Costello, Rory; Thomson, Robert - In: European Union Politics 11 (2010) 2, pp. 219-240
and tests expectations about the conditions under which rapporteurs influence the EP's opinions and also about what … evidence shows that rapporteurs influence the EP's opinions when legislative proposals are subject to early agreements under … the co-decision procedure and when the consultation procedure applies. Rapporteurs' influence is motivated primarily by …