Abstract
In a spirited attack, Dorothee Heisenberg takes issue with the emerging field of quantitatively-oriented European Union studies in general and the formal modelling tradition in the exploration of Council of Minister decisionmaking in particular. Drawing on her important article on the ‘culture of consensus’ (Heisenberg 2005), she argues in Chapter 14 above that rationalist scholarship is incapable of enlightening the wheeling and dealing that characterizes decision-making within the intergovernmental legislative body of the European Union.
Experiment.
Make it your motto day and night.
Experiment
And it will lead you to the light.
Cole Porter ‘Experiment’ (1933)
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Schneider, G. (2008). Neither Goethe nor Bismarck: on the Link between Theory and Empirics in Council Decision-Making Studies. In: Naurin, D., Wallace, H. (eds) Unveiling the Council of the European Union. Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583788_15
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