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Article: Decision Rules in the European Union: A Rational Choice Perspective.(Review)
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- West European Politics
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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Decision Rules in the European Union: A Rational Choice Perspective. Edited by PETER MOSER, GERALD SCHNEIDER and GEBHARD KIRCHOASSNER. London: Macmillan 2000. Pp.xii + 302, index. [pound]50 (cloth) ISBN 0-312-23029-X.
This volume forms part of the growing literature that focuses attention on institutional aspects of decision-making in the European Union. The central objective of the editors is to illustrate the ways in which a rational choice approach contributes to our understanding of how current decision rules, as well as potential reforms, affect power relations, efficiency and legitimacy within the EU.
Although it is never quite made clear how a ...