This article reviews and analyzes recent research on regional integration. The review is
structured along a political economy framework and proceeds in three steps. After analyzing …

Preferential trading arrangements (PTAs) play an increasingly prominent role in the global
political economy, two notable examples being the European Union and the North American …

The European Court of Justice is one of the most important actors in the process of
European integration. Political science still struggles to understand its significance, with …

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 …

The European Union is the world's most advanced international organization, presiding over
a level of legal and economic integration unmatched in global politics. To explain this …

This contribution introduces the concept of integration capacity and summarizes our
research on the European Union (EU)'s integration capacity in Eastern enlargement …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Durchgeführte Interviews : Institutionen, Organisationen und
Akteure Kommission der Europäischen Union: Generalsekretariat (1 Interview) GD III …

EC directives must be transposed into the national legal order of the member states within a
specified deadline. Although member states are obliged to notify their transposition …

International organizations (IOs) experience significant variation in their decision-making
performance, or the extent to which they produce policy output. While some IOs are efficient …

The manner in which time is institutionalized is critical to how a political system works.
Terms, time budgets and time horizons of collective and individual political actors; rights …