Publications

Books

Majority Decisions: Principles and Practices.

co-edited with Jon Elster. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2014.

La prise de décision au Conseil de l'Union européenne. Pratiques du vote et du consensus. Préface de Bernard Manin.

Paris: Dalloz. 2011.

Edited journal issues

Nouvelles approches de la décision collective: compromis, consensus, vote.

co-edited with Philippe Urfalino. Négociations. 2017/1, n°27.

Articles

'Analysing the trade-off between transparency and efficiency in the Council of the European Union'.

(with Maarten Hillebrandt), Journal of European Public Policy, online version published on February 11, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2019.1578814

'La prise de décision peut-elle être informelle?'.

Négociations, 2017/1, n°27.

'Integration Without Transparency? Reliance on the Space to Think in the European Council and Council' (with Maarten Hillebrandt).

Journal of European Integration. 38/5. 2016. 527-540.

'Majority Rule'.

Philosophy Compass, volume 9, issue 10, October 2014, 681-688.

'Single Representative, Single Voice: Magical Thinking and Representation of the EU on the World Stage'.

Global Policy, October 2014, 68-75.

'The Surprising Effects of Transparency on the EU Legislative Process'.

Cuadernos Europeos de Deusto, 51, 2014, 45-70.

'Le Grand Retour des États',.

in "La Gouvernance européenne revisitée", ed. by Yves Mény and Sabine Saurugger, Pouvoirs, 149, Paris, Le Seuil, April 2014.

'Transparency as Organized Hypocrisy? The Case of the EU Legislative Process',

Studies in Public Policy, 507, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 2014.

'The Silence of Ministers. Consensus and Blame-Avoidance in the Council of the European Union'.

Journal of Common Market Studies, 51:6, November 2013, 1091-1107.

'Decision rules, social norms and the expression of disagreement: the case of qualified majority voting in the Council of the European Union'.

Social Science Information, 49:1, March 2010, 83-97.

Chapters

'La Prise de Décision dans l'Union'.

in Traité d'Études Européennes, edited by Olivier Costa et Frédéric Mérand, Bruxelles: Larcier, forthcoming 2016.

'How Publicity Creates Opacity: What Happens When EU Ministers Vote Publicly'.

in Public and Secret Voting, edited by Jon Elster, Cambridge University Press, 2015.

'Les États membres et l'Union européenne'..

in L'Union européenne, edited by Renaud Dehousse. Paris: La Documentation française. 2015.

'Two effects of a high threshold of qualified majority'.

in Majority Decisions, co-edited with Jon Elster. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2014.

'Introduction' .

to Majority Decisions, op. cit.

Online articles

'The opacity of consensus. Decision making at the Council of the European Union'.

Books and Ideas, 24 November 2011. Translation from French of 'L'opacité du consensus. La prise de décision au Conseil de l'Union européenne', La Vie des Idées, Paris, 25 June 2009.

Working papers

'A Single Representative of the EU on the International Stage: Vertreter or Verräter?'

Dahrendorf Symposium Paper Series

'Is there a tension between transparency and efficiency in decisions? The case of the Council of the EU'.

Max Weber Working-Paper, 2011, 33.

Research and policy papers

Qualified Majority Voting from the Single European Act to present day: an unexpected permanence .

Research Report for Notre Europe, Paris, 2011.

"Le Conseil des ministres, un rouage essentiel et mal connu".

La Revue Socialiste, Paris, 1er trimestre 2013.

Newspaper articles

"Warum ein EU-Präsident nur der EU-Sündenbock wäre".

Focus Online.

Other

'Small States, Big Credit?'.

Interview of David Stasavage for his book States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities, Princeton University Press, 2011.
Books and Ideas, 29 March 2012.
In collaboration with Will Slauter.

'Europe: un autre traité pour rien?'..

Interview of Renaud Dehousse for La Vie des Idées, 10 April 2012.

'Comment s’arrêtent les décisions collectives?'..

Interview of Philippe Urfalino for La Vie des Idées, 29 January 2010

Book reviews

Management and Culture in an Enlarged European Commission: From Diversity to Unity? by Carolyn Ban.

Reviews and Critical Commentary, Council for European Studies, November 2013.

'Europe at the highest level'.

Review of Le Passage à l'Europe. Histoire d'un commencement by Luuk van Middelaar, Paris, Gallimard, 2012. Published on Books and Ideas. September 2012.

'Elster. Passions, raisons et délibération' by Benoît Dubreuil and Christian Nadeau, Paris, Michalon, 2011.

Quaderni, 78, Printemps 2012, 129-131.

'Laws of fear' by C.S. Sunstein.

Raisons politiques, 22, 2006/2, 225-230 (with A. Le Goff)

'De la guerre et du terrorisme' by Michael Walzer.

Raisons politiques, 19, 2005/3, 237-242 (with A. Le Goff)

Blog entries

The trade-off between transparency and efficiency in EU decision making is not as straightforward as some claim.

(with Maarten Hillebrandt), EUROPP, European Politics and Policy, London School of Economics, 4 March 2019.

Decisions made by consensus in the Council of the European Union are often far more contentious than the voting record would suggest.

EUROPP, European Politics and Policy, London School of Economics, 8 January 2014.