Too Big to Run? : Analyzing the impact of enlargement on the speed of EU decision making

Hertz, Robin; Leuffen, Dirk

Too Big to Run? : Analyzing the impact of enlargement on the speed of EU decision making

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2011

Authors

Hertz, Robin

Leuffen, Dirk

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European Union Politics ; 12 (2011), 2. - pp. 193-215. - ISSN 1465-1165

Abstract

The article analyses how enlargements affect the speed of European Union (EU) decision-making. In line with rationalist theories of group choice, we argue that enlargements increase the costs of organizing decisions, i.e. transaction costs. Increasing transaction costs, in turn, slow down EU law-making. We test this theory by estimating Cox regression models that incorporate time-varying covariates on all directives, regulations and decisions submitted by the European Commission between 1976 and 2006. In contrast to previous analyses, we show that an increase in group size indeed slows down EU law-making.

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HERTZ, Robin, Dirk LEUFFEN, 2011. Too Big to Run? : Analyzing the impact of enlargement on the speed of EU decision making. In: European Union Politics. 12(2), pp. 193-215. ISSN 1465-1165. Available under: doi: 10.1177/1465116511399162

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@article{Hertz2011Analy-18510,
  year={2011},
  doi={10.1177/1465116511399162},
  title={Too Big to Run? : Analyzing the impact of enlargement on the speed of EU decision making},
  number={2},
  volume={12},
  issn={1465-1165},
  journal={European Union Politics},
  pages={193--215},
  author={Hertz, Robin and Leuffen, Dirk}
}

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