Random rebels? The contestation of ratification votes in the European Parliament
(2024) Politicologenetmaal (Annual Political Science Workshops of the Low Countries) — Location: Maastricht (13.June.2024)
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Bardou, Marine 
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- For most international agreements to be ratified, the European Parliament (EP) should give its consent through a vote in its plenary. While EP consent is very rarely denied, the level of contestation of these ratification votes varies. Contestation of these votes indicates disagreement with the international agreement negotiated by the Commission. But the factors triggering contestation remain unclear. This paper therefore seeks to identify the drivers of contestation in EP ratification votes. I consider the 228 agreements concluded by the EU since 2009 with a roll-call vote in the EP. Utilizing a negative binomial regression, I test the effect of previous EP involvement, of the institutional configuration, of EP policy priorities and of agreement salience. I differentiate between early EP involvement, i.e. EP involvement starting before the ratification stage, and late EP involvement, i.e. EP involvement present only during the ratification stage. Late EP involvement is not associated with more contestation, but early EP involvement is. Moreover, contestation is higher when agreements provide economic opportunities to EU actors and when agreements are salient within the EP.
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Bardou, M. (2024). Random rebels? The contestation of ratification votes in the European Parliament. Politicologenetmaal (Annual Political Science Workshops of the Low Countries), Maastricht. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/236318