The transformations brought about by changing patterns of representation, the role of the media in politics, and processes of Europeanization and globalization have challenged the political parties of the West-European Left - and Italy is no exception to this trend. At the policy level, the four...

The field of policy learning is characterised by a proliferation of concepts and lack of systematic findings. However, the literature has struggled to move beyond the seminal contributions made more than three decades ago however. We argue that different strands in the literature have failed to...

'Quality' features in all initiatives for better regulation launched by the OECD and the European Union. Yet policy-makers who have tried to import regulatory impact assessment (RIA) from its original Anglo-Saxon context to other European contexts have found it difficult to scratch below the...

In this paper, we contribute to the debate on research design and causal analysis in European integration studies by considering the sub-field of Europeanization. First, we examine the awareness of research design issues in the literature on Europeanization through a review of the debate on...

This Working Document examines the quality of impact assessments in the European Commission and the UK between 2005 and 2010. The findings suggest that impact assessment is not merely a perfunctory activity in the European Union and the UK. Quality has improved steadily over the years, arguably...

Is there something new in recent research on Europeanisation? Or should we go back to what we already know about political integration in Europe and avoid the term? This article reviews recent work in four steps: the identification of the specific domain of Europeanisation; the relationship...