Date: 2017
Type: Article
Consensus under pressure : the evolution of conflict in the EU legislative process
Politique européenne, 2017, Vol. 58, No. 4, pp. 44-70
DEHOUSSE, Renaud, NOVAK, Stéphanie, BENDJABALLAH, Selma, Consensus under pressure : the evolution of conflict in the EU legislative process, Politique européenne, 2017, Vol. 58, No. 4, pp. 44-70
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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.
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Published online: 16 April 2018
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/59652
Full-text via DOI: 10.3917/poeu.058.0044
ISSN: 1623-6297; 2105-2875
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