Preference heterogeneity in the EU Council of Ministers

visualization
data
teaching
Assessing the space for intergovernmental agreement in the EU over time
Author

Christian Rauh

Published

August 11, 2019


For my teaching on spatial / institutionalist analysis of EU decision-making, I followed the leads by Holger Döring (2013) and plotted the aggregated positions of EU member state governments in the Council on two key dimensions of partisan conflict (extracted from the Comparative Manifesto Database).



Static perspective



Distributions of positions over time



Gridlock/agreement intervals by decision-rule over time