Decision Rules in the European Union: A Rational Choice Perspective - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 031223029X ISBN 13: 9780312230296

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

Synopsis

This book brings together scholars from economic and political science to study the interactions within the European Union from a strategic or rational choice perspective. The contributors seek to understand the relationship between member states and competing European institutions. The book focuses on the horizontal checks and balances including the countervailing forces of legislative, regulatory, bureaucratic, and constitutional decision-making. Other examinations analyze the vertical structures, in particular the impact of the federal distributions of power on policy choices

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Synopsis

European and American scholars from the fields of economic and political science examine the interactions within the European Union from a strategic or rational choice perspective. Contributors seek out the logic of European institutions and identify possible hindrance to the creation of efficient and democratically legitimized institutions. Topics

About the Author

Peter Moser is Professor of Economics at Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Tourismus Chur, Switzerland.

Gerald Schneider is Professor of International Politics at the University of Konstanz, Germany.

Gebhard Kirchgässner is Professor of Economics at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 031223029X
• ISBN 13: 9780312230296
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 314
• Editor: Moser P.