European Community Decision Making

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and professor of political science at the University of Rochester.  He is also author of The War  Trap and co-author of War and Reason: A Confrontation Between Domestic and International Imperatives and Forecasting Political Events: The Future of Hong Kong, all published by Yale University Press.  Frans N. Stokman is professor of sociology at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

• Fresh perspectives on a Developing Institution, Roy Pierce. Part 1: The European Community, Decision Making, and Integration, Jan M.M. Van den Bos; The Policy Issues Analyzed, Jan M.M. Van den Bos. Part 2 The Models: Political Forecasting - An Expected Utility Method, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita; The Exchange of Voting Positions - An Object-Oriented Model of Policy Networks, Frans N. Stokman and Reinier Van Oosten. Part 3 Application of the Models: Policy Outcomes and Policy Interventions - An Expected Utility Analysis, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and A.F.K. Organski; The Exchange of Voting Positions in the EC Council, Frans N. Stokman and Jan M.M. Van den Bos; The Politics Surrounding the Creation of the EC Bank - The Last Stumbling Block to Integration, Jacek Kugler and John H.P. Williams. Part 4 Comparison and Evaluations of the Models: Models of Exchange and of Expected Utility Maximization - A Comparison of Accuracy, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Frans N. Stokman; Modelling the EC, A.F.K. Organski and Samuel Eldersveld.