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Decisional Systems, Adaptiveness, and European Decisionmaking

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  • Glenda G. Rosenthal

    (Oxford University, the College of Europe and Columbia University)

  • Donald J. Puchala

    (Columbia University and Director of Columbia's Institute on Western Europe)

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Decision formation in the Community has reflected an adaptability responding to different times and circumstances. The process of decisionmaking has grown in capacity, complexity and sophistication. It evolves slowly, however, to allow the diversity of its component parts to adjust and adapt. The actual EC decisional performance record indicates both the expansion of cooperative initiatives and the long range increase in joint action. The overall consensus formation capacity appears not to lead to political federation but has produced numerous noteworthy and viable means to collective programs. Some limited definitions of "European interests" have emerged in the summitry, ministerial and Commission decisions of the seventies, which illustrate the evolution of a flexible and viable decisionmaking structure as the Community faces a more demanding set of problems.

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  • Glenda G. Rosenthal & Donald J. Puchala, 1978. "Decisional Systems, Adaptiveness, and European Decisionmaking," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 440(1), pages 54-65, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:440:y:1978:i:1:p:54-65
    DOI: 10.1177/000271627844000107
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