This paper investigates a widespread yet understudied trend in EU politics: the de facto shift of legislative decision … decision-making is likely to occur. Competing and equifinal expectations are drawn from rational choice and sociological …, based on sociological institutionalism, we argue that informal decision-making results from the emulation of tested decision …

Extensive scholarly attention is devoted to citizens' preferences for alternative models of political decision … void in the literature, our article analyzes the determinants of preferences for citizens as decision-makers. It uses …

This paper examines the effect of local political decision-making institutions (i.e., direct democracy vs …. These findings demonstrate the importance of preferences as a channel through which political decision-making institutions …