Reassessing the Agenda-Setting Powers of the European Commission

What is it about?

This article questions the actual political agenda setting role of the EU Commission and examines is practical influence over eventual policy outcomes through a large N data analysis. It concludes that, while stiull important, the real agenda setting powers of the Commission are quite constrained despite its formal monopoly over policy initiation. Comission success is often a function of luck (in sharing policy preferences with the legislative actors) rather than power.

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