Title:Contested competences in the European Union
Author(s):FARRELL, Henry; HERITIER, AdrienneDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this article, we set out an approach to European Union politics that seeks to explain its development using theories of institutional change. In contrast to dominant theories which assume that the Treaties, the governing ...
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:Evaluating the forces of interstitial institutional change
Author(s):FARRELL, Henry; HERITIER, AdrienneDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The articles in this volume provide evidence supporting the claim that organisational actors within the EU do engage in contestation over competences over a wide variety of legislative and policy-making procedures. Far ...
Title:Irish explanations
Author(s):KEATING, MichaelDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Books reviewed:
Preventing the Future: Why was Ireland so Poor for so Long?
Tom Garvin
(Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2004), xiv+278pp., ISBN: 0717137716
The Economy of Ireland: National and Sectoral Policy Issues
J. ...
Title:Rethinking political myth: the clash of civilizations as a self-fulfilling prophecy
Author(s):BOTTICI, Chiara; CHALLAND, BenoîtDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article argues for the need to recover the concept of political myth in order to understand the crucial phenomena of our epoch. By drawing on Blumenberg's philosophical reflections on myth, it proposes to understand ...