European Union Politics

Abstract

The European Union has become an important area of research for theoretical and empirical scholars of analytical politics. This is not least due to the large number of decision making procedures, institutional reforms, enlargements, and legislative actors in the European Union that offer particularly specific tests of hypotheses from analytical politics on the implications of institutional design and conflicting interests. This panel invites papers that develop or test analytic models of EU lawmaking or new methods for empirical research against this background. The topics range from research on bargaining and consensus in EU legislation to veto players analyses and agent-based models of the decision making process.