This paper applies a principal-agent model of delegation, agency and agenda setting to the 1996 intergovernmental conference and the Treaty of Amsterdam, in order to understand both the delegation of powers to supranational organizations in the new Treaty, and the efforts of such organizations...

Abstract: The European Union, like many other international organizations and governments, committed itself during the 1990s to the mainstreaming of gender issues across all policy areas at all stages in the policy process. Nonetheless, more than a decade after the Union’s initial commitment,...