Abstract For decades the European Commission's possible legislative influence has
interested scholars of EU studies, yet few empirical studies on the determinants of the …

Why are some conflicts managed better than others? Social scientists have used various
disciplinary lenses to answer this question but until now, public administration has not been …

Abstract How does the European Commission make its own policies? Research on EU
policy-making has generated many indirect, informed answers to this question. However, a …

Research Highlights and Abstract The role of the European Union (EU) in services
liberalisation—and the impact thereof on the provision of services of general interest—has …

After the introduction of the Treaty framework and Commission decision-making as two
important levels of analysis, this chapter now turns to the first case study. It deals with a …

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the
preceding chapters of this book. It provides the underlying ambition: to go beyond today's …