TY - BOOK AU - Finke,Daniel AU - Finke,Daniel AU - König,Thomas AU - Proksch,Sven-Oliver AU - Tsebelis,George TI - Reforming the European Union: Realizing the Impossible SN - 9780691153933 AV - KJE4443.32007 .F56 2017 U1 - 341.2422 23 PY - 2012///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Treaties KW - Ratification KW - Revision KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy KW - bisacsh KW - EU constitution KW - EU countries KW - EU KW - European Convention KW - European Union KW - European integration KW - German Presidency KW - Lisbon Treaty KW - Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe KW - Treaty of Lisbon KW - Treaty of Nice KW - Valry Giscard d'Estaing KW - agenda control KW - agenda setting KW - democratic deficit KW - demographic change KW - domestic parliaments KW - domestic politics KW - institutional arrangements KW - institutional reform KW - intergovernmental bargaining KW - internal conflict KW - judiciary powers KW - negative referendums KW - political leaders KW - political parties KW - popular votes KW - principal-agent perspective KW - ratification instrument KW - reform crisis KW - social tension KW - veto players N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures --; Tables --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Chapter one. From the European Convention to the Lisbon Agreement and Beyond: A Veto Player Analysis --; Chapter two. Revealing Constitutional Preferences in the European Convention --; Chapter three. The Art of Political Manipulation in the European Convention --; Chapter four Actors and Positions on the Reform of the Treaty of Nice --; Chapter five. Why (Unpopular) Leaders Announce Popular Votes --; Chapter six. Principals and Agents: From the Convention's Proposal to the Constitutional Treaty --; Chapter seven. In the Aftermath of the Negative Referendums: The Irish Resistance --; Conclusion --; Appendix: Research Design and Methodology --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400842506?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400842506 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400842506.jpg ER -