Byrokratizace rozhodování v Evropské unii po východním rozšíření

• Authors: Michal Parízek , Běla Plechanovová , Madeleine O. Hosli

Title variants

EN

The Bureaucratisation of Decision-Making in the European Union after Eastern Enlargement

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This article seeks to describe some important changes that have occurred in EU decision-making procedures since its eastern enlargement and to explain how it is that the decision-making process continues to function relatively smoothly in the EU even after a sharp increase in the number of Member States and despite generally shared fears to the contrary. The analysis focuses on the main decision-making body in the EU, the Council of the European Union, where it was expected the biggest problems would occur after enlargement, including the prediction that the increase in EU membership could result in the obstruction of decision-making in the Council. The authors argue that the Council managed to avoid this problem by shifting a major part of the Council’s agenda from the political level of ministerial proceedings to the Council’s main administrative body, the Committee of Permanent Representatives. The authors test their hypothesis about the Council’s adjustment using a large quantitative data sample encompassing more than 4000 acts that the Council of the EU took decisions on between 1999 and 2009.

Keywords

EN

European Union; decision-making processes; Council of the European Union; eastern enlargement; bureaucratisation; Committee of Permanent Representatives

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 51
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 41-64

Contributors

author

Michal Parízek

• Institut politologických studií, Fakulta sociálních věd, Univerzita Karlova v Praze , U Kříže 8, 158 00 Praha 5 – Jinonice, Czech Republic

author

Běla Plechanovová

author

Madeleine O. Hosli

Identifiers

DOI

10.13060/00380288.2015.51.1.153