Machine generated contents note: Part I. Theory and Methods: 1. Introduction: European
integration and the challenge of politicisation Edgar Grande and Swen Hutter; 2. Exploring …

Starting from the observation that the European Union now possesses many of the attributes
of modern political systems, Hix and Høyland take an innovative approach to analysing …

How does the EU resolve controversy when making laws that affect citizens? How has the
EU been affected by the recent enlargements that brought its membership to a diverse group …

The EU faces a serious crisis of democratic legitimacy. Citizens believe that the EU is run by
distant and non-responsive political elites. The EU's perceived lack of responsiveness to …

Abstract Delegation in the European Union (EU) involves a series of principal‐agent
problems, and the various chains of delegation involve voters, parties, parliaments …

Nations often turn to international courts to help with overcoming collective-action problems
associated with international relations. However, these courts generally cannot enforce their …

The European Union (EU) is assumed to suffer from a democratic deficit. It is often posited
that in the EU there is only a weak and indirect connection between public preferences and …

International cooperation can fail even though governments have no distributional conflicts
or incentives to free-ride, face no informational or credibility problems, and even agree on …

ABSTRACT Negotiations in the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers are highly
secretive, so outsiders have limited knowledge of the factors that determine bargaining …

A decade ago parties were largely absent from research on and theories of EU politics. The
role of parties is now a central part of the research agenda, particularly in the area of EU …