The paper analyses how politics and adjudication answer similar questions in the context of policy making. It contrasts how societal problems are selected, defined, solved and legitimised by both disciplines. We raise these questions with regard to the liberalization of the European electricity...

Die Analyse untersucht die wesentlichen Ziele und Instrumente der Europäischen Beschäftigungsstrategie (oder Offenen Methode der Koordinierung/Beschäftigung) und deren Auswirkungen auf Politikergebnisse und politisch-strukturelle Aspekte der Beteiligung von unterschiedlichen Akteuren. Die...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to assess the plausibility of four different mid-term paths of development of the European Union (EU): first, a political union or a European state; second, a differentiated and flexible integration of the polity; third, a covert and deepening integration of...

Observers of the European policy-making process are inevitably struck by the contrast between cumbersome decision-making processes on the one hand and simultaneous swift policy developments on the other. Many policies seem to be stuck for long periods in the Council, while at the same time...