dc.contributor.author | DEHOUSSE, Renaud | |
dc.contributor.author | NOVAK, Stéphanie | |
dc.contributor.author | BENDJABALLAH, Selma | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-11-28T13:13:08Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-11-28T13:13:08Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Politique européenne, 2017, Vol. 58, No. 4, pp. 44-70 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1623-6297 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2105-2875 | EN |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/59652 | |
dc.description | Published online: 16 April 2018 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Politique européenne | |
dc.title | Consensus under pressure : the evolution of conflict in the EU legislative process | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3917/poeu.058.0044 | |
dc.identifier.volume | 58 | |
dc.identifier.startpage | 44 | |
dc.identifier.endpage | 70 | |
dc.identifier.issue | 4 | |