This paper presents a literature review of all quantitative (statistical) studies of compliance
with EU law. The paper introduces and makes use of a new online database http://www. eif …

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 …

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 …

Why Noncompliance traces the history of noncompliance within the European Union (EU),
focusing on which states continuously do or do not follow EU Law, why, and how that affects …

This article assesses the role of administrative capacity in explaining the performance of
eight Central and Eastern European countries in managing Cohesion policy over the 2004 …

Information supply is an important instrument through which interest groups can exert
influence on political decisions. However, information supply to decision-makers varies …

Transposition performance differs significantly across countries and policy sectors in the EU.
In this article we analyse the transposition efforts of all 27 member states with regard to four …

This study examines the relationship between the complexity of EU directives and their
successful implementation at the national level. Moving beyond the state‐of‐the‐art, we …

This paper illuminates a critical stage of the implementation of European law: the
transposition of European Union (EU) directives. Directives must be transposed into national …

To describe and explain legislative politics in the European Union and to assess its
democratic quality we need to measure the political importance (salience) of legislative …