Their term in office as the Council Presidency offers Member States a unique opportunity to steer the Union's legislative activity according to their national priorities. This article offers evidence in the field of environmental policy for the period 1984 to 2001. Copyright (c) 2007 The...

To describe and explain legislative politics in the European Union and to assess its democratic quality we need to measure the political importance (salience) of legislative proposals. The existing literature uses several indicators to measure salience. This article compares measures of salience...

The potential impact of the EU Council Presidency on legislative decision-making has been frequently identified. This article provides an empirical analysis of the Presidency's influence on decision outcomes based on a large-n data set. Two counterfactuals are used to represent consensual...