AGENDA SETTING, INFLUENCE, AND VOTING RULES: THE INFLUENCE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION AND STATUS QUO BIAS IN THE COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY OF THE EU

Abstract

We develop a two-stage political economy model that explicitly models the complexity of decision-making in the European Union on the Common Agricultural Policy, and we derive how the institutional design affects the outcome and the influence of the various agents involved, and the likelihood of political stalemate.Agricultural and Food Policy,