Interests, Legitimacy, and Constitutional Choice:
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In this paper we address the issue of the steady and significant increase in the scope of the codecision procedure and the motivation of the member states for increasing the power of the European Parliament. Using a rational choice framework we argue that the important variable in the assessment of the changes in the decision making procedures is the expected benefit from the various legislative procedures to political actors, since these procedures are used for a multitude of issues. Subsequently, we examine the issue areas to which codecision has been extended by the Amsterdam Treaty. We show why the member states changed legislative procedures in some issue areas, as embodied in the respective treaty articles, while in other areas they kept the procedure the same. * Leiden University, Department of Public Administration, P.O. Box 9555, 2300 RB Leiden, the Netherlands; e-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]. We would like to thank Karen Anderson, Ron Holzhacker, and the participants at the 1999 ECPR workshop session in Mannheim for their helpful comments. We thank Paul Bonsma and Marijn Huijbregts for their research assistance. Interests, Legitimacy, and Constitutional Choice: The extension of the codecision procedure in Amsterdam
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