Democratic Legitimacy in the EU: Inside the 'Black Box' of Informal Trilogues

欧盟的民主合法性：非正式三部曲的“黑匣子”内部

• 批准号: ES/N018761/1
• 负责人: Justin Greenwood
• 金额: $ 36.97万
• 依托单位: Robert Gordon University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2016 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FN018761%2F1
• 关键词: Democratic; Legitimacy; EU; Inside; Black

Can the EU govern efficiently and with the people? Almost all EU legislation is now agreed in an early stage, facilitated by informal 'trilogue' negotiations in which a small number of representatives of three EU institutions bargain behind closed doors and present the agreement for approval in public meetings. We examine the complex dynamics of this 'black box' and assess the ability of EU institutions to bargain successfully, to foster or preclude political contestation, to create political coalitions across institutions, and avoid capture by special interests. We do this by combining, first, a comprehensive, large-scale analysis of patterns of trilogue negotiations, tracing systematically the evolution of Council and EP preferences in order to determine their respective bargaining success (package 1, Netherlands project team); second, in-depth process-tracing studies to explore what happens when issues with high political stakes enter the world of trilogues, i.e we examine the conditions under which informal trilogues affect bargaining success by looking at intra- and extra-institutional actors and their strategies to manage information flows (package 2, UK project team) and explore how both mainstream and Eurosceptic and/or radical political groups mediate cross-institutional contestation (package 3, German project team). A fourth section (package 4) will bring these findings together to explain how patterns of contestation affect the evolution of preferences during the course of legislative negotiations (all project teams).

欧盟能与人民一起有效治理吗？几乎所有的欧盟立法现在都在早期阶段达成一致，这是通过非正式的“三方”谈判促进的，在这种谈判中，三个欧盟机构的少数代表关起门来讨价还价，并在公开会议上提交协议供批准。我们研究了这个“黑箱”的复杂动态，并评估了欧盟机构成功讨价还价、促进或排除政治争论、建立跨机构政治联盟以及避免被特殊利益集团捕获的能力。为此，我们首先对三方谈判模式进行全面、大规模的分析，系统地追踪理事会和欧洲议会偏好的演变，以确定它们各自的谈判成功（第1包，荷兰项目团队）；第二，深入的过程追踪研究，以探索当具有高政治利害关系的问题进入三部曲世界时会发生什么，即我们通过观察机构内和机构外的行动者及其管理信息流的策略（第2部分，英国项目团队）来研究非正式三部曲影响谈判成功的条件，并探索主流和欧洲怀疑论者和/或激进政治团体如何调解跨机构的争论（第3部分，英国项目团队）。德国项目团队)。第四部分（第4包）将把这些发现结合起来，解释在立法谈判过程中（所有项目团队），争论的模式如何影响偏好的演变。

项目成果

NGOs in the European Union: between institutionalisation and participation

欧盟非政府组织：制度化与参与之间

• 发表时间: 2018
• 作者: Greenwood J

The European Parliament in Times of EU Crisis - Dynamics and Transformations

欧盟危机时期的欧洲议会——动态与转型

• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-97391-3_6
• 发表时间: 2019
• 作者: Greenwood J

Organized interests and trilogues: outsiders inside?

有组织的利益和三部曲：局内人？

• 期刊: Under review
• 作者: Greenwood J

Inside the black box of trilogues: introduction to the special issue

三部曲的黑匣子内部：特刊简介

• DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2020.1859600
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Journal of European Public Policy
• 影响因子: 4.2
• 作者: Brandsma;Greenwood;Ripoll Servent;Roederer-Rynning
• 通讯作者: Roederer-Rynning

Trilogues in Council: disrupting the diplomatic culture?

枢密院三部曲：扰乱外交文化？

• DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2020.1859594
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Journal of European Public Policy
• 影响因子: 4.2
• 作者: Brandsma G