Time is of the essence: Explaining the duration of European Union lawmaking under the co-decision procedure

IF 2.3 2区社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

International Political Science Review Pub Date : 2021-10-06 DOI:10.1177/01925121211036423

Adam Kirpsza

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Abstract

The article explores factors affecting the duration of the co-decision procedure (currently the ordinary legislative procedure), the main procedure for adopting legislation in the European Union. Drawing from rational choice institutionalism, it expects the speed of co-decision to be determined by three attributes: the impatience of legislators, issue linkage and the characteristics of Council and European Parliament negotiators (relais actors). The hypotheses are tested using survival analysis on a dataset of 599 controversial legislative acts submitted and enacted under co-decision between 1999 and 2009. The results show that co-decision proposals are decided faster when they are urgent, negotiated prior to the European Parliament elections and concluded through single proposal logrolls. By contrast, multi-proposal packages and the ideological distance between relais actors prolong decision-making. Overall, the article contributes to the literature by showing that the impatience of legislators, package deals and the properties of negotiators are relevant drivers of co-decision duration.

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时间至关重要:解释共同决定程序下欧盟立法的持续时间

共同决定程序是欧盟立法的主要程序，本文探讨了影响共同决定程序(目前为普通立法程序)持续时间的因素。从理性选择制度主义出发，它期望共同决策的速度由三个属性决定:立法者的不耐心、问题联系以及理事会和欧洲议会谈判代表(相关行动者)的特征。这些假设是通过生存分析对1999年至2009年期间提交并在共同决定下颁布的599项有争议的立法法案的数据集进行检验的。结果表明，当共同决策提案是紧急的，在欧洲议会选举之前进行谈判，并通过单一提案投票结束时，共同决策提案的决定速度更快。相比之下，多提案包和相关行动者之间的意识形态距离延长了决策。总体而言，本文通过表明立法者的不耐烦，一揽子交易和谈判者的属性是共同决策持续时间的相关驱动因素，从而为文献做出了贡献。

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