Artikel

One agenda-setter or many? The varying success of policy initiatives by individual Directorates-General of the European Commission 1994–2016

Analyses of strategic agenda-setting in the European Union treat the European Commission as a unitary actor with perfect information. Yet, the constraints for correctly anticipating acceptable policies vary heavily across its individual Directorates-General. Do these internal rifts affect the Commission’s agenda-setting ability? This article tests corresponding expectations on the edit distances between 2237 Commission proposals and the adopted laws across 23 years. The quality of legislative anticipation indeed varies with the responsible Directorate-General. Legislative proposals are more likely to remain unchanged if they face less parliamentary involvement, are less complex, were drafted by an experienced Directorate-General, and were coordinated more seamlessly within the Commission. However, the uncovered variation also calls for more systematic research on the distribution of legislative capacities inside the Commission.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: European Union Politics ; ISSN: 1465-1165 ; Volume: 22 ; Year: 2021 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 3-24 ; Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage

Klassifikation
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
Thema
agenda-setting
European Commission
European Parliament
legislative politics
text analysis

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Rauh, Christian
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Sage
(wo)
Thousand Oaks, CA
(wann)
2021

DOI
doi:10.1177/1465116520961467
Handle
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  • Rauh, Christian
  • Sage

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  • 2021

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