’s explicit endorsement in cases of high issue salience. Polling data from Britain and Germany show that the salience of European … issues is clearly higher in Britain than in Germany. We thus conclude that British governments face tougher domestic … countries’ different approaches to the integration process: Germany as a role model of a pro-integrationist member state and, in …

possible to establish causal relationships? For the case of Germany the impact of coordinated European policies on industrial …

in Britain and Germany to trace the conditions for adaptation in the context of different administrative structures and …

Germany's presidency of the European Council in the first half of 1999 has focused the attention of schlolars on … Germany's attitude towards the EU. Germany's European policy has been guided from the beginning by a pro-European vision of … propositions: (1) the advocates of a European vision have vanished in Germany, and the broad coalition in society towards Europe is …

. The three approaches considered here are, respectively: first, a "cultural" theory, which understands identities as being … based on ethno-cultural factors generated through a long-term (historical) process; second, an "instrumental" theory, which …" theory, which understands identities as being based on agreement over rules for peaceful political co-existence. Our …

'compound' polities the 'coordinative' discourse among policy actors. This is demonstrated with examples from Germany, France …

implementation of the Seveso II and Safety Data Sheets Directives in the Netherlands, Germany, the United Kingdom and Spain shows …