The Power of the European Parliament as a Conditional Agenda Setter
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7583804 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George Tsebelis (0000-0003-0889-8153, University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 128-142 |
| Publication date | 1994-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2944886 |
| OpenAlex | W2101586208 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 294 |
| References cited | 39 |
The European Parliament under the current cooperation procedure has an important power: it can make proposals that, if accepted by the Commission of the European Communities, are easier for the Council of Ministers to accept than to modify, since only qualified majority is required for acceptance, whereas full unanimity for modification. The importance of this power, which I call the power of the conditional agenda setter , has not been recognized in previous scholarly work. For structural reasons explained in the text, this power is likely to increase in the future. I conclude by arguing that the conditional delegation of power to international actors (the European Parliament, Commission, and the Court of Justice) is a frequent phenomenon in European institutions. This delegation presents three important advantages: it makes possible the selection of one among many possible equilibria, it accelerates European integration, and it diffuses responsibility for politically unpopular measures
Commission · Council of Ministers · Delegation · Economic Justice · Economics · European commission · European integration · European union · International trade · Law and economics · Legislature · Parliament · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Setter · Unanimity · European Union Policy and Governance · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Political Systems and Governance · Public Administration
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