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This paper shows that the main pattern of European democratisation has unfolded along the lines of an EU organised as a multilevel system of representative parliamentary government and not as a system of deliberative governance as the transnationalists propound. But the multilevel EU has...
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Bilateral diplomacy is typically portrayed as under threat by European integration, which has forged direct links between sectoral ministries, introduced an all-embracing policy arena in Brussels and, arguably, rendered traditional embassy representation irrelevant. This paper questions whether...
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institutions could be conceptualized, to what degree institutions have independent and endurable implications, the kinds of … 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 …
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bureaucratization and de-bureaucratization is offered. Institutions, agency, and macro forces all matter, but there is no agreement …
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Who provides the European Union with information? Are these sources of information biased? Who are excluded and who are included? What can the informational bias tell us about decision making in the European Union? The paper examines patterns of participation in the large and organized expert...
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This conceptual paper provides a working definition of politicisation of European integration, based on a literature review. Politicisation has often been used by political scientists interested in European integration. We observe that research using the concept is rarely interested in the...
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The unequal access of interest organizations to the EU institutions is often associated with biased European politics … face of EU regulation. Else, the interaction patterns vary along the EU institutions and their levels of decision …
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redistributed, and serious conflicts along a single axis are less likely to develop. If EU institutions really are that important …
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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 …
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Constructivist approaches to the study of Europe are trendy. Deliberation, discourses, norms, persuasion, socialization, identity, arguing – such concepts and terms are now frequently invoked in debates over the past and future of the European project. As I argue in this essay, however,...
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