Social movements have an elusive power but one that is altogether real. From the French
and American revolutions to the Arab Spring, and to ethnic and terrorist movements of today …

Revolutions, social movements, religious and ethnic conflict, nationalism and civil rights, and
transnational movements: these forms of contentious politics combine in Charles Tilly's and …

For decades, European studies have been mostly concerned with explaining European
integration and Europeanization processes themselves. Debates between …

Democracy in Europe is about the impact of European integration on national democracies.
It argues that the oft-cited democratic deficit is indeed a problem, but not so much at the level …

How can we account for the global diffusion of remarkably similar policy innovations across
widely differing nation-states? In an era characterized by heightened globalization and …

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The European Commission is at the center of the European Union's political system. Within
its five-year terms each Commission proposes up to 2000 binding legal acts and therefore …

This essay takes stock of the literature on how European Union policies are being put into
practice by the member states. It first provides an overview of the historical evolution of the …

Theorizing Feminist Policy avoids the usual clash between feminist analysis and non-
feminist social science in mapping out the new field of feminist comparative policy. Instead, it …

This book reveals how the institutional structures of different countries have been changed
in different ways by membership in the European Union. In particular, she shows how …