The European Council and The Council of the European Union

Shapers of a European Confederation

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7995754
AutoresBulmer (0000-0002-0915-1695, autor correspondente), S J Bulmer
Ano1996
Volume26
Fascículo4
Páginas17-42
Data de publicação1996-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPublius The Journal of Federalism (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0048-5950 • E-ISSN: 1747-7107
EditoraOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a029879
OpenAlexW1993273742
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10

The European Council and the Council of the European Union play key roles in the European Union. The European Council is largely concerned with system-steering, while the Council of the EU undertakes sectoral policymaking. What is common to these roles is the balancing act carried out by both institutions. Both have to mediate the centripetal dynamics of integration, termed cooperative confederalism here, and the centrifugal dynamics which are found in the strongly entrenched territorial nature of power, centered on the member states. Using new institutionalist analysis, the article illuminates different facets of the two institutions1 functioning in mediating the two dynamics

Council of Ministers · Dynamics (music · Economics · European integration · European studies · European union · International trade · Member states · Political economy · Political science · Power (physics · Sociology · European Union Policy and Governance · Public Administration