Cross, James, Dr.

James is a post doctoral researcher in the EUP research group since September 2011. His current research considers decision-making processes and negotiator agency in legislative negotiations in the EU. It examines member state interactions within the Council of Ministers during the legislative process, and examines how the Council interacts with other legislative bodies over the course of negotiations to reach decisions at the EU level. The research seeks to account for the influence that the institutional environment has on the decision-making process, by detailing how negotiators respond to different institutional contexts in which legislation is discussed.

James is currently spending the 2012/2013 academic year as a Max Weber fellow at the European University Institute in Florence.

As a Ph.D. candidate at Trinity College Dublin, under the supervision of Dr. Robert Thomson, he completed research that examines the legislative decision-making process at the Coreper and Working Group levels of negotiation within the Council of Ministers. In particular, it focused on the manner in which member states exert their influence over the legislative process, through interventions made over the course of negotiations, and explored various theory-based explanations of member state behaviour and legislative decision making.

Publications

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

• Cross, J. P. (2013, forthcoming). "Everyone's a winner (almost): Bargaining success in the Council of ministers of the European Union", European Union Politics .
• Cross, J. P. (2013, forthcoming). "Striking a pose: transparency and position taking in the Council of the European Union.", European Journal of Political Research .
• Cross, James (2012). “Interventions and Negotiation in the Council of Ministers of the European Union”, European Union Politics 13(1): 47-69. » access.
• Robert Thomson, Javier Arregui, Dirk Leuffen, Rory Costello, James
  Cross, Robin Hertz & Thomas Jensen (2012): "A new dataset on decision-making in the
  European Union before and after the 2004 and 2007 enlargements (DEUII)", Journal of
  European Public Policy 19(4), 604-622. » access.