One of the most remarkable democratic developments in Europe in recent decades has
been the empowerment of the only directly elected supranational assembly in the world: the …

Starting from the observation that the European Union now possesses many of the attributes
of modern political systems, Hix and Høyland take an innovative approach to analysing …

This broad-ranging text examines the political dynamic of the European Parliament (EP),
showing how the EP is a key component of the political system of the EU. It looks at how …

What explains when Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) defect from their EP party
group? While previous research has focused on the policy distance between an MEP's …

European Union legislative decision-making is increasingly shifted into informal secluded
arenas. Scholars have explained this trend and analysed its consequences for bargaining …

While for some scholars the Euro crisis dashed the dream of Social Europe, this thought-
provoking book proposes a more nuanced assessment, challenging the notion of austerity …

Almost all existing studies of conflict and coalitions inside the European Parliament (EP) rely
on the statistical analysis of voting behaviour. Yet who proposes the alternatives put to vote …

Votes in parliament offer one of the few sources of behavioral data to study members of
parliaments (MPs). As a consequence, an increasing number of studies rely on such data …

Research on dynamics within the European Parliament frequently draws on group‐based
explanations–such as parties and national affiliations–for the behaviour of its members …

We study the relationship of the European Parliament's (EP) standing committees and party
groups. According to recent studies, committees are the centre of EP policy-making, while …