Socialisation and decision-making in the Council of the European Union

• Authors: Ławniczak, Kamil

Abstracts

EN

The complex system of decision-making in the Council of the European Union has many specific features which require explanation. This article presents a constructivist approach to this problem and focuses on the influence of socialisation. First, it explains why inquiry into the decision-making in the Council from the constructivist perspective is justified and then proposes the use of process-tracing, a method that allows to trace causal mechanisms linking the effects of socialisation and the characteristics of decision-making in the Council. Second, a typology of socialisation mechanisms and effects is presented. The third section is an attempt to use the inductive variety of process-tracing in order to explain certain qualities of decision-making in the Council. The final section outlines the theory-oriented approach to process-tracing, which could follow from the presented conceptualisation and explains the need to include the constitutive aspects of socialisation within the causal framework of process-tracing research.

Keywords

EN

effects of socialisation; bureaucratic decision-making; culture of consensus; modes of negotiation; reversed representation; process-tracing; causal mechanisms

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Przegląd Europejski
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 2015 (38)(4)
• Pages: 122-140

Dates

published

2020-03-21

Contributors

author

Ławniczak, Kamil

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31338/1641-2478pe.4.15.7