OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of JCMS-Journal of Common Market Studies is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information	62
Minding the Gaps: Solidaristic Transfers and Burden‐Sharing in the European Union and Its Member States' Pandemic Response	60
Fiscal Rules in the European Union: Less Is More	58
Fighting for Europe: The EU's Democratic Pull Phenomenon in Ukraine, Poland and Belarus	48
‘You Know, This Conference Has No Legitimacy’: Eurosceptic Contestation of the Conference on the Future of Europe	43
Where Does Europe End? Christian Democracy and the Expansion of Europe^*	40
Is the Governance of Europe's Transnational Party System Contributing to EU Democracy?*	38
Euro Area: Towards a European Common Bond? – Empirical Evidence from the Sovereign Debt Markets	34
Resilience of the Silo Organizational Structure in the European Commission	33
The European Economic Area: Decision‐Shaping during the COVID‐19 Pandemic	32
The Ripple Effects of Compliance: Reconfiguring EU Policy Effectiveness in Transboundary Environmental Governance	30
The European Parliament and Gender Equality: An Analysis of Achievements Based on the Concept of Power	30
Turkey's Influence as a Third Country on the European Union: From Association to a Key Partner	28
Two and a Half Tales of Europe: How the European Commission Narrates Peoplehood in Migration and Citizenship Policy	28
Information or Accountability? A Research Agenda on European Commissioners in National Parliaments	28
Supranational Entrepreneurship Through the Administrative Backdoor: The Commission, the Green Deal and the CAP 2023–2027	27
EU Sport Diplomacy: An Idea Whose Time Has Nearly Come	27
All in this Together? Communities of Practice in UK–EU Cybersecurity Relations Post‐Brexit and Differentiated Re‐engagement	27
Issue Information	26
The New Pact on Migration: Embedded Illiberalism?	26
Brussels‐Based Think Tanks in Times of Crisis: Examining Think Tank Climate Publication and Networking Activities During Brexit	25
Equal Focus on Inequality? Approaches to Distributional Impact Assessment in the National Budget Process Across the EU	25
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The EU and Russia: The War that Changed Everything	25
Transregional Europe by William Outhwaite (Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020, ISBN: 978‐1‐78769‐494‐1); 152 pp., €90.46, hardcover.	25

Anti‐elitism in the European Radical Right in Comparative Perspective	24
Negative Integration Is What States Make of It? Tackling Labour Exploitation in the German Meat Sector	22
Reframing Civil–Military Relations in the EU: Insights From the Drone Strategy 2.0	22
Home Field Advantage? EU–ACP Economic Partnership Agreement Meeting Locations and Textual Tone	22
Beyond the Heaven–Hell Binary and the One‐Way Traffic Paradigm: The European Union, Africa and Contested Human Rights in the Negotiations of the Samoa Agreement	19
Firms and Trade Policy Lobbying in the European Union	19
Account‐Holding Intensity in the EU Accountability Landscape: A Comprehensive Review of EU agencies' Institutional Accountability Relationships*	19
The Populist Vs Anti‐Populist Divide in the Time of Pandemic: The 2021 Czech National Election and its Consequences for European Politics*	19
Book Reviews	18
Issue Information	17
Dysfunction and Pathology in Brussels: The European Commission and the Politics of Debt Restructuring	16
Legislative Transparency in the European Parliament: Disclosing Legislators' Meetings with Interest Groups	16
From Protesting Against Troika Bailouts to Pro‐EU Governing in Greece and Portugal: Europeanisation and Institutionalisation Processes	16
The EU at Crossroads: 2022 as a Turning Point Year?	15
Immigration Policy Preferences in Six EU Countries: The Shadow of Intergovernmental Conflicts in Public Opinion	15
Transnational Parliamentary Activities in EU Foreign Policy: The Role of Parliamentarians in the Establishment of the EU's Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime	15
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Enforcement, Information or Socialization? The Role of the European Labour Authority in Protecting Mobile Workers in the EU	15
Non‐documents for Big Decisions: The Commission and the EEC–Japan Automotive Agreement (1991)	14
Border Regions as Nuclei of European Integration? Evidence From Germany	14
A Litmus Test for Democratic Politics in Europe: Parliaments, Brexit and the Future of the European Union, JulienNavarro (London: Routledge, 2022)	14
Trust Matters in the Single Market, but How? Analysing Trust Amongst European Financial Supervisors	14
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From the Green to the Just Transition: The Emergence of the Compensatory State in the EU's Approach to Climate Change	13
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The European Union's Response to the Rule of Law Crisis and the Making of the New Conditionality Regime	12
Irregular and Infectious? COVID‐19, Ebola and the Securitization of Migration to Southern Europe	12
How Have EU Legislators Established EU Agencies With Enforcement Tasks? Case Studies of the European Aviation Safety Agency and the European Medicines Agency	12
Failing Forward in European Economic Governance: The Cyclicality of European Integration and Institutional Competition in the COVID‐19 Crisis	12
EU Snapshots: 2022 Challenges of Fortress EU	12
When EU Agencies Set Up Advisory Committees: All About Autonomy?	12
Moving across Borders: The Work Life Experiences of Czech Cross‐border Workers during the COVID‐19 Pandemic	11
Enforcing European Privacy Regulations from Below: Transnational Fire Alarms and the General Data Protection Regulation^*	11
How Do Supranational Regulators Keep Companies in Line? An Analysis of the Enforcement Styles of EU Agencies	11
The European Union's Place in United States–China Strategic Competition: How Role Dynamics Drive Brussels Towards Washington	11
The New CAP and the Participative Method in Decision‐Making: A Textual Analysis of the Italian Case	11
A ‘Geopolitical Commission’: Supranationalism Meets Global Power Competition	10
Lobbying Across Policy Stages: Different Tales of Interest Group Success	10
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Correction to “Examining the EU Reaction to a Humanitarian Emergency from a Network Perspective: The Response to Cyclones Idai and Kenneth”	10
The United Kingdom: Turning its Back on Influencing the EU?	10
An Evermore Geoeconomic European Union? Exploring Critical Perspectives for Future Research	10
Book Reviews	10
Institutional Quality and Geography of Discontent in the EU	9
Economic Sentiment and Aggregate Activity: A Tale of Two European Cycles*	9
Defining and Operationalising Defiant Non‐Compliance in the EU: The Rule of Law Case	9
The 2023 Cypriot Presidential Elections: Shifts in Domestic and Regional Dynamics	9
Inside the European Union's Trade Machinery: Institutional Changes in an Age of Geoeconomics	9
The Legal Architecture of the Economic Responses to COVID‐19: EMU beyond the Pandemic*	9

Revisiting Policy Preferences and Capacities in the EU: Multi‐level policy implementation in the subnational authorities	9
Critical Theory and International Relations: Knowledge, Power and Practice, by S.Hobden (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023), ISBN 9781526131959); ix+197 pp., £85 GBP hardcover.	9
Europe's Coming of Age, Loukas Tsoukalis (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022, ISBN 9781509554553); 246 pp., 25 GBP hardback.	9
Opening the Black Box of ‘Convergence’ in the European Monetary Union: A Discursive Analysis	9
Context Matters: Variation in the Shortsightedness of European Climate Policy	9
Right‐Wing Eurosceptic Parties and the Strategic Use of Law	9
How the European Parliament Chooses Its Battles: Parliamentary Resolutions on the Negotiation of International Agreements	9
Thank you to Reviewers list July 2023 – July 2024	9
‘Closer to the Market’: EU Research Governance and Symbolic Power	8
Triggers and Hierarchies of Social Identities in the European Parliament	8
All Along the Watch Tower: The European Central Bank and Legitimation Strategies in Times of Crisis	8
Political Entrepreneurs: The Rise of Challenger Parties in Europe, by C. de Vries and S. Hobolt (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020, ISBN 9780691206547); xv+314pp., £25.00 ebook.	8
Pandemic Politics: The European Union in Times of the Coronavirus Emergency	8
A Turn to Export‐Led Growth? Rethinking the Growth Models in Greece and Portugal	8
Networked Health Cooperation in the European Union: Horizontal or Hierarchical?	8
The EU's Combating Antisemitism Policy: Agenda Setting and the Making of a ‘European Polity’	8
Plan B for Europe: The Birth of ‘Disobedient Euroscepticism’?	8
Coordination and Control in European Council Centred Governance. The Netherlands and the Covid Recovery Fund	8
Fundamental Change Beneath the Surface: The Supranationalisation of Rule of Law Protection in the European Union	8
After Merkel – The 2021 German Election and its Implications for European Union Politics	8
The Impossibility of Constitutionalizing Emergency Europe¹	8
The Politics of Emigration in Europe: A Research Agenda*	8
Blessing or Curse? The Rise of Tourism‐Led Growth in Europe's Southern Periphery	8
Security‐as‐Service in the Management of European Border Data Infrastructures	8
Non‐learning Within a Constellation of Communities of Practice: The Case of the EU and Its Democracy Support in the Arab World	8
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An EU Sustainable Migration: Institutional Discourse and Migration Politics	7
Towards a Critical Democracy Promotion Agenda? Liminal Allyship in EU–Tunisian Relations	7
Critical Expectation Gaps: Advancing Theorization of the Perceptual Approach in EU Foreign Policy Studies	7
Sectoral Governance under the EU's Bilateral Agreements and the Limits of Joint Institutional Frameworks: Insights from EU‐Swiss Bilateralism for Post‐Brexit Relations with the UK	7
Does Populism Matter in EU–China Relations? The Cases of Italy and Czechia	7
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From Eurorealism to Europhilia? The 2021 Dutch Elections and the New Approach of the Netherlands in EU Politics	7
EU Industrial Policy and Convergent Development in EU Peripheries: An Assessment of the ‘Important Project of Common European Interest’ (IPCEI) Template	7
Policy Learning and European Integration	7
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A Capacity‐Based Approach for Assessing Changes in Responsibility Sharing in the EU: Comparing the Syrian and Ukrainian Refugee Crises	7
Grand Strategy in 10 Words: A Guide to Great Power Politics in the 21st Century, by S.Biscop (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2021, ISBN 9781529217506); xii+250 pp., £75.00 hb.	7
Working with the EU: How Discourses Shape the Application of EU State Aid Rules	7
Decentring European Union Foreign Policy: Addressing Colonial Dynamics in EU‐Algeria Relations	7
Regulation and Governance Gaps in the Detection of Labour Exploitation Within State‐Funded Domestic Services	6
Mapping Corporate Investments Between China and Europe in an Era of Geoeconomic Competition	6
A Matter of Prescriptive Clarity? Analysing How Swedish Judges' Motives for Action Vary in the Preliminary Ruling Procedure	6
From Europhilia to Eurorealism: The 2022 General Election in Italy	6
The European Semester as Goldilocks: Macroeconomic Policy Coordination and the Recovery and Resilience Facility	6
Where Have All the ‘Exiters’ Gone? Contextualising the Concept of Hard Euroscepticism	6
The Challenge of Right‐Wing Populism in Europe: Response to Reviews	6
Perpetuating Crisis as a Supply Strategy: The Role of (Nativist) Populist Governments in EU Policymaking on Refugee Distribution	6
Spot the Difference: Differentiated Co‐operation and Differentiated Integration in the European Union	6
The Risks and Benefits of Differentiated Integration in the European Union as Perceived by Academic Experts	6
When Expertise Is Not Enough: Explaining the European Commission's Non‐success in the Integration of Public Sector Accounting	6
Continuity and Change of Party Democracies in Europe, edited by S.Bukow and U.Jun (Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2020, ISBN 9783658289874); x+366pp., €66.00 pb.	6
Third Country Influence on EU Law and Policy‐making: Setting the Scene	6
How Implementation Affects Revision: EU Decision‐Making on Changing the Posting of Workers Directive*	6
Brexit Rhapsody: Exploring Patterns of Issue Salience in the Negotiations	6
The Future of British Foreign Policy: Security and Diplomacy in a World after Brexit, by C.Hill (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2019, ISBN 9781509524617); xiii+223 pp., £50.00 hb.	6
Feeling the Heat: Emotions, Politicization, and the European Union	6
Organizational Overlap and Bureaucratic Actors: How EU–NATO Relations Empower the European Commission	6
The Routledge Handbook of Differentiation in the European Union, by B.Leruth, S.Gänzle, and J.Trondal (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2022, ISBN 9780429054136); xx+749 pp., £32.00 ebook.	6
Capturing Women's Standpoint in EU–Turkey Studies: The Evolution of Gendered Publication and Citation Patterns	6
Third Country Access to EU Agencies: Exploring Spaces for Influence	6
Ritual and Affect in Europe Day Celebrations: Institutional Practices of European Identity Construction in Crisis	6
Unveiling Inconsistency: Consensus and Contestation along the Council–Comitology Cycle of EU Policy‐Making	6
Queering European Union Foreign and Security Policy: Invisibility, Heteronormativity and Binaries in the EU's Approach to Women, Peace and Security	6
Politics of Stigmatization: Poland as a ‘Latecomer’ in the European Union, by M.Krasnodębska (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, ISBN 9783030515232); xiv+248pp., €71.00 pb.	6
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Issue Information	6
European Development Co‐operation via Technical Assistance: An Outside‐in Perspective	6
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Between Ideology and Nationality: Drivers of Legislative Oversight in the European Parliament's Economic Dialogues	5
The Influence of the European Semester: Case Study Analysis and Lessons for its Post‐Pandemic Transformation^*	5
Reassessing Cohesion Policy Through the Lens of the New EU Industrial Policy	5
India and the European Union in a Turbulent World, edited by R. K.Jain (Palgrave Macmillan: Singapore, 2020, ISBN 9789811539169); xxv+230pp., €98.00 hb.	5
Towards a Reading of Black Lives Matter in Europe	5
Explaining Non‐compliance in the EU Differentiated Integration: The Case of Transport and Infrastructure Obligations under the EU‐Ukraine Association Agreement	5
Divergent Attitudes of Eurosceptic Parties Towards Intergovernmental and Supranational EU Institutions	5
The Clash of the Policies: The Joint Effect of EU Cohesion Policy and Common Agricultural Policy on the Public Support for European Integration	5
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Joint Institutional Frameworks in EU Bilateral Agreements: Joint Bodies, Rules and Principles, and Special Procedures	5
European Single Market: Evolution and Modern Challenges	5

How 2020 Has Shaped the Future of the European Union: When a Crisis Turns into an Opportunity	5
Issue Information	5
From Liberalisation to Industrial Policy: Towards a Geoeconomic Turn in the European Defence Market?	5
NextGenerationEU and the Future of the European Monetary Union: Shifting Interests and New Fractures in the German Power Bloc	5
As Open as Possible, as Autonomous as Necessary: Understanding the Rise of Open Strategic Autonomy in EU Trade Policy	5
Only if You Play by the Norms! Insider Norms and Outsider Involvement in Eurogroup and Eurogroup Working Group Interaction During the Sovereign Debt Crisis	5
How Do European Countries Use EU‐Funded Food Aid and How Important Is It for the Most Deprived?	5
Between Geopolitics and Political Economy: The European Union–Mercosur Negotiation to Form a Trade Agreement	5
External Contestations of Europe: Russia and Turkey as Normative Challengers?*	5
Why Do some Labour Alliances Succeed in Politicizing Europe across Borders? A Comparison of the Right2Water and Fair Transport European Citizens' Initiatives	5
Dead Ends and Blind Spots in the European Semester: The Epistemological Foundation of the Crisis in Social Reproduction	5
Who Is Responsible for the State of the Economy? Media Narratives on Responsibility Attribution During the Eurozone Crisis in Ireland, Portugal and Spain	5
Differentiation in the European Union in Post‐Brexit and ‐Pandemic Times: Macro‐Level Developments with Meso‐Level Consequences	5
Bureaucratic Responses to Populist Government: Explaining Foreign Policy (Non‐)Change	5
Can Third Country Nationals Be Banned From Schengen? Assessing Member State Unilateral Measures Against Russian Citizens and the Commission's Response	5
Correction to ‘Quid Pro Quo. The Effect of Issue Linkage on Member States' Bargaining Success in European Union Lawmaking’	5
The European Union in a Changing World Order: Interdisciplinary European Studies, edited by A.Bakardjieva Engelbrekt, N.Bremberg, A.Michalski and L.Oxelheim (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 202	5
The Reforms of the Economic and Monetary Union During the Euro Crisis: The Ordoliberalisation of the European Economic Governance?	5
Institutional Inertia and Change: Explaining the Czech and Portuguese Engagement in European Defence Market Integration	4
Community Resilience in Belarus and the EU response	4
Differences in Covid‐Related Regulatory Forbearance Within and Outside the Banking Union – The Case of East‐Central European EU Member States	4
The 2023 Elections in Greece and Spain: Evolving Party Systems in Post‐Crisis Southern Europe	4
Embedded Bilateralism, Integration Theory, and European Crisis Politics: France, Germany, and the Birth of the EU Corona Recovery Fund*	4
Immigration, Refugees and Responses	4
A Spoonful of Sugar: Deference at the Court of Justice	4
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An Introduction: “Macroeconomic Policy Coordination and Domestic Politics: Policy Coordination in the EU from the European Semester to the Covid‐19 Crisis”*	4
The Third Democratic Transformation: From European to Planetary Politics	4
Christian Europe Redux	4
Contesting Europe: Eurosceptic Dissent and Integration Polarization in the European Parliament	4
Thank you to Reviewers list July 2019–July 2023	4
Contesting Brexit Masculinities: Pro‐European Activists and Feminist EU Citizenship*	4
The Hegemonic Politics of ‘Strategic Autonomy’ and ‘Resilience’: COVID‐19 and the Dislocation of EU Trade Policy	4
Thought Communities and Pre‐conditions for Polity Formation in the European Union: Evidence From Six EU Member States	4
One Big Conversation: The EU's Climate Diplomacy across the International Regime Complex on the Paris Agreement Negotiations	4
The European Union's Global Health Actorness: A Research Agenda for a New Age of Pandemics	4
Building ‘Next Generation’ after the pandemic: The implementation and implications of the EU Covid Recovery Plan	4
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Europe's Crisis of Legitimacy: Governing by Rules and Ruling by Numbers in the Eurozone, by V. A.Schmidt (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, ISBN 9780198797050); xviii+366pp., £79.00 hb.	4
The Capture of EU Football Regulation by the Football Governing Bodies	4
Asymmetric Interstate Solidarity and Return Sponsorship	4
Conceptualizing the Regulator‐Buyer State in the European Union for the Exercise of Socially Responsible Public Procurement in Global Production Networks	4
That's an Order! How the Quest for Efficiency Is Transforming Judicial Cooperation in Europe	3
Gender and Crises in European Economic Governance: Is this Time Different?*	3
Global Queer Agonism: Normative Theory of the European Union in Times of Dissensus Over LGBT Equality	3
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Constitutionalizing the EU in an Age of Emergencies	3
The EU and Third Countries: Consequences for Democracy and the Political Order	3
The EU Commission During the Covid‐19 Crisis: Attempts at Self‐Empowerment, or Not?	3
Supranational Self‐Empowerment Through Bricolage: The Role of the European Commission in EU Security and Defence	3
The Failure of Remain: Anti‐Brexit Activism in the United Kingdom, by A.Fagan and S.Van Kessel (Montreal & Kingston; London; Chicago: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2023, ISBN 9780228014133); vi	3
Pushing the EU's Boundaries: Enlargement and Foreign Policy Actorness after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine	3
Euroscepticism, Anti‐Nostalgic Nostalgia and the Past Perfect Post‐Brexit Future	3
When Foreign Policy Becomes Trade Policy: The EU's Anti‐Coercion Instrument	3
EU Snapshots: 2021 Matters Pandemic and Endemic	3
Business Lobbying in the European Union, by D.Coen, A.Katsaitis, and M.Vannoni (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, ISBN 9780199589753); xv+225 pp., £83.00 hb.	3
Online Political Hate Speech in Europe: The Rise of New Extremisms, by G.Zaccardi (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2020, ISBN 9781788113656); v+236pp., £90.00 hb.	3
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The European Green Deal and the EU's Regulatory Power in Times of Crisis	3
Conceptualizing the Regulator‐Buyer State in the European Union for the Exercise of Socially Responsible Public Procurement in Global Production Networks	3
Compliance with EU Law from 1989 to 2018: The Commission's Shift from a Normative to a Regulative Approach	3
Reflections on the Present and Future of European Studies: Expanding our Understanding of EUrope	3
What Does the EU Actually Mean to Citizens? An in‐Depth Study of Dutch citizens' Understandings and Evaluations of the European Union	3
Understanding the European Union's Perception of the Threat of Cyberterrorism: A Discursive Analysis	3
A Convincing Narrative to Control the Crisis Response? The Role of the President of the European Commission During the COVID‐19 Pandemic	3
Business Power and the Geoeconomic Turn in the Single European Market	3
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Eternal Friends or Jubilant Brexiteers? The Impact of Brexit on UK MEPs' Parliamentary Work in the European Parliament	3
Power or Luck? The Limitations of the European Commission's Agenda Setting Power and Autonomous Policy Influence	3
How Hard Does It Have to Be? Reconsidering European Integration and Hard Euroscepticism	3
The Unlikely Survival of Erdoğan in Turkey's May 2023 Elections	3
Walking the Tightrope: Politicization and the Commission's Enforcement of the SGP*	3
The Discursive Struggle for Digital Sovereignty: Security, Economy, Rights and the Cloud Project Gaia‐X	3
Industrial Policy in Disguise: The French Treasury and the Reregulation of the European Insurance Sector	2
From Cohesion to Contagion? Populist Radical Right Contestation of EU Enlargement	2
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‘Nothing Works’? A Quantitative Assessment of the Effects of Different Types of Return and Readmission Frameworks on EU Member States' Enforced Return Rates	2
Is Oppositional Behaviour in European Union Affairs Gendered? Evidence from Plenary Debates and Committee Deliberations in Four Legislatures	2
Unpacking the European Commission: Cabinet Composition and EU Policy‐Making	2
Simultaneous Policy Expansion and Reduction? Tracing Dismantling in the Context of Experimentalist Governance in European Union Environmental Policy	2
‘A Force for Good’: The Narrative Construction of Ethical EU–Vietnam Trade Relations	2
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Awakening the Europhile Giant: EU Issue Voting in Western and Central‐Eastern Europe	2
The Effects of Supranational Delegation on Policy Development	2
The Construction of EU Normative Power and the Middle East ‘Conflict’ … 16 Years on	2
Seniority and Ideological Proximity? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Appointment of Party Group Coordinators in the European Parliament	2
The Revolving Door and Access to the European Commission: Does the Logic of Influence Prevail?	2
Issue Information	2
The Politics of Small Steps: Angela Merkel's Transformative Impact on Germany and the European Union	2
How Do Crises Affect Policy Subsystems? The Evolution of Policy Core Beliefs in the EU Asylum Policy	2
Asymmetric Free Trade Agreements and Misalignment of Incentives: Lessons From the European Union–Turkey Customs Union	2
Who's in the Spotlight? The Personalization of Politics in the European Parliament	2
Stillborn Banking Union: Explaining Ineffective European Union Bank Resolution Rules^†	2