Bulletin n. 3/2011
February 2012
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Mangenot Michel
    La présidence du Conseil : sociologie d’une institution de l’Union européenne
    in Politique européenne , n. 35, 3, 2011 ,  2011 ,  7-28
    While the Council has long been considered as a simple interstate body within the European political system, its Presidency has been studied either in terms of « responsibility without power » or as an opportunity for pursuing national interests, an opposition that has proven rather ineffective. Under the thesis of the Europeanization of the Presidency, this introductory paper analyses the function as an institution as such, even though formally it does not have that status. Progressively institutionalised since its modest inception in 1952, it has since the 1980s acted as a system of government in its own right, which raises questions about the incarnation, rotation, delegation and temporality of power. Lastly, this introduction presents the papers that make up this thematic issue, which develop a new historical and political sociology of the Presidential office, placed in the space of the inter-institutional relations and competitions between European institutions, and no longer only between Brussels and the capitals.
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