Kto i z kim? Analiza rozbieżności stanowisk w głosowaniach w Radzie Unii Europejskiej w latach 2009–2014

• Authors: Gorgosz Adrian

Title variants

EN

Who and with whom? Analysis of the divergence of voting in the Council of the European Union between 2009 and 2014

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Celem artykułu jest analiza przypadków kontestacji decyzji w Radzie Unii Europejskiej podczas głosowania nad aktami legislacyjnymi w zwykłej procedurze ustawodawczej, w okresie 2009–2014. W pierwszym kroku postawiono dwie hipotezy badawcze. Pierwsza zakładała dominację kultury koalicyjności w głosowaniach, druga zakładała odwrotnie, dominację kultury konsensusu. Dodatkowo postawiono dwie hipotezy zakładające istnienie konfliktów w Unii Europejskiej pomiędzy państwami północy i południa oraz „starej” i „nowej” Unii. W celu weryfikacji hipotez zastosowano technikę skalowania wielowymiarowego. Analiza empiryczna wykazała, że dominującą kulturą głosowania jest kultura konsensusu. Pomimo tego, kilka państw zdecydowanie podkreślało swoje odrębne stanowiska, próbując tworzyć koalicje kontestujące. Ponadto, nie potwierdziły się konflikty pomiędzy państwami z północy i południa Europy oraz z „nowej” i „starej” Unii.

EN

The purpose of the article is to analyse the cases of contestation of decisions in the Council of the European Union during voting on legislative acts in the ordinary legislative procedure, in the period 2009–2014. In the first step, two research hypotheses were delineated. The first one assumed the dominance of the coalition culture in voting, the second one assumed the opposite, the dominance of the culture of consensus. In addition, two further hypotheses were delineated which assumed conflicts in the European Union between the countries of the north and south and between the “old” vs. “new” Union. In order to verify the hypotheses, a multidimensional scaling technique was applied. Empirical analysis confirmed that the dominant culture of voting is the culture of consensus. Despite this, several countries strongly emphasised their separate positions, trying to form coalitions. Moreover, conflicts between the north and south Europe and the “new” and “old” Union were not confirmed.

Keywords

PL

Rada Unii Europejskiej; budowanie koalicji; zwykła procedura ustawodawcza; Unia Europejska; prawodawstwo UE; skalowanie wielowymiarowe

EN

Council of the European Union; coalition building; ordinary legislative procedure; European Union; EU legislation; multidimensional scaling

• Publisher: Wydział Nauk Politycznych i Studiów Międzynarodowych, Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Journal: Przegląd Europejski
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 2(48)
• Pages: 175-198

Dates

published

2018

Contributors

author

Gorgosz Adrian

• Uniwersytet Jagielloński

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