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West European Politics @wepsocial.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

🇪🇺 What drives the European Commission's growing power? Fabio Franchino, @martami.bsky.social & @giovannipagano.bsky.social study 9000+ EU laws: Parliament's involvement is the strongest driver, more so when it's ideologically closer to the Commission than the Council is. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Description of the article "A supranational alliance: the empowerment of the European Commission (1958–2019)" by Fabio Franchino, Marta Migliorati and Giovanni Pagano, published online first in West European Politics. The first page shows the title, authors and abstract, with the main argument and findings highlighted.

Figure 1. Line chart of the Commission's mean executive discretion per year and the number of laws adopted, from 1958 to 2019. Apart from volatility in the early years, discretion follows a consistent upward trend, while the number of laws declines after the 1980s.

Figure 2. Plot of the average marginal effects of the explanatory factors on the Commission's executive discretion. Parliamentary involvement has the largest positive effect; Council majority voting, an ideologically allied Parliament, non-compliance and Council divisiveness also raise discretion, while agency drift between Council and Commission lowers it.

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