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Evaluating Presidencies of the Council of the EU: Revisiting Nice *
Author(s) -
SCHOUT ADRIAAN,
VANHOONACKER SOPHIE
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
jcms: journal of common market studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.54
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1468-5965
pISSN - 0021-9886
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5965.2006.00673.x
Subject(s) - presidency , negotiation , criticism , nice , contingency , political science , law and economics , public administration , accounting , positive economics , economics , law , epistemology , computer science , philosophy , politics , programming language
Judging presidencies is easy, evaluating them is not. Evaluations are rare and often superficial. This article provides a theoretical framework for such evaluations. Using contingency theory, it develops hypotheses about the demand for, and supply of, presidency roles. It offers a structured analysis by linking behaviour to the specificities of the actual negotiations. The framework is then applied to the performance of the French presidency during the IGC in 2000. The analysis shows, that apart from the complaints relating to some embarrassing failures, not all the criticism levelled at the French was justified.