Focusing on recent studies of European Union legislative decision-making, this
research note evaluates the current literature that attempts to improve the
explanatory power of bargaining models by integrating game-theoretic spatial models
with micro-level data gained from expert interviews or from document analyses.
Enelow, James M.
and
Melvin J. Hinich
(1984) The Spatial Theory of Voting.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
.
2.
Konig, Thomas
(2005)
‘The Unit of Analysis, the Nature of Policy Spaces and the Model Approach’
, Journal of Theoretical Politics, this volume.
3.
Konig, Thomas
and
Mirja Poter
(2001)
‘Examining the EU Legislative Process: The Relative Importance of
Agenda and Veto Power’
, European Union Politics2:
329-351
.
4.
Kreppel, Amie
(2001) The European Parliament and Supranational Party
System.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
.
5.
Laver, Michael
,
Kenneth Benoit
and
John Garry
(2003)
‘Extracting Policy Positions from Political Texts Using Words as Data’
, American Political Science Review97:
311-332
.
6.
Laver, Michael
and
John Garry
(2000)
‘Estimating Policy Positions from Political Texts’
, American Journal of Political Science44:
619-634
.
7.
Mattila, Mikko
and
Jan-Erik Lane
(2001)
‘Voting in the EU Council of Ministers: Will Enlargement Change
the Unanimity Pattern?’
, European Union Politics2:
31-52
.
8.
Moravcsik, Andrew
(1998) The Choice for Europe: Social Purpose and State Power
from Messina to Maastricht.
London: UCL Press
.
9.
Rittberger, Berthold
(2005) Building Europe’s Parliament: Democratic
Representation Beyond the Nation State.
Oxford: Oxford University Press
(forthcoming).
10.
Rubinstein, Ariel
(1982)
‘Perfect Equilibrium in a Bargaining Model’
, Econometrica50:
97-109
.
11.
Schneider, Gerald
and
Lars-Erik Cederman
(1994)
‘The Change of Tide in Political Cooperation: A Limited
Information Model of European Integration’
, International Organization48:
633-662
.
12.
Schulz, Heiner
and
Thomas Konig
(2000)
‘Institutional Reform and Decision-making Efficiency in the
European Union’
, American Journal of Political Science44:
653-666
.
13.
Selck, Torsten J.
(2003)
‘Evaluating the Predictive Power of a Procedural Model for the
European Union Legislative Process’
, Journal of Legislative Studies9:
140-152
.
14.
Selck, Torsten J.
(2004)
‘On the Dimensionality of European Union Legislative Decision-making’
, Journal of Theoretical Politics16:
203-222
.
15.
Selck, Torsten J.
(2005) ‘Veto Players, Decision Rules, and
Dimensionality: The Effects of Institutional Change on Organizational
Decision-Making’, in
Gianfranco Gambarelli
and
Manfred Holler
(eds) Measuring Power III,
Homo Oeconomicus
special issue 21 (forthcoming).
16.
(special issue: Winners and Losers of EU Decision Making)
5(1):
5-24
.
17.
Thomson, Robert
,
Frans N. Stokman
,
Christopher H. Achen
and
Thomas Konig
, eds (2005) The European Union Decides.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
.
18.
Tsebelis, George
(2002) Veto Players: How Political Institutions Work.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
.
