Europe's woes mark a new chapter in the longstanding theory/history nexus in European studies. The euro crisis has brought integration theory back onto the scholarly agenda and highlighted the value of neo-functionalism – and more precisely its key ‘spillover' mechanism – as a framework...

The 2007 mainstreaming of URBAN raised important questions about the sustainability of its regeneration approach under the new regulatory regime, and particularly about the policy legacy left by this Community Initiative in its participating cities. Taking advantage of the recent conclusion of...

This article extends United States-European Union (EU) comparative research to the area of grants-in-aid by comparing the evolution of federally funded ‘‘city welfare'' in the two political systems in light of an original institutionalist theory. I show that while the United States and the...