The involvement of civil society in EU governance is widely interpreted as a right step in the direction of participatory democracy. Civil society associations are expected to communicate the concerns of citizens to Brussels, to engage in public deliberation with EU decision makers and...

Policy action is driven, shaped and regulated by the ways in which cognitive frames and interests shape and define issues and analyses - and the involvement of particular authorities, experts, problem-definitions and solutions. To understand these processes is particularly important in the realm...

Auf dem Hintergrund ideengeschichtlicher Überlegungen zum Verhältnis von Markt und Staat wird nach den Ursachen der beständigen Kooperationsprobleme gefragt, mit denen es die Europäische Union zu tun hat, wenn für alle Mitgliedstaaten verbindliche Entscheidungen getroffen werden sollen. Die...

The working paper examines the decision-making process of what has most likely been the most contentious European environmental policy-item in 2009: the regulation 443/2009 setting carbon dioxide emission performance standards for new passenger cars. In contrast to the empirical trend of rather...