Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/63636 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
ETLA Discussion Papers No. 944
Publisher: 
The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes the a priori influence of the European Parliament (EP) and the Council of Ministers (CM) on legislation of the European Union adopted under its codecision procedure. In contrast to studies which use conventional power indices, both institutions are assumed to act strategically. Predicted bargaining outcomes of the crucial Conciliation stage of codecision are shown to be strongly biased towards the legislative status quo. Making symmetric preference assumptions for members of CM and EP, CM is on average much more conservative because of its internal qualified majority rule. This makes CM by an order of magnitude more influential than EP, in contrast to a seeming formal parity between the two ‘co-legislators’.
Subjects: 
Power measurement
European Union codecision procedure
bargaining
spatial voting
decision procedures
JEL: 
C70
C78
D70
D72
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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