Unveiling the Council of the European Union

1. Introduction: from Rags to Riches

1. Introduction: from Rags to Riches
Daniel Naurin, Helen Wallace

Section One. Coalition-Building

2. Voting and Coalitions in the Council after the Enlargement
Mikko Mattila

3. Voting, Statements and Coalition-Building in the Council from 1999 to 2006
Sara Hagemann

4. East-North-South: Coalition-Building in the Council before and after Enlargement
Daniel Naurin, Rutger Lindahl

Section Two. Consensus

5. Veto Player Theory and Consensus Behaviour
Thomas König, Dirk Junge

6. The Mechanisms of Consensus: Coming to Agreement on Community Asylum Policy
Jonathan P. Aus

Section Three. Deliberation

7. Deliberation and Bargaining in the Article 113 Committee and the 1996/97 IGC Representatives Group
Arne Niemann

8. Risk Regulation, GMOs and the Limits of Deliberation
Mark A. Pollack, Gregory C. Shaffer

9. Strategic Bargaining, Norms and Deliberation
Jeffrey Lewis

Section Four. Leadership

10. The Power of the Chair: Formal Leadership by the Council Presidency
Jonas Tallberg

11. Steering, but not Dominating: the Impact of the Council Presidency on EU Legislation
Andreas Warntjen

12. The Facilitator of Efficient Negotiations in the Council: the Impact of the Council Secretariat
Derek Beach

13. The Relative Power of Member States in the Council: Large and Small, Old and New
Robert Thomson

Section Five. Methodological Debate

14. How Should We Best Study the Council of Ministers?
Dorothee Heisenberg

15. Neither Goethe nor Bismarck: on the Link between Theory and Empirics in Council Decision-Making Studies
Gerald Schneider

Nyckelord: Political Science and International Relations, European Union Politics, International Relations, Political Science, Comparative Politics, Globalization