Bureaucrats as law-makers
Subtitle: committee decision-making in the EU Council of Ministers
By: Frank M. Häge
Series: Routledge / UACES contemporary European studies -- 21
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780415689670; 9780203104507
Subjects: Committees; Legislation; Decision making; Council of the European Union
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and background; title: The study of Council committees; title: The Council's committee system; title: Existing research on Council decision-making; title: Theoretical perspectives on committee decision-making; title: Sample selection; title: Describing the extent of committee decision-making; title: Explaining the variation in committee decision-making; title: Methodological issues; title: Agriculture; title: Environment; title: Economic and financial affairs; title: Summary and between-sector comparison; title: Discussion of research results and theory building; title: Conclusion.