The Council is too often depicted as the battleground for intermittent clashes between
national ministers. Based upon case studies of legislation produced in five 'First …

While role behaviour and conflict dimensions in the European Parliament and the Council of
the European Union have been fairly well documented, studies on the internal functioning of …

Over the past five decades the European Parliament (EP) has moved from being a largely
consultative assembly to being a genuine co-legislature. The growth in the EP's powers was …

Officials within parliaments have received marginal scholarly attention. This also holds for
the European Parliament (EP) which contains a considerable administration. This study …

Abstract While the European Commission, the Council of Ministers, and the European
Parliament are formally responsible for policy-making in the United States, a much larger …

The European Council and Council of the European Union (ECC) constitute the executive–
legislative core of EU politics. By design, these institutional arenas represent national …

The European integration process depends on collective decisions being reached that bind
the member states. These decisions emerge mainly from the Council of Ministers, in which …

Over the last four decades, the European Commission has come to fascinate a range of
politicians, journalists and social scientists. From the point of view of national actors and the …

The Council and the European Council are important (some would argue the most
important) and powerful actors in the European Union (EU) today. Although the similarity in …

In conjunction with the gradual empowerment of the European Parliament, interest in its
internal politics and in particular its committee system has increased considerably. While …