The European Parliament as a developing legislature: coming of age in trilogues?

Roederer-Rynning, Christilla; Greenwood, Justin

doi:10.1080/13501763.2016.1184297

Cited by 48 publications

(35 citation statements)

References 36 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…We consider the MSR case as typical because it corresponds to the key characteristics of trilogue negotiations as described by Roederer‐Rynning and Greenwood (): conducted on the basis of mandates from both institutions, encompassing several parallel intra‐ and inter‐institutional contacts, and with a crucial role for agents in conciliating the initially diverging positions of the co‐legislators. Yet, whereas the case is particularly typical for the Council side (where COREPER I is in charge of a vast majority of OLP files), the scope of generalizability for the EP side is probably limited to policy‐making processes within the ENVI committee, as the different committees in the EP have developed their own modus operandi to conduct trilogue negotiations (Roederer‐Rynning and Greenwood, ).…”

Section: Negotiating the Market Stability Reserve Decision: Settmentioning

confidence: 99%

Concluding Early Agreements in the EU: A Double Principal‐Agent Analysis of Trilogue Negotiations

Delreux

Laloux

2017

J of Common Market Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Applying a principal-agent perspective on trilogue negotiations, this article examines how the rapporteur and the Presidency, as agents of respectively the European Parliament and the Council, are able to reach a deal with their fellow agent while avoiding an involuntary defection among their principals. Despite these intra-and inter-institutional constraints, early agreements can be concluded because agents execute two parallel tasks on behalf of their principals: representing them interinstitutionally and acting as the deal-facilitator intra-institutionally. We identify three ways in which the agents can combine these two acts of delegation and conclude an early agreement: (1) creating a tied-hand situation for themselves; (2) affecting the intra-institutional coalition formation by bringing in allies from the other institution; and (3) actively searching for signals from the principals and the fellow agent on the zone of possible agreement. We illustrate these dynamics through a case study of the policy-making process on the 2015 Decision on the Market Stability Reserve.

show abstract

Section: Negotiating the Market Stability Reserve Decision: Settmentioning

confidence: 99%

Concluding Early Agreements in the EU: A Double Principal‐Agent Analysis of Trilogue Negotiations

Delreux

Laloux

2017

J of Common Market Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Existing studies have documented several instances where EP committees adapted to new formal rights and political events by establishing enhanced working practices (intra‐institutional independence and integration), collaboration with EU actors (inter‐institutional integration) or co‐optation of third actors. First, Roederer‐Rynning and Greenwood () describe the EP's institutionalization in trilogues, where different committees developed their distinct internal organization and approaches. Second, the EP's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs established procedures to interact with other EU institutions, such as the European Central Bank, in response to the Eurozone crisis (Fasone ).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In order to ensure a lasting impact of EP empowerment, ad hoc changes in policy capacity have to become institutionalized. We therefore combine insights from the administrative capacity (Egeberg et al 2013;Trondal and Peters 2013) and institutionalization literatures (Farrell and Héritier 2003;Roederer-Rynning and Greenwood 2017). The institutionalization of policy capacity comprises four dimensions: independence, intra-and inter-institutional integration, and cooptation of actors outside the organization (Trondal and Peters 2013).…”

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Putting power into practice: Administrative and political capacity building in the European Parliament's Committee for International Trade

Coremans

Meissner

2018

Public Administration

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

As the formal powers of the European Parliament have increased with successive treaty changes, its committees' administrations have seen a parallel growth. We argue that such administrative capacity is necessary but not sufficient for acting on formal treaty powers. Administrative capacity has to be combined with political capacity in order to muster policy impact in European Union decision‐making. By differentiating between intra‐institutional administrative and inter‐institutional political capacity, we offer a fine‐grained conceptualization of policy capacity while broadening the theoretical and empirical understanding of the European Parliament's administration as an organizational structure of formal and informal working practices, intra‐institutional coordination and inter‐institutional relations. Based on expert interviews, document analysis and participant observation, the case of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership illustrates how societal politicization of a specific policy issue triggered the European Parliament to exploit the latent potential of its post‐Lisbon administrative capacity by transforming it into a more readily deployable political capacity.

show abstract

“…By changing the composition of the agents, the reforms have allowed the latter to increase their discretion (Reh 2014;Roederer-Rynning and Greenwood 2017). Interviews confirm that decisions on trilogue compromises are often taken "in just the small teams" (Interview E) and thus without intervention of the committee.…”

Section: Explanation Of the Choice Of Negotiating Teamsmentioning

confidence: 94%

Designing a Collective Agent for Trilogues in the European Parliament

Laloux

2017

The Principal Agent Model and the European Union

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The European Parliament as a developing legislature: coming of age in trilogues?

Cited by 48 publications

References 36 publications

Concluding Early Agreements in the EU: A Double Principal‐Agent Analysis of Trilogue Negotiations

Concluding Early Agreements in the EU: A Double Principal‐Agent Analysis of Trilogue Negotiations

Putting power into practice: Administrative and political capacity building in the European Parliament's Committee for International Trade

Designing a Collective Agent for Trilogues in the European Parliament

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About