Bargaining and Distribution of Power in the EU's Conciliation Committee

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The European Union (EU) has moved towards bicameralism, making the codecision procedure its most important mechanism for decision making. To gauge if European Parliament (EP) and Council of Ministers (CM) are equally powerful codecision makers', understanding of the final stage of the procedure - bargaining in the Conciliation Committee - is crucial. Here, EP and CM are assumed to have spatial preferences determined by their respective internal decision mechanisms. Applying bargaining theory to predict inter-institutional agreements in the Conciliation Committee, it turns out that although institutionally the Council and the Parliament are seemingly in a symmetric position, CM has significantly greater influence on EU legislation.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 1029

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Subject: European Union codecision procedure ; Conciliation Committee ; bargaining ; spatial voting ; decision procedures

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Napel, Stefan ; Widgrén, Mika
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (where): Munich
• (when): 2003

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/76620
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET