Deciding the future of the European Union: Preference formation and treaty reform

Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis G. and Kassim, Hussein ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7603-8377 (2004) Deciding the future of the European Union: Preference formation and treaty reform. Comparative European Politics, 2 (3). pp. 241-260. ISSN 1740-388X

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Abstract

The Convention on the Future of the Europe was a unique event in the history of the European Communities, but, although much has been written about its deliberations, about the Convention as a method of treaty reform, and about the merits and otherwise of the Constitutional Treaty, little attention has been paid so far to the processes by means of which governments (and EU institutions) decide their preferences with respect to the nature of the Union. This article considers how the member states form their preferences, exploring through a critical appraisal of the most elaborate theory of preference formation available — that provided by liberal intergovernmentalism (LI) — the influences on those processes. After a provisional critique of LI, it proposes alternative lines of enquiry about how EU states identify what they want, and summarizes the findings of country studies.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Political, Social and International Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Policy & Politics Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy
Depositing User:	EPrints Services
Date Deposited:	01 Oct 2010 13:55
Last Modified:	21 Jul 2023 09:28
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/8636
DOI:	10.1057/palgrave.cep.6110042

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