Current approaches to the understanding of institutional change in the European Union have difficulty in understanding how intergovernmental bargaining and day-to-day institutional change interact. This article develops a theoretical framework to understand this interaction, and applies it to...

Intro -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Theoretical Frame of Reference and Analytical Approach -- 1.1 Policy Network Analysis as Frame of Reference -- 1.2 Sets of Variables in the National/European Context and in International Comparison -- 1.3 Procedure -- 2 Regulatory...