Informal integration and the supranational construction of the Council
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6289207 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeffrey Lewis (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 996-1019 |
| Publication date | 2003-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of European Public Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-1763 • E-ISSN: 1466-4429 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1350176032000148405 |
| OpenAlex | W2069216055 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
The standard treatment of the Council considers it the institutional heart of intergovernmentalism and member-state control in the European Union. This article does not challenge that view, except and in so far as it offers only a limited and potentially lopsided perspective of the Council's design and actual operation. A more balanced and accurate view of the Council needs to account for the robust levels of informal rules/institutions, norms, and conventions that are produced during interregnum integration and mark nearly every aspect of its internal development. The result, I argue, is a composite Council system that combines the seemingly contradictory elements of both an intergovernmental and supranational construct. Keywords: Committee of Permanent RepresentativesCouncil General SecretariatCouncil of the European UnionEuropean Councilinformal integration
Construct (python library · Council of Ministers · Economics · European integration · European union · Intergovernmentalism · International trade · Interregnum · Law and economics · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science · Computer Science · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Political Systems and Governance · Public Administration
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Italy in the Council of the European Union
Specialized Committees of International Organizations an Important Source of Organizational Autonomy
La présidence du Conseil
Avons-nous besoin d'une sociologie des relations internationales pour analyser l'intégration européenne
L'institutionnalisation de la présidence du Conseil européen
The Reform of the Council Presidency
Negotiations in the Council of the EU under a new institutional setting
Re-discovering International Executive Institutions
Explaining the negotiation of EU foreign policy
La fabrication des positions nationales dans l'Union européenne, la France, le Royaume Uni et la sécurité intérieure
Persistent informality
Watering down the ‘nuclear option’? The Council and the Article 7 dilemma
The Prevention of Deadlock through Informal Processes of ‘Supranationalization’
Opposition or consensus in the Justice and Home Affairs Council? The how and why of increasing member state contestation over EU policy
Informal Rules and Institutional Balances on the Boards of EU Agencies
The Bureaucratisation of Decision-Making in the European Union after Eastern Enlargement
The Division of Labour in Legislative Decision-Making of the Council of the European Union
Multilateral institutions, accession conditionality and rule transfer in the European Union
Who Decides in the Council of the European Union
From Summitry to EU Government
Openness and censorship in the European Union
The Silence of Ministers
Black boxes and open secrets
How institutional environments facilitate co-operative negotiation styles in EU decision-making
Overcoming Dissent
Open-Door or Closed-Door? Transparency in Domestic and International Bargaining
| Citations per year | 1.23 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2004 - 2025 (22) |
| Highly cited | No |