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Between Chaos and Sclerosis:. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Sep 2008, Pages: 312
This study examines the stability of legislative
decisions in the European Union before and after
enlargement and after the possible entry into force
of the Lisbon Treaty. Stability of decisions is
analysed both in terms of a risk of
decision cycles and in terms of the frequency of
gridlock situations. The risk of such ‘chaotic’
decisions depends on three parameters, the applied
decision rules, the dimensionality of the conflict
space and the heterogeneity of actor preferences.
Dietrich Drüner uses the concepts of the core and the
winset, which stem from spatial voting and veto
players theory and which incorporate the three
parameters. Testing these concepts against a data
set about 70 legislative proposals, Dietrich Drüner
generates empirical findings about the impacts of
enlargement and institutional reform on the EU’s
decision-making processes.
This book is intended for scholars of European
integration and politics as well as policy makers at
both the European and the national level.
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