1st Edition

Legislative Codecision in the European Union Experience over Twenty Years and Implications

Edited By Anne Rasmussen, Charlotte Burns, Christine Reh Copyright 2014
    160 Pages
    by Routledge

    160 Pages
    by Routledge

    This volume takes stock of twenty years of practising and studying codecision in the European Union (EU) and examines the procedure’s long-term implications for the EU’s institutions, politics and policies. The introduction of co-legislation between the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament in 1993 raised the prospect of increased parliamentary involvement in EU decision-making and promised a new era of more transparent, inclusive and accountable policy-making. This collection draws together contributions from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives in order to analyse the extent to which codecision has delivered the expected gains and to review the unexpected effects that have followed from its introduction, such as the growing informalisation of EU decision-making. Using a combination of in-depth qualitative case studies, wider quantitative analyses, practitioners’ insights and a review of the procedure’s democratic legitimacy the contributions offer a holistic assessment of the effect of co-decision on the political system of the EU.

    This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

    1. Legislative Co-decision and its Impact on the Political System of the European Union  Charlotte Burns Environment Department, University of York; Anne Rasmussen, Department of Public Administration, University of Leiden; Christine Reh, Department of Political Science, University College London

    2. The Effect of Co-decision on Council decision-making: Informalization, politicization, and power  Frank Häge, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick; Daniel Naurin, Centre for European Research (CERGU) and Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg

    3. Holding the European Parliament Responsible: Policy Shift in the Data Retention Directive from Consultation to Co-decision  Ariadna Ripoll Servent, Institute for European Integration Research, University of Vienna

    4. Consensus and compromise become ordinary – but at what cost? A critical analysis of the impact of the changing norms of co-decision upon European Parliament committees  Charlotte Burns, Environment Department, University of York

    5. The consequences of concluding co-decision early: trilogues and intra-institutional bargaining success  Anne Rasmussen, Department of Public Administration, University of Leiden; Christine Reh, Department of Political Science, University College London

    6. The distribution of power among EU institutions: who wins under co-decision and why?  Rory Costello, Department of Politics & Public Administration, University of Limerick; Robert Thomson, School of Government and Public Policy, University of Strathclyde

    7. Co-decision: a practitioners’ view from inside the Parliament  Katrin Huber, European Parliament; Michael Shackleton, Department of Political Science, University of Maastricht

    8. The Democratic Legitimacy of Co-decision  Christopher Lord, ARENA, The Centre for European Studies, The University of Oslo

    9. Twenty Years of Legislative Co-decision in the European Union: Experience and Implications  Adrienne Héritier, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute

    Biography

    Anne Rasmussen is Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.Charlotte Burns is Lecturer in Environmental Policy and Politics in the Department of Environment, University of York.Christine Reh is Senior Lecturer in European Politics in the Department of Political Science, University College London.