Zeitlin, Jonathan, (2016), “EU experimentalist governance in times of crisis”, West European Politics, Volume 39, Issue 5, 9 June This paper analyses the evolution of EU governance since the financial and eurozone crisis from an experimentalist perspective. It argues that EU governance in many key policy domains continues to take the form of an experimentalist decision–making architecture, based on a recursive process of framework goal–setting and revision through comparative review of implementation experience …Read More

Laffan, Brigid, (2016), “Europe’s union in crisis: tested and contested”, West European Politics, Volume 39, Issue 5, 20 June This special issue explores how Europe’s Union is tested though crises but also faces explicit contestation in troubled times. Crises are ‘open moments’ that impact on rulers and ruled, testing existing paradigms, policies, politics, institutional roles and rules. The papers in this special issue test the resilience of the Union in crisis conditions, the …Read More

Young, Alasdair R., (2016), “An inflection point in European Union studies?”, Journal of European Public Policy, 8 June This contribution introduces a selection of the best papers presented at the 2015 European Union Studies Association’s biennial conference. It uses these papers as a jumping off point to consider whether European Union (EU) studies suffers the same ‘gap’ with real-world problems that is seen to afflict some portions of the academy and to …Read More

Carammia, Marcello, Princen, Sebastiaan, Timmermans, Arco, (2016), “From Summitry to EU Government: An Agenda Formation Perspective on the European Council”, Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 54 Issue 4, Jule While some observers have claimed that the European Council has become the key institution in European Union politics, others have argued that the Council’s role has remained relatively stable over time. In this article, we argue that an analysis of agenda formation dynamics …Read More