The EU is a supranational governance organization which is quasi-federal in institutional structure and quasi-pluralist in policymaking processes. As such, it has had a significant impact on all member-states' institutional structures, whether federal or unitary, and their policymaking...

In response to the Eurozone's crisis of democratic legitimacy, EU institutional actors have sought to ameliorate the Eurozone's deteriorating 'output' policy performance and to respond to citizens' increasingly volatile political 'input' by reinterpreting the 'throughput' processes focused on...

Comparative political economists who use historical institutionalism have made great contributions in describing what happened in cases of political economic change in advanced industrialized democracies, but they have great difficulty explaining much of why this happened. This paper argues that...