Peter Nedergaard publishes article in Journal of Common Market Studies

Peter Nedergaard has published an article in “Journal of Common Market Studies”, the most recognized journal in the field of European Studies.

The article is titled: “
Blocking Minorities. Networks and Meaning in the Opposition Against the Proposal for a Directive on Temporary Work in the Council of Ministers of the European Union.”

Journal of Common Market Studies is also the most cited journal in its academic field (i
mpact factor:
0.718).

The article is a case study of clocking minority in the Council of Ministers of the European Union that blocked the adoption of the directive on temporary work from 2002 onwards.

The article can be found on the homepage: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/jcms/45/3

Users of the CBS Library also have access to the article. Finally, you can get the article by emailing to Peter Nedergaard on pne.cbp@cbs.dk

Abstract:

“
This article contains a case study of the behaviour of a blocking minority in the Council of Ministers. The article demonstrates that the behaviour of the Member States cannot be explained directly in this case by domestic circumstances and interests, as is often done, for example, in the liberal intergovernmentalist literature. Instead, the alternative explanations offered in this article are tight networks and their ability to create meaning in being part of the blocking minority through an attractive story-line. If generalised, this means that the influence of story-lines created by discourse-coalitions must be upgraded as explanations of the behaviour in the Council of Ministers, and that Member States providing the network with hegemony can critically strengthen an issue network. These factors have previously been overlooked in the literature on the Council of Ministers.”