Do Member States behave inconsistently along the EU policy life cycle? Existing research has extensively examined patterns of conduct in the Council and in comitology. However, the question of whether national governments' behaviours differ along both stages of EU policy-making is under-explored. This article examines whether and under what conditions voting outcomes along the Council–comitology cycle differ. Based on a dataset combining voting records in the Council and in comitology, the study tests hypotheses derived from delegation theory and demonstrates that legislative contestation, changing legislative preferences, and stringent delegation procedures increase inconsistency. Moreover, it demonstrates that inconsistency increases when there is contestation in the Council and changes in national governments' preferences between the two votes increase. Ultimately, inconsistency is associated with the reversal of Council contestation in comitology.

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揭示不一致：欧盟决策的理事会-Comitology 周期中的共识和争论

成员国在欧盟政策生命周期中的行为是否不一致？现有的研究已经广泛研究了委员会和comitology 的行为模式。然而，各国政府的行为在欧盟决策的两个阶段是否不同的问题尚未得到充分探索。本文研究了理事会-comitology 周期中的投票结果是否以及在什么条件下不同。该研究基于结合了理事会和委员会投票记录的数据集，检验了源自授权理论的假设，并证明立法争议、不断变化的立法偏好和严格的授权程序会增加不一致性。此外，它表明，当理事会出现争议和国家政府的变化时，不一致会增加。两票之间的偏好增加。最终，不一致与委员会在组合学中的争论的逆转有关。