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.
European Consortium for
Political Research, General Conference, Potsdam September
2009
1) Andreas Warntjen. Legislative
Leadership in the Council: The German Presidency and Occupational Health
and Safety Policy
2) Arndt Wonka. The EU interest group population: A new data set and first
empirical results
European Union Studies Association, Biennial Conference,
Los Angeles, April 2009
1) Frank Haege. Intrainstitutional Effects of
Interinstitutional Competence Shifts in the EU
2)
Daniel Naurin and Anne Rasmussen. Intrainstitutional Effects of
Interinstitutional Competence Shifts in the EU
3)
Andreas Warntjen. Legislative Leadership in the
Council: The German Presidency and Occupational Health and Safety
Policy
4) Andreas Warntjen. Problem Solving, Bargaining or Exchange
in the Council of Ministers?
5) Arndt Wonka and Berthold Rittberger.
How Independent? Exploring the Implications of Agency Independence for
Democratically Legitimate Governance in the
EU
European
Consortium for Political Research, General Conference, Riga, September
2008
Panel on Legislative decision-making within and
across EU legislative bodies
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
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?
European Consortium for Political Research, General Conference, Pisa, September 2007
1) Giacomo Benedetto. Consensus in legislative voting in the European Parliament
2) Sara Hagemann. Voting and formal statements in the Council: How governments record their positions in the enlarged EU
3) Bjorn Hoyland. Dynamic ideal point estimates from MEP's voting behaviour
4) Daniel Naurin. Cooperation patterns in the Council before and after enlargement
5) Anne Rasmussen. Party Soldiers in a non-partisan community? The role of party interests in parliament's conciliation delegation and standing committees
6) Anne Rasmussen. What explains early conclusion in the co-decision legislative procedure?
7) Arndt Wonka. Principal(s), Agent(s), and control - the Commission Revisited
Panel 'New Developments in EU Legislative Studies', EUSA Conference 2007, Montreal, 19 May 2007
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
Research Workshop, European University Institute, March 2007
Research Workshop, 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