Bargaining Power in the European Council
What grants influence in the European Council? Drawing on general theories of negotiation, this article isolates and illustrates three complementary sources of bargaining power in the European Council: state sources of power, institutional sources of power and individual sources of power. It reports...
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Published in | Journal of common market studies Vol. 46; no. 3; pp. 685 - 708 |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Oxford, UK
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
01.06.2008
Wiley Blackwell |
Series | Journal of Common Market Studies |
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Online Access | Get full text |
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Summary: | What grants influence in the European Council? Drawing on general theories of negotiation, this article isolates and illustrates three complementary sources of bargaining power in the European Council: state sources of power, institutional sources of power and individual sources of power. It reports the results of a unique series of elite interviews with European heads of state and government, foreign ministers and top‐level civil servants. Elite testimonies suggest that the state dimension of power is the most fundamental, whereas the institutional and individual dimensions of power play a secondary role and mainly mediate the impact of structural power asymmetries. |
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Bibliography: | istex:CD259159ADA41D93179689262084B45BDD83A972 ark:/67375/WNG-7D6R967V-3 ArticleID:JCMS798 Earlier versions of this article were presented at the Tenth EUSA Biennial International Conference, Montreal, 17 to 19 May 2007, the Fourth ECPR General Conference, Pisa, 6 to 8 September 2007 and the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. The article draws on a more extensive report, presented to policy audiences at seminars arranged by the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies, the Swedish Representation to the European Union and the European Institute in Washington DC. The research on which the article is based was funded by the Swedish Research Council. For insightful comments and suggestions, I wish to thank, in particular, Simon Bulmer, Magnus Jerneck, Pierpaolo Settembri, Maria Strömvik, Göran von Sydow and Helen Wallace, as well as the editors and anonymous reviewers of JCMS. ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 ObjectType-Article-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 |
ISSN: | 0021-9886 1468-5965 |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1468-5965.2008.00798.x |