political phenomena they impact, the mechanisms through which they do so, and the processes through which institutions emerge …-interested actors maximizing their expected utility. Second, a society-centered perspective that sees political institutions and … ago. Then, “The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political Life” invited a reappraisal of how political …

development towards bureaucratization, as argued by Weber, or de-bureaucratization, as argued by his critics. Several normative … bureaucratization and de-bureaucratization is offered. Institutions, agency, and macro forces all matter, but there is no agreement … Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 11, 2008, pp. 13-37 …

review. Politicisation has often been used by political scientists interested in European integration. We observe that …

The unequal access of interest organizations to the EU institutions is often associated with biased European politics … political exchange to explain the contact patterns. Ordinal regressions indicate that three dimensions shape these patterns … economic clout, the financial resources and the expertise of interest groups as well as their political mobilization when they …

One key indicator of profound change in a Westphalian state order might be the extent to which cleavages are cross … redistributed, and serious conflicts along a single axis are less likely to develop. If EU institutions really are that important …

concepts and/or insights from these theories can be profitably applied to social and political institutions. First, we … to push an analogy between genes (which are rules governing cell reproduction and behavior) and political institutions … exogenous process. Instead of seeing the process as one of fundamental stability (what political scientists and economists would …

– especially if constructivists overcome their internal divisions, and simultaneously view the EU less as a sui generis political …