@article{ref1,
title="Bargaining power in the European Council",
journal="Journal of common market studies",
year="2008",
author="Tallberg, Jonas",
volume="46",
number="3",
pages="685-708",
abstract="What grants influence in the European Council? Drawing on general theories of negotiation, this article isolates and illustrates three complementary sources of bargaining power in the European Council: state sources of power, institutional sources of power and individual sources of power. It reports the results of a unique series of elite interviews with European heads of state and government, foreign ministers and top-level civil servants. Elite testimonies suggest that the state dimension of power is the most fundamental, whereas the institutional and individual dimensions of power play a secondary role and mainly mediate the impact of structural power asymmetries.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0021-9886",
doi="10.1111/j.1468-5965.2008.00798.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5965.2008.00798.x"
}