New modes of governance based on voluntary performance standards, rather than
compulsory regulation, have gained salience in the European Union (EU). Can these new …

The British State is currently being restructured through a process of constitutional and
institutional reform. This process contributes to other changes that are creating an …

La Unión Europea es un sistema de gobernanza muy particular: dispone de la autoridad
necesaria para realizar asignaciones imperativas a la sociedad bajo forma de políticas …

The federal system of intergovernmental relationships in Germany was greatly affected in
the 1990s by the increased importance of transnational rationales and by strong orientations …

This paper analyses proposals for new multi-level governance of Swedish water resources
to implement the EU Water Framework Directive. The question is, do they satisfy the criteria …

This article deals with the European 'legitimacy crisis' from a neglected perspective, looking
at 'Europe'not primarily as a set of formal (or formalisable) institutions, but rather as an …

At first glance, what the state accomplishes is extraordinary: it regulates the labour market,
steers the economy, fights crime, provides education, regulates traffic, gives a framework to …

This article is a critical exploration of the issues raised by the attempt to integrate aims and
concerns derived from one European Union (EU) policy domain into another. It does this via …

This paper re-examines some of the assumptions of the Europeanization literature by
suggesting that it might be possible for domestic political events to have a direct influence on …

This paper focuses on the Europeanisation of Slovenia's regional policy and politics, and
seeks to examine whether the European Union (hereinafter: the EU) regional development …