Preferences over jurisdictional architecture are the product of three irreducible logics:
efficiency, distribution and identity. This article substantiates the following claims:(a) …

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 does the ideological profile of a political party affect its support or opposition to
European integration? The authors investigate this question with a new expert data set on …

Are social movement organizations euro-sceptical, euro-pragmatic, or euro-opportunist? Or
do they accept the EU as a new level of governance to place pressure on? Do they provide …

This second edition of Doing Research in Political Science is a thoroughly revised and
updated version of the book that was originally published in 1999. In revising this edition we …

This article takes issue with conventional explanations of state preference formation on
European integration. It tests the hypothesis that Left-Right ideology is a better predictor than …

The remit of the series is broadly defined, both in terms of subject and academic discipline.
All topics of significance concerning the nature and operation of the European Union …

Recent research has tried to uncover the political space in which the Council of Ministers of
the European Union decides. Rather than the left-right conflict or a cleavage between …

Spatial characterizations of agents' preferences lie at the heart of many theories of political
competition. These give rise to explicitly dimensional interpretations. Parties define and …

This article reviews a central strand of the literature on legislative decision-making in the
European Union (EU): procedural spatial models. These models have gained increasing …