Abstract This Living Review presents an overview of the research on European identity in
the context of EU governance by focusing on central debates in the political science …

The Institutions of the European Union is the key text for anyone wishing to understand the
functions, powers, and composition of the EU's institutions. Written and edited by a team of …

France and Germany have played a pivotal role in the history and politics of European
integration. Yet, paradoxically, a study that systematically investigates the interrelated reality …

The Euro crisis has led to an unprecedented Europeanization and politicization of public
spheres across the continent. In this volume, leading scholars make two claims. First, they …

Why have the national governments of EU member states successively endowed the
European Parliament with supervisory, budgetary, and legislative powers over the past fifty …

The EU as the most developed international organization, provides a laboratory for
observing the development of democratic structures outside its member-states. The …

This article presents a discourse approach to the study of legitimacy of governance beyond
the democratic state. It starts from the empirical question of how international organizations …

The structural components of a state are regularly conflated with a state's national identity. In
reality, however, the assumption that the boundaries of a state and its national identity are …

The debate on the European Union's democratic deficit usually operates within a national‐
democratic framework of analysis. This article argues for a change in methodology. It follows …

This book is based on research conducted within the framework of the Economic and Social
Research Council project 'Elites and Institutions in Regional and Local Governance in …