of the two main features of the party system in the European Parliament (EP): the organization of the party groups, and the nature of competition between these groups. On the organizational side, we examine the foundation of the party groups in the Common Assembly and the evolution of party organization from the appointed to the elected Parliament. On the competition side, we focus on the main axis of competi…
From "Grand Coalition" To Left-Right Confrontation: Explaining the Shifting Structure of Party Competition in the European Parliament
In this article, the authors address the rationalist-constructivist debate head on. They start by discussing a significant empirical phenomenon in contemporary EU politics: the changing pattern of political competition in the European Parliament (EP), from a "grand coalition" of the two main parties in the 1994-1999 EP, to a new structure of left-right competition in the 1999-2004 EP. The authors then illustrate how rational choice and constructi…
Moving Beyond Procedure: An Empirical Analysis of European Parliament Legislative Influence
This article examines the influence of the European Parliament (EP) within the legislative process of the European Union. Although debate over the impact of the cooperation and co-decision I procedures continues, this article argues that, in part, the current theoretical debate is a false one that has caused many of the other important variables that affect EP legislative influence to be ignored. This article briefly revisits the current debate, …
Legislative Procedures in the European Union: An Empirical Analysis
The article analyses the role of the Commission, the Parliament, and the Council in the two main legislative procedures in the European Union: co-operation and co-decision (I). We use the legislative history of some 5,000 parliamentary amendments. These procedures have been the subject of a great deal of theoretical debate. According to conventional wisdom the co-decision procedure increases the powers of the European Parliament. Revisionist appr…
Toward a New Typology of Vetoes and Overrides
This research develops a typology of vetoes and overrides based on the nature of the coalition that originally passed the legislation. We posit that both legislative and non-legislative objectives inform the strategies of the President and congressional leaders. The implications for measures of presidential and congressional power are considerable. Using veto and override data for the period 1969-98, we show that vote-switching between the passag…
Rules, Ideology and Coalition Formation in the European Parliament: Past, Present and Future
This research investigates the frequent creation of voting coalitions between the Socialist (PSE) and largely Christian Democratic (PPE) party groups within the European Parliament. The tendency of the PPE and PSE to form a `grand coalition' is frequently understood to imply that there is no significant role for ideology in the EP. Two common explanations of the creation of the `grand coalition' are tested demonstrating their inability to adequat…
What Affects the European Parliament’s Legislative Influence? An Analysis of the Success of EP Amendments
Coalition Formation in the European Parliament
This article analyzes coalition formation within the European Parliament (EP) under the cooperation procedure through the analysis of a random sample of 100 roll call votes. The authors find that generally, coalitions form on the basis of ideology, not nationality, although they are able to identify some national groups that occasionally vote against the majority of their party group. More interestingly, they find that the political initiative wi…
The history of conditional agenda–setting in european institutions
The purpose of this article is twofold. Our first goal is to make explicit an institutionalist theory of European integration. This theory is based on the concept of ‘conditional agenda setting’, which we argue has played an important role in European integration. According to this theory, the fact that Commission proposals are more easily accepted than modified by the Council has accelerated the pace of integration. This finding brings us to the…
Coalition Formation in the European Parliament
This article analyzes coalition formation within the European Parliament (EP) under the cooperation procedure through the analysis of a random sample of 100 roll call votes. The authors find that generally, coalitions form on the basis of ideology, not nationality, although they are able to identify some national groups that occasionally vote against the majority of their party group. More interestingly, they find that the political initiative wi…
Legislative Procedures in the European Union: An Empirical Analysis
The article analyses the role of the Commission, the Parliament, and the Council in the two main legislative procedures in the European Union: co-operation and co-decision (I). We use the legislative history of some 5,000 parliamentary amendments. These procedures have been the subject of a great deal of theoretical debate. According to conventional wisdom the co-decision procedure increases the powers of the European Parliament. Revisionist appr…
Leading the Band or Just Playing the Tune? Reassessing the Agenda-Setting Powers of the European Commission
Setting the political agenda is a critical and usually powerful aspect of policy making. However, the ability to set the agenda, without any significant decision-making powers, can undermine this influence, leaving a technical agenda setter without substantive political influence. This research examines the difference between technical and political agenda setting through an analysis of the policy impact of the Commission of the European Union (E…
The Party System in the European Parliament: Collusive or Competitive
This article looks at the development of the two main features of the party system in the European Parliament (EP): the organization of the party groups, and the nature of competition between these groups. On the organizational side, we examine the foundation of the party groups in the Common Assembly and the evolution of party organization from the appointed to the elected Parliament. On the competition side, we focus on the main axis of competi…
What Affects the European Parliament’s Legislative Influence? An Analysis of the Success of EP Amendments
Rules, Ideology and Coalition Formation in the European Parliament: Past, Present and Future
This research investigates the frequent creation of voting coalitions between the Socialist (PSE) and largely Christian Democratic (PPE) party groups within the European Parliament. The tendency of the PPE and PSE to form a `grand coalition' is frequently understood to imply that there is no significant role for ideology in the EP. Two common explanations of the creation of the `grand coalition' are tested demonstrating their inability to adequat…
From "Grand Coalition" To Left-Right Confrontation: Explaining the Shifting Structure of Party Competition in the European Parliament
In this article, the authors address the rationalist-constructivist debate head on. They start by discussing a significant empirical phenomenon in contemporary EU politics: the changing pattern of political competition in the European Parliament (EP), from a "grand coalition" of the two main parties in the 1994-1999 EP, to a new structure of left-right competition in the 1999-2004 EP. The authors then illustrate how rational choice and constructi…
Moving Beyond Procedure: An Empirical Analysis of European Parliament Legislative Influence
This article examines the influence of the European Parliament (EP) within the legislative process of the European Union. Although debate over the impact of the cooperation and co-decision I procedures continues, this article argues that, in part, the current theoretical debate is a false one that has caused many of the other important variables that affect EP legislative influence to be ignored. This article briefly revisits the current debate, …
The impact of parties in government on legislative output in Italy
Frequent government crisis and high legislative output have distinguished Italy for over forty years. Previous explanations of the Italian legislative process have focused on the institutions established since the Second World War. In particular, the ability of the parliamentary committees to pass legislation, and the ‘polarized’ nature of the Italian party system have received a great deal of attention. This type of structural analysis has prove…
The history of conditional agenda–setting in european institutions
The purpose of this article is twofold. Our first goal is to make explicit an institutionalist theory of European integration. This theory is based on the concept of ‘conditional agenda setting’, which we argue has played an important role in European integration. According to this theory, the fact that Commission proposals are more easily accepted than modified by the Council has accelerated the pace of integration. This finding brings us to the…
The normalization of the European Union
This article reviews the development of European Union (EU) Studies from a comparative perspective to explain why and how scholarship on the EU has changed over time. In particular, this work strives to explain the shift away from a US-centered field of research focused on a few core theoretical concepts to an academic field toward an increasing level of scholarship by European academics on across an extremely broad variety of topics. The core ex…
Bicameralism and the balance of power in EU legislative politics
While there are many studies that focus on the changing power of the European Parliament (EP), the shifting relationships between European Union (EU) institutions has received far less attention. Few consider the impact of the transformation of the EP on the other core EU institutions, particularly the Commission and Council. Together these three institutions determine the policy outcomes of the EU, but how they work together and the changing bal…
Looking ‘Up’, ‘Down’ and ‘Sideways: Understanding EU Institutions in Context
Research on the EU has expanded considerably in recent years. Studies have moved from examining the power of the various EU institutions across time to focusing on the internal activities and organisation of these institutions. The current piece makes a critical assessment of the existing literature on the EU institutions and considers which future steps need to be taken to move the literature forward. It argues that the articles in this volume m…
Toward a New Typology of Vetoes and Overrides
This research develops a typology of vetoes and overrides based on the nature of the coalition that originally passed the legislation. We posit that both legislative and non-legislative objectives inform the strategies of the President and congressional leaders. The implications for measures of presidential and congressional power are considerable. Using veto and override data for the period 1969-98, we show that vote-switching between the passag…
The European Parliament's role as an informal EU agenda setter: The influence of own initiative reports
This article examines the conditions under which the European Parliament (EP) effectively exercises its informal agenda setting powers to directly influence the content of the European Union's policy agenda through the use of ‘own initiative reports’ or EPOIR. We test three models of EPOIR influence (salience, linkage and ideology) utilizing a newly created dataset of all substantive references to EPOIR within Commission pre‐legislative communica…
European Parliament resolutions—effective agenda setting or whistling into the wind
The European Parliament is one of the most studied legislatures in the world. The general consensus in most of these analyses is that the power of the EP in the legislative processes of the EU has increased precipitously, since the introduction of the co-decision procedure. One continuing perceived weakness of the EP, however, is its inability to introduce new legislation. While the EP can request that the Commission initiate a proposal, it lacks…
Necessary but not sufficient: Understanding the impact of treaty reform on the internal development of the European Parliament
This paper examines the impact of exogenous treaty reform on the internal organization of the European Parliament (EP). After each major reform of the European Union's (EU's) treaties the EP took the opportunity to fully revise its own internal Rules of Procedure (RoP). This work reviews the key revisions of the Single European Act, Maastricht, Amsterdam and Nice Treaties relative to the EP to gain an understanding of what types of internal EP re…
From the ‘yellow-red’ to the technocratic government in the pandemic era. The formation and activity of the Draghi government during its first nine months in charge
This article analyses the Draghi government in its first nine months in office, focusing on three main areas: (1) the formation and characteristics of the executive; (2) the positioning of the executive on the supranational political stage, in particular, its relationship with the European Union; (3) the legislative and policymaking activity of the Government. The main aim is to highlight the extent to which the technocratic nature of the executi…
Loyal agent or shirking partner: Understanding the policy goals of national ministers in the Council of the European Union
Research on representation within the European Union (EU) often assumes that partisan policy preferences are mediated primarily through the European Parliament, while the European Council and Council of the EU (Council) represent national interests. This assumption obfuscates the potential for divergent policy preferences within Council delegations, the majority of which are coalitions comprised of ideologically diverse parties. Such divergent pr…
Legislative Implications of the Lisbon Treaty: The (Potential) Role of Ideology
The Treaty of Lisbon explicitly classifies the Council of the European Union as part of the legislative branch; yet, few analyses treat it as such. Instead, most treat the Council as an intergovernmental organisation governed by homogenous member state interests. This research squarely repositions the Council within the legislative studies literature and examines the character of its organisational structure. At the same time, the representatives…
Power or Luck? The Limitations of the European Commission's Agenda Setting Power and Autonomous Policy Influence
Building on the existing research on the European Commission's agenda‐setting powers, this study examines the relationship between the policy priorities of the Commission and those of the other key policy actors in the European Union to determine the impact of other EU institutional actor preferences on the success of Commission priority initiatives. By using new and existing datasets to compare the European Commission's Work Programmes with Euro…
Introduction: Decision-Making in the European Union before and after the Lisbon Treaty
Moving in the other direction? The impact of domestic party system change on Italian MEPs
This paper re-examines some of the assumptions of the Europeanization literature by suggesting that it might be possible for domestic political events to have a direct influence on supranational political organizations. This possibility is addressed through an analysis of the impact that the dramatic political reform of the Italian party system in the 1990s had on the primary home of political party action in the EU, the European Parliament. The …
The impact of parties in government on legislative output in Italy
The impact of parties in government on legislative output in Italy
Frequent government crisis and high legislative output have distinguished Italy for over forty years. Previous explanations of the Italian legislative process have focused on the institutions established since the Second World War. In particular, the ability of the parliamentary committees to pass legislation, and the ‘polarized’ nature of the Italian party system have received a great deal of attention. This type of structural analysis has prove…
The history of conditional agenda–setting in european institutions
The purpose of this article is twofold. Our first goal is to make explicit an institutionalist theory of European integration. This theory is based on the concept of ‘conditional agenda setting’, which we argue has played an important role in European integration. According to this theory, the fact that Commission proposals are more easily accepted than modified by the Council has accelerated the pace of integration. This finding brings us to the…
What Affects the European Parliament’s Legislative Influence? An Analysis of the Success of EP Amendments
Coalition Formation in the European Parliament
This article analyzes coalition formation within the European Parliament (EP) under the cooperation procedure through the analysis of a random sample of 100 roll call votes. The authors find that generally, coalitions form on the basis of ideology, not nationality, although they are able to identify some national groups that occasionally vote against the majority of their party group. More interestingly, they find that the political initiative wi…
Rules, Ideology and Coalition Formation in the European Parliament: Past, Present and Future
This research investigates the frequent creation of voting coalitions between the Socialist (PSE) and largely Christian Democratic (PPE) party groups within the European Parliament. The tendency of the PPE and PSE to form a `grand coalition' is frequently understood to imply that there is no significant role for ideology in the EP. Two common explanations of the creation of the `grand coalition' are tested demonstrating their inability to adequat…
Legislative Procedures in the European Union: An Empirical Analysis
The article analyses the role of the Commission, the Parliament, and the Council in the two main legislative procedures in the European Union: co-operation and co-decision (I). We use the legislative history of some 5,000 parliamentary amendments. These procedures have been the subject of a great deal of theoretical debate. According to conventional wisdom the co-decision procedure increases the powers of the European Parliament. Revisionist appr…
Toward a New Typology of Vetoes and Overrides
This research develops a typology of vetoes and overrides based on the nature of the coalition that originally passed the legislation. We posit that both legislative and non-legislative objectives inform the strategies of the President and congressional leaders. The implications for measures of presidential and congressional power are considerable. Using veto and override data for the period 1969-98, we show that vote-switching between the passag…
Moving Beyond Procedure: An Empirical Analysis of European Parliament Legislative Influence
This article examines the influence of the European Parliament (EP) within the legislative process of the European Union. Although debate over the impact of the cooperation and co-decision I procedures continues, this article argues that, in part, the current theoretical debate is a false one that has caused many of the other important variables that affect EP legislative influence to be ignored. This article briefly revisits the current debate, …
Necessary but not sufficient: Understanding the impact of treaty reform on the internal development of the European Parliament
This paper examines the impact of exogenous treaty reform on the internal organization of the European Parliament (EP). After each major reform of the European Union's (EU's) treaties the EP took the opportunity to fully revise its own internal Rules of Procedure (RoP). This work reviews the key revisions of the Single European Act, Maastricht, Amsterdam and Nice Treaties relative to the EP to gain an understanding of what types of internal EP re…
The Party System in the European Parliament: Collusive or Competitive
This article looks at the development of the two main features of the party system in the European Parliament (EP): the organization of the party groups, and the nature of competition between these groups. On the organizational side, we examine the foundation of the party groups in the Common Assembly and the evolution of party organization from the appointed to the elected Parliament. On the competition side, we focus on the main axis of competi…
From "Grand Coalition" To Left-Right Confrontation: Explaining the Shifting Structure of Party Competition in the European Parliament
In this article, the authors address the rationalist-constructivist debate head on. They start by discussing a significant empirical phenomenon in contemporary EU politics: the changing pattern of political competition in the European Parliament (EP), from a "grand coalition" of the two main parties in the 1994-1999 EP, to a new structure of left-right competition in the 1999-2004 EP. The authors then illustrate how rational choice and constructi…
Moving in the other direction? The impact of domestic party system change on Italian MEPs
This paper re-examines some of the assumptions of the Europeanization literature by suggesting that it might be possible for domestic political events to have a direct influence on supranational political organizations. This possibility is addressed through an analysis of the impact that the dramatic political reform of the Italian party system in the 1990s had on the primary home of political party action in the EU, the European Parliament. The …
Looking ‘Up’, ‘Down’ and ‘Sideways: Understanding EU Institutions in Context
Research on the EU has expanded considerably in recent years. Studies have moved from examining the power of the various EU institutions across time to focusing on the internal activities and organisation of these institutions. The current piece makes a critical assessment of the existing literature on the EU institutions and considers which future steps need to be taken to move the literature forward. It argues that the articles in this volume m…
The normalization of the European Union
This article reviews the development of European Union (EU) Studies from a comparative perspective to explain why and how scholarship on the EU has changed over time. In particular, this work strives to explain the shift away from a US-centered field of research focused on a few core theoretical concepts to an academic field toward an increasing level of scholarship by European academics on across an extremely broad variety of topics. The core ex…
Introduction: Decision-Making in the European Union before and after the Lisbon Treaty
Legislative Implications of the Lisbon Treaty: The (Potential) Role of Ideology
The Treaty of Lisbon explicitly classifies the Council of the European Union as part of the legislative branch; yet, few analyses treat it as such. Instead, most treat the Council as an intergovernmental organisation governed by homogenous member state interests. This research squarely repositions the Council within the legislative studies literature and examines the character of its organisational structure. At the same time, the representatives…
Decision Making in the EU Before and after the Lisbon Treaty
Leading the Band or Just Playing the Tune? Reassessing the Agenda-Setting Powers of the European Commission
Setting the political agenda is a critical and usually powerful aspect of policy making. However, the ability to set the agenda, without any significant decision-making powers, can undermine this influence, leaving a technical agenda setter without substantive political influence. This research examines the difference between technical and political agenda setting through an analysis of the policy impact of the Commission of the European Union (E…
Bicameralism and the balance of power in EU legislative politics
While there are many studies that focus on the changing power of the European Parliament (EP), the shifting relationships between European Union (EU) institutions has received far less attention. Few consider the impact of the transformation of the EP on the other core EU institutions, particularly the Commission and Council. Together these three institutions determine the policy outcomes of the EU, but how they work together and the changing bal…
European Parliament resolutions—effective agenda setting or whistling into the wind
The European Parliament is one of the most studied legislatures in the world. The general consensus in most of these analyses is that the power of the EP in the legislative processes of the EU has increased precipitously, since the introduction of the co-decision procedure. One continuing perceived weakness of the EP, however, is its inability to introduce new legislation. While the EP can request that the Commission initiate a proposal, it lacks…
The European Parliament's role as an informal EU agenda setter: The influence of own initiative reports
This article examines the conditions under which the European Parliament (EP) effectively exercises its informal agenda setting powers to directly influence the content of the European Union's policy agenda through the use of ‘own initiative reports’ or EPOIR. We test three models of EPOIR influence (salience, linkage and ideology) utilizing a newly created dataset of all substantive references to EPOIR within Commission pre‐legislative communica…
From the ‘yellow-red’ to the technocratic government in the pandemic era. The formation and activity of the Draghi government during its first nine months in charge
This article analyses the Draghi government in its first nine months in office, focusing on three main areas: (1) the formation and characteristics of the executive; (2) the positioning of the executive on the supranational political stage, in particular, its relationship with the European Union; (3) the legislative and policymaking activity of the Government. The main aim is to highlight the extent to which the technocratic nature of the executi…
Loyal agent or shirking partner: Understanding the policy goals of national ministers in the Council of the European Union
Research on representation within the European Union (EU) often assumes that partisan policy preferences are mediated primarily through the European Parliament, while the European Council and Council of the EU (Council) represent national interests. This assumption obfuscates the potential for divergent policy preferences within Council delegations, the majority of which are coalitions comprised of ideologically diverse parties. Such divergent pr…
Power or Luck? The Limitations of the European Commission's Agenda Setting Power and Autonomous Policy Influence
Building on the existing research on the European Commission's agenda‐setting powers, this study examines the relationship between the policy priorities of the Commission and those of the other key policy actors in the European Union to determine the impact of other EU institutional actor preferences on the success of Commission priority initiatives. By using new and existing datasets to compare the European Commission's Work Programmes with Euro…
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