The Politics of Decision Making in the Council of the EU
This paper examines the decision making of the Council of the European Union to gain insight into how consensus decisions emerge and how they change power allocations and influence the behavior of negotiators and voting blocs. It surveys rationalist and non-rationalist accounts of consensus decisi...
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International Association for Political Science Students (IAPSS)
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This paper examines the decision making of the Council of the European Union to gain insight into how consensus decisions emerge and how they change power allocations and influence the behavior of negotiators and voting blocs. It surveys rationalist and non-rationalist accounts of consensus decisions in the Council and concludes that rationalist explanations are more convincing. In this connection, the central argument of the essay is that consensus emerges as rational negotiators (a) coalesce into blocs dominant enough to win over and suppress opposing coalitions and (b) undertake strategies to avoid blame for failing to win consensus around their own preferred policy.
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| spelling | doaj.art-073e64ccbf5d44e69c023ab8700223092023-10-13T18:23:18ZengInternational Association for Political Science Students (IAPSS)Politikon2414-66332015-03-012610.22151/politikon.26.8The Politics of Decision Making in the Council of the EUNavid Sabet0London School of Economics and Political Science This paper examines the decision making of the Council of the European Union to gain insight into how consensus decisions emerge and how they change power allocations and influence the behavior of negotiators and voting blocs. It surveys rationalist and non-rationalist accounts of consensus decisions in the Council and concludes that rationalist explanations are more convincing. In this connection, the central argument of the essay is that consensus emerges as rational negotiators (a) coalesce into blocs dominant enough to win over and suppress opposing coalitions and (b) undertake strategies to avoid blame for failing to win consensus around their own preferred policy. https://politikon.iapss.org/index.php/politikon/article/view/130blocking-coalitionsconsensusCouncil of the European Unionqualified majority voting (QMV)blame avoidance |
| spellingShingle | Navid Sabet The Politics of Decision Making in the Council of the EU Politikon blocking-coalitions consensus Council of the European Union qualified majority voting (QMV) blame avoidance |
| title | The Politics of Decision Making in the Council of the EU |
| title_full | The Politics of Decision Making in the Council of the EU |
| title_fullStr | The Politics of Decision Making in the Council of the EU |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Politics of Decision Making in the Council of the EU |
| title_short | The Politics of Decision Making in the Council of the EU |
| title_sort | politics of decision making in the council of the eu |
| topic | blocking-coalitions consensus Council of the European Union qualified majority voting (QMV) blame avoidance |
| url | https://politikon.iapss.org/index.php/politikon/article/view/130 |
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