The study of political institutions is among the founding pillars of political science. With the
rise of the'new institutionalism', the study of institutions has returned to its place in the sun …

Following on the sustained success of the acclaimed European Union Series, which
essentially publishes research-based textbooks, Palgrave Studies in European Union …

Why do MPs devote attention to some issues while ignoring others? The question of the
issue content of parliamentary activities has been neglected in previous research. The …

Setting a new benchmark for studies of technocracy, this book shows that a solution to the
challenge of populism will depend as much on a technocratic retreat as democratic …

The past 15 years have seen declining public support for European integration, and
widespread suggestions that a legitimacy crisis faces the European Union (EU). Many in the …

Parliamentarians differ widely in the degree to which they devote attention to their
geographical constituency. An analysis of parliamentary questions offers a precious …

Career Behaviour and the European Parliament seeks to answer the question of how a
political institution, such as the European Parliament, can impact the career ambitions and …

The neo-institutional approach focuses on the political consequences of institutions and, in
our case, how institutional constraints and norms influence the behaviour of legislators and …

Various adsorption structures of acrolein (propenal), crotonaldehyde (2-butenal), and prenal
(3-methyl-2-butenal) on Pt (111) are compared by means of first-principle density functional …

Vergleichende Analysen gewinnen innerhalb der Politikwissenschaft zunehmend an
Bedeutung. Nicht nur die zahlreichen Studien über die europäische Gemeinschaft, sondern …