Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction: An Institutionalist Perspective on Conflict in EU Budgetary Politics Part 1. Variation in the Level of Conflict in EU Budgetary Politics 2. A Rational Choice-Institutionalist Explanation of Conflict in EU Budgetary Politics 3. Obstructing Decision-making: Conflict between Parliament and Council in the Annual Budgetary Procedure (1974 – 1988) 4. Facilitating Decision-making: Cooperation between Parliament and Council in the Annual Budgetary Procedure under the Interinstitutional Agreement (1988 – 2000) 5. Blocking Intergovernmental Relations: Conflict between the UK and the other Member States over British Net-contributions (1974 – 1984) 6. Accepting Intergovernmental Burden Sharing: Negotiations between Germany and the other Member States over German Net-contributions within the Framework of the Financial Perspective (1992 – 1999) 7. Summary of the Findings and Update of the Theoretical Explanation Part 2. Institutional Change in EU Budgetary Politics 8. A Rational Choice-Institutionalist Explanation of Institutional Change in EU Budgetary Politics 9. Resisting Reform: the Stability of the Institutional Path of the 1970 Treaty and its Final Break-down (1974 – 1988) 10. Initiating a new Institutional Path: Stability of the Financial Perspective and the Interinstitutional Agreement (1988 – 2000) 11. Summary of the Findings and Update of the Theoretical Explanation 12. Conclusions Appendices Bibliography
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Lindner, Johannes
'This book provides an exceptionally thorough analysis of the development of budgetary decision-making in the EU and is essential reading for anyone interested in the EU budget.' - Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 44
