caa a22 4500 475840240 CHVBK 20180406123859.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1005125807405 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1005125807405 Aroney Nicholas TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland, 4072, Queensland, Australia aut Mueller on European Federation: A Reply from the Perspective of Australian Federalism [Elektronische Daten] [Nicholas Aroney] Dennis Mueller has recently made a significant contribution tounderstanding issues of federalism and confederalism in theEuropean Union - from a particular public choice point of view. Hefurnishes an important and provocative discussion of therelationship between the decision-making rules embodied in aconstitutional convention (or other means of drafting a form ofunion for constituent states) and the decision-making rules whichwill be contained in the constitution which is the outcome of thatconvention. However, Mueller's veiled preference for a certainideal form of federalism for Europe tends to reduce the parametersof his discussion, and gives his article an unrealistic and narrowfocus, despite its ambitious scope. The present article exploressome of the latent complexities in the public choice analysis anddesign of European integration, particularly by drawing on thewider experience of working federations and theory of federalism,using the unique and synthesizing Australian experience as a pointof departure. It argues that Mueller's analysis is biased towardsthe reduction of decision-making costs of European governance, andthus undervalues the external costs that may be imposed throughexcessive central government. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers 105/3-4(2000-12-01), 255-272 0048-5829 105:3-4<255 2000 105 11127 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005125807405 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005125807405 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Aroney Nicholas TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland, 4072, Queensland, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers 105/3-4(2000-12-01), 255-272 0048-5829 105:3-4<255 2000 105 11127 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer