Consensus under pressure
| Autor: | Renaud Dehousse, Selma Bendjaballah, Stéphanie Novak |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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EU institutions
021110 strategic defence & security studies compromise Sociology and Political Science conflict 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology Legislative process 0506 political science consensus Political science Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration Settore SPS/04 - Scienza Politica Law and economics |
| Zdroj: | Politique européenne. :44-70 |
| ISSN: | 1623-6297 |
| DOI: | 10.3917/poeu.058.0044 |
| Popis: | Published online: 16 April 2018 The current crisis could lead us to expect an overall increase of conflicts in the EU legislative process and eventually a shift from a consensual system to a majoritarian system. This paper aims to assess the evolution of conflict in the EU legislative process in order to test this expectation. It constitutes a first attempt to deepen our understanding of conflict in the EU legislative process thanks to the database of the Observatory of European Institutions. We first define several intra-institutional and inter-institutional indicators of conflict. Then we assess the evolution of conflict for the period 1996-2014. The data show a limited increase of conflict in the legislative process. However, the legislative actors still comply with the norm of consensus; the EU political system has not shifted from a consensual system to a majoritarian system. In order to explain this trend and apparent lack of change, we suggest several hypotheses: The institutions' adaptation by stealth; the inter-institutional drive towards legislative productivity; institutional patriotism. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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