Title:Challenging the Commission's right of initiative? Conditions for institutional change and stability
Author(s):RASMUSSEN, AnneDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article examines the conditions under which informal institutional change between EU Treaties becomes formalised in subsequent Treaties. Recent developments in institutional theory show how formal rule changes often ...
Title:Challenging the Commission’s Right of Initiative? Conditions for institutional change and stability
Author(s):RASMUSSEN, AnneDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article examines the conditions under which informal institutional change between EU Treaties becomes formalised in subsequent Treaties. Recent developments in institutional theory show how formal rule changes often ...
Title:Change in European Societies since the 1970s
Author(s):CROUCH, ColinDate:2008-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Sociology lags considerably behind political science in its comparative research on European societies, but enough material now exists to enable us to talk broadly about the major changes that have taken place since the ...
Title:Changes from below : intergovernmental politics in democratizing federations
Author(s):FERREIRA DO VALE, HélderDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Who are more powerful in a federation, national or subnational politicians? As the cases of democratic Brazil, Spain and South Africa show, there is no straightforward answer to this question. As the power of politicians ...
Title:Changing Choices, Changing Elections: A study of volatility and vote-switching in six Western European countries
Author(s):GOMEZ MARTINEZ, RaulDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:It is often argued that elections in established Western European democracies have become more unstable during recent decades. Much scholarly work has thus focused on the study of changes in election results in order to ...
Title:Changing Public Policy: The role of the regions. Education and environmental policy in Belgium
Author(s):DE RYNCK, StefaanDate:2002Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Regional government has become a fashionable topic of analysis, but the impact of regional autonomy on public policy has so far received little attention. In this book, Stefaan De Rynck examines how the creation of regional ...
Title:Changing rules of delegation : a contest for power in comitology
Author(s):HERITIER, Adrienne; MOURY, Catherine; BISCHOFF, Carina S.; BERGSTRÖM, Carl-FredrikDate:2013Type of Publication:BookAbstract:With each legislative issue, legislators have to decide whether to delegate decision-making to the executive and/or to expert bodies in order to flesh out the details of this legislation, or, alternatively, to spell out ...