Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Acronyms Used in the Text -- 1 Introduction -- Prevailing Approaches -- Institutional Design -- Institutional Change -- Institutional Effects -- Institutional Selection and Procedural Politics -- Plan of the Book -- Conclusion -- 2 Theorizing Procedural Politics -- Conceptual Premises -- Institutions Matter -- Derived Institutional Preferences -- Strategic Interaction -- Summary -- Conditions: The Determinants of Procedural Politics -- Opportunity: Jurisdictional Ambiguity and the Availability of Alternatives -- Incentives: The Relative Desirability of Available Alternatives -- Summary -- The Dynamics of Procedural Politics -- Strategic Issue Definition -- Procedural Coalition Formation -- The Effects of Procedural Politics -- Policymaking Efficiency -- Policy Outcomes -- Institutional Change -- Conclusion -- 3 The European Union as a Procedural System -- "Institutions Matter": EU Legislative Procedures and Their Effects -- Constitutional and Legislative System -- Procedural Landscape -- Simple Procedures -- Complex Procedures -- Summary -- Procedural Preferences -- Auxiliary Assumptions -- Preference Rankings -- Summary -- Strategic Interaction: A Game of Procedural Politics -- A Simpli.ed Model of Procedural Politics -- Summary -- Conclusion -- Appendix 3.A: Analyzing EU Legislative Procedures -- Modeling Simple Procedures -- Complex Procedures -- Summary -- Appendix 3.B: An Incomplete Information Game of EU Procedural Choice -- Challenge Stage -- Decision Stage -- Proposal Stage -- 4 Patterns -- Procedural Politics Across Time, Actors, and Issues -- Variations over Time -- The Actors in Procedural Politics -- Variations by Issue Area -- Summary -- The Determinants of Procedural Politics.

Data and Research Design -- Estimation and Results -- Summary -- Procedural Political Effects -- Decision-Making Efficiency -- Institutional Change -- Summary -- Conclusion -- 5 Greening the Market? -- Legislative Procedures and EU Environmental Policy -- A Procedural History of EU Environmental Policy -- Jurisdictional Ambiguity -- Theory, Methods, and Case Selection -- Hypotheses -- Research Design and Case Selection -- Waste Management and Procedural Politics -- Titanium Dioxide -- Waste Framework Directive -- Waste Shipments Regulation -- Theoretical Assessment -- Conditions -- Means -- Effects -- Conclusion -- 6 Mad Cows and Englishmen -- Legislative Procedures and EU Agricultural Policy -- A Procedural History of EU Agricultural Policy -- Jurisdictional Ambiguity -- Theory, Methods, and Case Selection -- Hypotheses -- Research Design and Case Selection -- Agriculture, Human Health, and Procedural Politics -- General Trends in the Agricultural Sector -- Beef Hormones -- Beef Labeling -- Legislative History -- Theoretical Assessment -- Conditions -- Means -- Effects -- Conclusion -- 7 Conclusion -- Summary: Arguments and Evidence -- The Argument -- Design, Data, and Methods -- Findings -- Summary -- Implications -- Everyday Politics: Rational Institutionalism -- Grand Bargaining: Liberal Intergovernmentalism -- Historical Institutionalism and the Search for Synthesis -- Rule Governance and System Transformation -- Avenues for Future Research -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.