This volume examines the interrelationship between democratic legitimacy at the European
level and the ongoing Eurozone crisis that began in 2010. Europe's crisis of legitimacy …

Previous studies have applied theories of European integration to interpret crisis-led
policymaking processes and integration outcomes in the EU. However, there has been little …

The EU has become increasingly politicized not only at the bottom, due to polarized
debates, divided electorates, declining mainstream parties, and rising Euroskeptic populism; …

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 …

The collection of articles in this special issue provides a comprehensive analysis of
European Union decision-making during the Eurozone crisis. We investigate national …

This paper argues that, on the development of European Union (EU)/Eurozone fiscal
capacity German governments have consistently engaged in foot-dragging. Few German …

The negotiations on the reforms of the Economic and Monetary Union were highly
conflictual. This article analyses the dimensions of conflict that structured these negotiations …

Over the past decade, the European Union (EU) has faced a number of severe crises
threatening its core policy regimes and the future of its polity. Potentially existential crises …

In lieu of a conclusion to the Special Issue, this article discusses the future of Europe as one
of differentiated integration. It argues that this future takes the form of member-states' …

This paper introduces the updated version of our dataset, which is the third iteration of the
Decision-making in the European Union (DEU-III) dataset. We outline the DEU project …