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Browsing by Subject "Bargaining"
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Title:Small States – Big Negotiations Decision-Making Rules and Small State Influence in EU Treaty Negotiations
Author(s):LEHTONEN, TiiaDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This study examines the impact of the decision-making rules, procedures and practices of the European Union on the ability of small Member States to influence Treaty negotiation outcomes, and assesses the causality of ...
Title:The US trade deficit, the decline of the WTO and the rise of regionalism
Author(s):AGUR, ItaiDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper argues that the growing US trade deficit has caused the decline of the WTO and the rise of regional trade agreements. Growing imbalances make countries more selective about who to cooperate with. This is formally ...
Title:Challenging the Commission's right of initiative? Conditions for institutional change and stability
Author(s):RASMUSSEN, AnneDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article examines the conditions under which informal institutional change between EU Treaties becomes formalised in subsequent Treaties. Recent developments in institutional theory show how formal rule changes often ...
Title:Contested competences in the European Union
Author(s):FARRELL, Henry; HERITIER, AdrienneDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this article, we set out an approach to European Union politics that seeks to explain its development using theories of institutional change. In contrast to dominant theories which assume that the Treaties, the governing ...
Title:Second of the two special issues: empirical approaches to deliberative democracy
Author(s):CONOVER, Pamela Johnston; SEARING, Donald D.; FISHKIN, James S.; LUSKIN, Robert C.; KRIESI, Hanspeter; JANSSEN, Davy; KIES, Raphaël; DELLA PORTA, Donatella; ULBERT, Cornelia; RISSE, Thomas; NANZ, Patrizia; STEFFEK, Jens; HABERMAS, JürgenDate:2005Type of Publication:Article