The Politics of Decision Making in the Council of the EU

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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Main Author:	Navid Sabet
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	International Association for Political Science Students (IAPSS) 2015-03-01
Series:	Politikon
Subjects:	blocking-coalitions consensus Council of the European Union qualified majority voting (QMV) blame avoidance
Online Access:	https://politikon.iapss.org/index.php/politikon/article/view/130

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