To what extent do representational gaps between parties and voters destabilise party
systems and create electoral opportunities for anti-establishment parties on the left and …

Abstract The Next Generation EU (NGEU) and the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF)
encompassed the European Semester. To understand how and why this happened we …

Historically, crises have been lauded for fostering European Union (EU) integration.
Conversely, it has recently been predicted that the current 'polycrisis' will precipitate the EU's …

Less researched than the second-order character of elections to the European Parliament
(EP) is the 'Europeanness' of European elections and its implications for voter participation …

The collective concerns of this Special Issue are twofold. First, it advances possible
explanations of how the Brexit issue arose. Why was Britain's membership of the EU thought …

This study analyses the European Commission's strategies to counteract Member States'
non‐compliance with EU law between 1989 and 2018. Based on a theoretical framework …

This article examines whether the spatial segregation of immigrant groups conditions the
relationship between the share of migrants and attitudes towards EU integration. Do varying …

Since direct elections to the European Parliament began in 1979, variations in voting
behavior in European Parliament elections from national elections have raised interesting …

This introduction to the special issue recalls the alarm raised in EU capitals and Brussels
after the UK's in-out referendum delivered a Leave vote in June 2016. The fear was of a …

Since the 2000s, the reference to 'values' has become a key topic in the legitimation and
politicization of the European Union (EU). This article studies to which extent and how …