Decision Rules in the European Union A Rational Choice Perspective [Hardcover]

This book brings together scholars from economic and political science to study the interactions within the European Union from a strategic or rational choice perspective. The contributors seek to understand the relationship between member states and competing European institutions. The book focuses on the horizontal checks and balances including the countervailing forces of legislative, regulatory, bureaucratic, and constitutional decision-making. Other examinations analyze the vertical structures, in particular the impact of the federal distributions of power on policy choices.This book brings together scholars from economic and political science to study the interactions within the European Union from a strategic or rational choice perspective. The contributors seek to understand the relationship between member states and competing European institutions. The book focuses on the horizontal checks and balances including the countervailing forces of legislative, regulatory, bureaucratic, and constitutional decision-making. Other examinations analyze the vertical structures, in particular the impact of the federal distributions of power on policy choices.Peter Moser is Professor of Economics at Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Tourismus Chur, Switzerland.

Gerald Schneider is Professor of International Politics at the University of Konstanz, Germany.

Gebhard Kirchgässner is Professor of Economics at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.