E L P R G
European Legislative Politics Research Group
Activities
Activities and Events
We have regular research workshops and also organize panels on EU legislative politics at international conferences to disseminate and discuss the results of our research. Furthermore, members of the group have published two special issues on legislative politics in the European Union.
Special issues
Linking Inter- and Intra-institutional Change in the European Union
West European Politics, Vol. 34 (2011), No. 1
Editors: Daniel Naurin and Anne Rasmussen
Reprinted as an edited volume by Routledge
The Role of Political Parties in the European Union
Journal of European Public Policy, Vol, 15 (2008), No. 8
Editors: Björn Lindberg, Anne Rasmussen and Andreas Warntjen
Reprinted as an edited volume by Routledge
Research Workshops
The Hague/Leiden, May 2011
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European University Institute, March 2007
Uppsala University, October 2006
1) Bjorn Hoyland, Policy-making inside the European Parliament
2) Arndt Wonka, Decision-making in the Commission
3) Andreas Warntjen, The Council of Ministers: 'The State of the Art on the Art of the State'
4) Andreas Warntjen, Preference Formation and Aggregation in EU legislative decision-making
Panels at general or specialist Conferences
American Political Science Association, Annual meeting, Boston, September 2008
Panel: Partisan Politics in the European Union
(Chair: Amie Kreppel, Discussant: Joseph Jupille)
1) Anne Rasmussen and Andreas Warntjen, Party Politics as Usual? The Role of Parties in EU Legislative Decision-Making
2) Jonas Tallberg and Karl Magnus Johansson, Party Politics in the European Council
3) Anne Rasmussen, Parties and Committees in the European Parliament
4) Daniel Naurin, Conflict Dimensions in the Council of Ministers
European Consortium for Political Research, Fourth Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, Riga, September 2008
Panel: Legislative decision-making within and across EU legislative bodies
(Chair: Andreas Warntjen, Discussant: Brigid Laffan, University College Dublin)
1) Jonas Tallberg, Party Politics in the European Council
2) Daniel Naurin, Network Capital in the Council of Ministers
3) Frank Häge, The Engine of European Integration? An Empirical Analysis of the Agenda-Setting Power of the European Commission
4) Anne Rasmussen, Executive Involvement in Bicameral Decision-making: The Role of the European Commission and the US Presidency
European Consortium for Political Research, Joint Sessions, Rennes, April 2008
Workshop 19: Intra- and Interinstitutional Relations in EU Decision-making
(Workshop directors: Daniel Naurin and Anne Rasmussen)
There has been a significant increase in the delegation of vital legislative competences from the member states to the supranational level since the start of the European Community. In the existing literature of EU legislative politics, a distinction can be made between inter-institutional studies, which look at the interaction between the EU institutions in different legislative procedures, and intra-institutional studies, which examine organizational dynamics within the EU institutions, for example their internal decision-making structures and organizational units.
It is noteworthy that these two literatures rarely draw conclusions about the inter-institutional implications of these intra-institutional processes, or vice versa. The aim of this workshop is to examine the links between these two types of process. We will look more closely at how the relationship between the EU institutions affects internal politics within the Commission, the Council, and the Parliament, and we will also examine how these internal processes feed back into the inter-institutional decision-making processes. Examples of important questions that could be addressed in the papers of the workshop include: Can we identify a pattern in the way the institutions have adapted their internal structures to changes in the decision-making procedures? Have changes in inter-institutional relations affected power relations within institutions? How do the internal decision-making structures within the institutions affect their possibility to advance their own interests in the inter-institutional decision-making processes? And how do reforms within institutions affect relations between institutions, and to what extent are such effects taken into account in reform processes?
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EUSA Conference, Montreal, May 2007
Panel: 'New Developments in EU Legislative Studies'
1) Bjoern Lindberg, Controlling legislative decision-making in the European Parliament: Examining report allocation and committee assignments
2) Sara Hagemann, Decision-Making in the EU's Council of Ministers: Voting behaviour across policy areas
3) Arndt Wonka, Executive Politics in the European Commission: Masters, Puppets, Strings?
4) Bjorn Hoyland and Indraneel Sircaaar, Coding Without Humans: Computerized Automatic Collection of Legislative Voting Data in the EU
5) Anne Rasmussen, Procedural Politics within the Co-decision Legislative Procedure of the European Union