Assessing the fairness of the EU Council qualified majority voting. A voting power critical perspective of the liberal intergovernmentalist accounts
The Qualified Majority Voting (QMV) used by the Council of the European Union developed to a high degree of complexity from one modifying treaty to another, until the latest definition stipulated in the Treaty of Lisbon. This paper analyses this EU intra-institutional voting method using a rational...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
University of A Coruna
2023-06-01
|
| Series: | European Journal of Government and Economics |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://revistas.udc.es/index.php/ejge/article/view/9335 |
| _version_ | 1797804209758797824 |
|---|---|
| author | Oana Andreea Ion |
| author_facet | Oana Andreea Ion |
| author_sort | Oana Andreea Ion |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description |
The Qualified Majority Voting (QMV) used by the Council of the European Union developed to a high degree of complexity from one modifying treaty to another, until the latest definition stipulated in the Treaty of Lisbon. This paper analyses this EU intra-institutional voting method using a rational choice approach and emphasizes that there are situations when not even the institutions, as rational actors, can avoid a collective irrational outcome even when they are addressing subjects such as voting power distribution. It also addresses several shortcomings of the Liberal Intergovernmentalist explanatory framework focusing on the insufficiently developed level of credible institutional commitments. The core part of the article consists in investigating several types of EU Council internal decision-making options, proposing how they can be designed to be considered in the same time fair and efficient, and in analysing how close this voting power ideal type configuration is to the current decisional system.
|
| first_indexed | 2024-03-13T05:33:41Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-9972fc2fbb384af28dac119070eb2d8f |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 2254-7088 |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-03-13T05:33:41Z |
| publishDate | 2023-06-01 |
| publisher | University of A Coruna |
| record_format | Article |
| series | European Journal of Government and Economics |
| spelling | doaj.art-9972fc2fbb384af28dac119070eb2d8f2023-06-14T13:07:14ZengUniversity of A CorunaEuropean Journal of Government and Economics2254-70882023-06-0112110.17979/ejge.2023.12.1.9335Assessing the fairness of the EU Council qualified majority voting. A voting power critical perspective of the liberal intergovernmentalist accountsOana Andreea Ion0National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA) The Qualified Majority Voting (QMV) used by the Council of the European Union developed to a high degree of complexity from one modifying treaty to another, until the latest definition stipulated in the Treaty of Lisbon. This paper analyses this EU intra-institutional voting method using a rational choice approach and emphasizes that there are situations when not even the institutions, as rational actors, can avoid a collective irrational outcome even when they are addressing subjects such as voting power distribution. It also addresses several shortcomings of the Liberal Intergovernmentalist explanatory framework focusing on the insufficiently developed level of credible institutional commitments. The core part of the article consists in investigating several types of EU Council internal decision-making options, proposing how they can be designed to be considered in the same time fair and efficient, and in analysing how close this voting power ideal type configuration is to the current decisional system. https://revistas.udc.es/index.php/ejge/article/view/9335EU Councilinput and output legitimacyqualified majority votingrational choicevoting power |
| spellingShingle | Oana Andreea Ion Assessing the fairness of the EU Council qualified majority voting. A voting power critical perspective of the liberal intergovernmentalist accounts European Journal of Government and Economics EU Council input and output legitimacy qualified majority voting rational choice voting power |
| title | Assessing the fairness of the EU Council qualified majority voting. A voting power critical perspective of the liberal intergovernmentalist accounts |
| title_full | Assessing the fairness of the EU Council qualified majority voting. A voting power critical perspective of the liberal intergovernmentalist accounts |
| title_fullStr | Assessing the fairness of the EU Council qualified majority voting. A voting power critical perspective of the liberal intergovernmentalist accounts |
| title_full_unstemmed | Assessing the fairness of the EU Council qualified majority voting. A voting power critical perspective of the liberal intergovernmentalist accounts |
| title_short | Assessing the fairness of the EU Council qualified majority voting. A voting power critical perspective of the liberal intergovernmentalist accounts |
| title_sort | assessing the fairness of the eu council qualified majority voting a voting power critical perspective of the liberal intergovernmentalist accounts |
| topic | EU Council input and output legitimacy qualified majority voting rational choice voting power |
| url | https://revistas.udc.es/index.php/ejge/article/view/9335 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT oanaandreeaion assessingthefairnessoftheeucouncilqualifiedmajorityvotingavotingpowercriticalperspectiveoftheliberalintergovernmentalistaccounts |