Background Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) concepts, models and tools have been
used increasingly in health technology assessment (HTA), with several studies pointing out …

Why can some interest groups influence policy-making while others cannot? Even though
this question is central to the study of politics, we know little about the factors explaining …

The European Commission is at the center of the European Union's political system. Within
its five-year terms each Commission proposes up to 2000 binding legal acts and therefore …

In recent years, scholars have devoted increased attention to the agency of small states in
International Relations. However, the conventional wisdom remains that while not …

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 …

Why are some interest groups able to lobby political decisions successfully whereas others
are not? This article suggests that the issue context is an important source of variation …

Testing the reliability of experts should be a key element of expert interviews. Using the
Condorcet Jury Theorem, it is shown that expert reliability can provide an indication of the …

What grants influence in the European Council? Drawing on general theories of negotiation,
this article isolates and illustrates three complementary sources of bargaining power in the …

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 most recent EU-enlargements have considerably increased the number of small
member states. In the EU-27, 19 countries have fewer votes in the Council of Ministers than …