The Conflict over Qualified Majority Voting in the European Union Council of Ministers
An Analysis of the UK Negotiating Stance Using Power Indices
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7677224 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ron Johnston (0000-0003-3031-8573, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, corresponding author), R J Johnston (0000-0001-7523-2701) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 245-254 |
| Publication date | 1995-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1234 • E-ISSN: 1469-2112 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s000712340000716x |
| OpenAlex | W2168554214 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 4 |
Conflict within the British Conservative Party over the European Union provided a great deal of copy for media political coverage during 1992–94. It was undoubtedly responsible for severely damaging the prime minister's reputation within his party and the country. In July 1993, he could only achieve ratification of the Maastricht Treaty by making voting for it an issue of confidence in the House of Commons, thereby obtaining the support of most ‘Eurosceptic’ Conservative MPs. Nine months later, failure to achieve the United Kingdom's goal regarding voting procedures in the Council of Ministers following enlargement of the EU in 1995 led to several calls for his resignation from among his own party's MPs, including one in the House itself
Council of Ministers · Economics · European union · House of Commons · International trade · Negotiation · Parliament · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Ratification · Reputation · Treaty · Voting · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · European Union Policy and Governance · Game Theory and Voting Systems · Law · Public Administration
Proportional representation and a ‘fair electoral system’ for the United Kingdom
Power Relations in an Embedded Institution
Regionalizing Multilateralism
State power in a multilateral context
The Nice Treaty and Voting Rules in the Council
Power, Power Indices and Blocking Power
Can Power Be Reduced to a Quantitative Index – And If So, Which One? A Response to Garrett, McLean and Machover
Enlargement processes and distributional conflicts
The Inclusiveness of European Decision Rules
Mapping Out Political Europe
Strategic Power in the European Union
Power, Connected Coalitions, and Efficiency
The study of the European Union II
Blocking Minorities
Forecasting European Union politics
Explaining Institutional Change in the European Union
Institutionalist Research on the European Union
A priori power measures and the institutions of the european union
The representation of voter groups in the European Parliament
From the Luxembourg compromise to codecision
On Power Indices and Reading Papers
Qualified Majority Voting and Power Indices
Differenzierte Mitgliedschaft und die EU-Osterweiterung
Oligarchization, formalization, adaptation? Linking Sociological Theory and EU Enlargement Research
In the Shadow of Law or Power? Consensus-Based Bargaining and Outcomes in the Gatt/WTO
An institutional critique of intergovernmentalism
Strength in Numbers
Elite economic forecasts, economic news, mass economic expectations, and voting intentions in great britain
On Keeping Touch with Reality and Failing to be Befuddled by Mathematics
The weighted voting rule in the EU's Council of Ministers, 1958-1995
| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.97 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2010 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |