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Structure, Capacity or Power? Explaining Salience in EU Decision‐Making
Author(s) -
Leuffen Dirk,
Malang Thomas,
Wörle Sebastian
Publication year - 2014
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/jcms.12100
Subject(s) - salience (neuroscience) , explanatory power , psychology , predictive power , social psychology , econometrics , economics , cognitive psychology , epistemology , philosophy
Salience as the intensity of interest is a key explanatory factor of E uropean U nion decision‐making. In this article, the ability of three explanatory models to explain the realized values of M ember S tates’ salience is hypothesized and tested. On the basis of the DEU II data, the analysis shows that a mixture of national interest group heterogeneity and membership length has the highest predictive power. The results support the liberal intergovernmentalist claim that domestic interests determine E uropean decision‐making.