Who gets what in the european union and why?

Javier Arregui ^[1]
1. [1] Universitat Pompeu Fabra
  
  Universitat Pompeu Fabra
  
  Barcelona, España
Localización: Repensar la democracia: inclusión y diversidad : IX Congreso Español de Ciencia Política y de la Administración: celebrado en Málaga 23, 24 y 25 de septiembre de 2009 / Juan Luis Paniagua Soto (dir. congr.), 2009
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- This article analyses whether (or not) the policy outcomes produced by the EU decision making process are congruent with actors´ policy preferences. The present study argues that the idea of congruence is conceptually and empirically distinct from bargaining success which has been previously studied. While bargaining success measures how much an actor won or lost compared to how much it could have lost given the range of the bargaining space, the congruence between actors´ positions and decision outcomes measures the substantive policy differences between actor´s demands and policy outcomes. This research reveals that although there are no clear winners and losers in the EU decision making, when the data is scrutinized across different types of issues there are some member states who clearly obtain more policy outcomes than others. The analysis indicates the relevance of some of the most important explanatory variables and assumptions included in the bargaining and procedural models.