Synopses & Reviews
Procedural Politics develops a theory of everyday politics with respect to rules.
Review
"Joseph Jupille's Procedural Politics is a first-rate work of institutional analysis, combining the theoretical elegance and methodological sophistication of the very best rational-choice work on United States Congressional institutions with a rigorous quantitative and qualitative study of the politics of the European Union. Jupille's hypotheses about the conditions under which, and the ways in which, European Union actors engage in procedural disputes are clearly articulated and tested with rigor, and the implications of the book extend beyond the European Union to any political system - and there are many - in which actors might be tempted to manipulate legislative procedure for their own purposes." Mark Pollack, University of Wisconsin"This book offers answers to one of the trickiest questions in European Union politics: how and why are every-day decision-making rules designed? Jupille develops a highly original and sophisticated theory to answer this question, and tests his theory with an impressive dataset and detailed case-studies. As a result, this is a model piece of contemporary political science research and is sure to be a landmark text in the study of the European Union." Simon Hix, London School of Economics"The book excellently lays out the theory of when and how procedural politics happen." Political Science Quarterly, Judith Kelley, Duke University
About the Author
Joseph Jupille received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Washington in 2000. He is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Florida International University and Associate Director of the Miami European Union Center. His published work has appeared in among others, Annual Review of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and International Organization. He has been EU-US Fulbright Fellow, and SSRC International Dissertation Fellow. Having been awarded a Jean Monnet Fellowship, he spent the 2003-2004 academic year in the Transatlantic Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Fiesole, Italy.
Table of Contents
Part I: 1. Introduction: choice, constraint, and European Union institutions; 2. Theorizing procedural politics: issues, interests, and institutional choice; 3. The EU as a procedural system: rules, preferences, and strategic interaction; 4. Patterns: Determinants and Effects of EU procedural politics; 5. Greening the market? Procedural politics and EU environmental policy; 6. Mad cows and Englishmen: procedural politics and EU agricultural policy; 7. Conclusion: procedural politics and rule governance in the EU and beyond.