This book offers a new approach for the future of democracy by advocating giving citizens
the power to deliberate and to decide how to govern themselves. Innovatively building on …

Business lobbying is an ever present reality in European Union (EU) politics. With their
significant economic and informational resources, business interests are able to exert …

How to assess the agency of administrative bodies in systems of complex interdependence?
The article develops a concept of multilevel reasoning that is constituted by two attitudes …

Preface e EU has gradually strengthened the democratic aspect of its policymaking through
a number of reforms. One important change came with the Lisbon treaty (entered into force …

Purpose This paper seeks to provide a multi-theoretical explanation of the living practice of a
public entity found in Uganda, an African developing country, which successfully enhanced …

The Europeanization of economic and financial governance poses a legitimacy question for
the European Parliament (EP). Drawing from theories on resource-exchange and …

When the Norwegian Parliament opened the southeastern Barents Sea for petroleum
activity in 2013, it did so based on an impact assessment report prepared by the Ministry of …

This article analyses the interactions between the members of the Polish parliament with the
European commissioners in the context of the European Semester, the annual cycle of …

Business invests significant resources to mobilize, engage with, and influence policymakers.
The phenomenon is researched extensively but placed under different banners across …

Wie wollen Menschen zusammenleben? Wie würden sie sich regieren, wenn sie selbst
darüber entscheiden könnten? Wie würden Gemeinschaften (Communitys) ihre politischen …