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The impact of informalisation: Early agreements and voting cohesion in the European Parliament

  • European Union legislative decision-making is increasingly shifted into informal secluded arenas. Scholars have explained this trend and analysed its consequences for bargaining success and democratic legitimacy. Yet, we know little about how informalisation affects legislative behaviour in the European Parliament. This article contributes to closing the gap, by theorising and analysing the impact of ‘early agreements’ on cohesion. Given the reputational, political and transaction costs of failing an early agreement in plenary, we expect political groups to invest heavily in discipline and consensus, and legislators to comply in votes. Using a new dataset, combining Hix et al.’s (2007) roll-call data with original codecision data (1999–2011), we show that informalisation increases cohesion but only for centrist parties. Rapporteurships and votes on ‘costly’ legislative resolutions also matter, but do not mediate the effect of early agreement.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Bressanelli Edoardo, Christel Koop, Christine Reh
Parent Title (English):European Union Politics
ISSN:1465-1165
Publication year:2016
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
First Page:91
Last Page:113
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/1465116515608704
Release Date:2018/11/21
Tag:Cohesion, early agreements, European Parliament, ordinary legislative procedure, political groups
Volume:17
Issue:1
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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