TY  - BOOK
AU  - Finke,Daniel
TI  - Reforming the European Union: realizing the impossible 
SN  - 9780691153926 (hardback)
AV  - KJE 4443.32007 R332 2012
U1  - 341.242/2 
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - European Union
KW  - Treaty on European Union
KW  - (1992)
KW  - Protocols, etc
KW  - 2007 December 13
KW  - Tratado de la Unión Europea (1992)
KW  - Tratado de Lisboa, 2007
KW  - Treaties
KW  - Revision
KW  - Ratification
KW  - 20150900
KW  - European Union countries
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Países de la Unión Europea
KW  - Derecho constitucional
KW  - Tratados
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-219) and index
N2  - "For decades the European Union tried changing its institutions, but achieved only unsatisfying political compromises and modest, incremental treaty revisions. In late 2009, however, the EU was successfully reformed through the Treaty of Lisbon. Reforming the European Union examines how political leaders ratified this treaty against all odds and shows how this victory involved all stages of treaty reform negotiations--from the initial proposal to referendums in several European countries. The authors emphasize the strategic role of political leadership and domestic politics, and they use state-of-the-art methodology, applying a comprehensive data set for actors' reform preferences. They look at how political leaders reacted to apparent failures of the process by recreating or changing the rules of the game. While domestic actors played a significant role in the process, their influence over the outcome was limited as leaders ignored negative referendums and plowed ahead with intended reforms. The book's empirical analyses shed light on critical episodes: strategic agenda setting during the European Convention, the choice of ratification instrument, intergovernmental bargaining dynamics, and the reaction of the German Council presidency to the negative referendums in France, the Netherlands, and Ireland."--
ER  -