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 …

Political scientists have long classified systems of government as parliamentary or
presidential, two-party or multiparty, and so on. But such distinctions often fail to provide …

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 …

How is contestation on European integration structured among national political parties? Are
issues arising from European integration assimilated into existing dimensions of domestic …

The definitive textbook on EU politics and governance, now in its 8th edition, has been
thoroughly updated to take into account the ongoing developments and evolution of the EU …

The complexity and diversity of European interest politics is exemplified by the multitude of
channels and targets that private actors use to lobby in the EU multi-level system. The aim of …

With the European Parliament comprising politicians from many different countries, cultures,
languages, national parties and institutional backgrounds, one might expect politics in the …

The aim of this article is to test empirically a theory of access that investigates the logic
behind the apparent ad hoc lobbying behavior of business interests in the European Union …

This article revisits the age-old debate about elite—mass linkages in the European Union
(EU) by examining the way in which political contexts shape individual differentiation in …

After six sets of European Parliament elections, do voters primarily use these elections to
punish their national governments or to express their views on European issues? We …