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Voting in EU Decision-Making

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The chapter describes how voting in EU decision-making works in practice in order to clarify how the voting data to be analyzed is produced and which kind of shortcomings of the data need to be taken into account. First, the decision-making process of the EU’s bicameral legislature is sketched. Then, the voting procedure in the European Parliament (EP) is described in detail, followed by a discussion of a potential bias in EP roll-call voting data. Concerning the Council, it is recounted how the term “voting” is used in the literature and what it shall mean in this study. Finally, a potential bias in Council voting data and its effects on the present study are discussed.

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Mühlböck, M. (2017). Voting in EU Decision-Making. In: Voting Unity of National Parties in Bicameral EU Decision-Making. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39465-7_2

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