TY - JOUR
AU - Kelley, Judith
AB -  “We can understand neither power, nor policy, nor institutional change in the absence of a theory of procedural politics,”(p. 224) Joseph Jupille claims. However, politicians understand those quite well without an explicit theory. Indeed, if they did not understand them, they could not optimize in the ways the theory suggests. Nevertheless, Jupille shows that, as is often the case, formally laying out the theory is rewarding. Jupille’s theory is all about rules. Or more precisely, bargaining over rules: not what the formal rules should be, but which of these rules should apply, what legislative processes should be used, how policy should be made. His procedural politics theory raises many interesting questions, not just for EU scholars, but also across a variety of systems ranging from international organizations to national politics. In recent decades, scholars like Barry R. Weingast, George Tsebelis, and Geoffrey Garrett have developed theories about the effects of rules. Jupille takes this literature one step further by asking: what are the empirical conditions under which the “effects literature” applies? The argument is straight rational choice. When does it happen? Procedural politics is a product of opportunity and potential gain: the more ambiguous the legislative process and 
TI - Procedural Politics: Issues, Influence, and Institutional Choice in the European Union by Joseph Jupille
JO - Political Science Quarterly
DO - 10.1002/j.1538-165x.2005.tb01377.x
DA - 2005-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/procedural-politics-issues-influence-and-institutional-choice-in-the-pLvlCLgStf
SP - 332
VL - 120
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -