An increasing number of studies have compared climate change adaptation policies within
and between different countries. In this paper we show that these comparative studies suffer …

In European politics, the idea of a 'Europe of the Regions' came to the fore in the 1980s and
early 1990s, in response to innovative policy and institutional developments in European …

Through its collective regulation, the European Union (EU) has institutionalized as a critical
space for public action. Yet, frequently regions are considered 'objects' of EU politics, rather …

Analyses of agenda setting and decision making have highlighted that issue salience plays
an important role in those stages of the policy process. This article investigates the role of …

The Netherlands is traditionally considered a decentralized unitary state. Recent
decentralization of responsibilities from the national to the local level and scaling-up of …

Constitutionally, Belgium represents the most extreme case of regional entities wielding
power over EU external trade policymaking. Formally, the Flemish, Walloon and Brussels …

Europeanisation is now a very prolific area of scholarly research in the social sciences,
encompassing among other aspects examination of change in the polities, public policies …

Europeanization is increasingly fashionable in the social sciences as a research focus as
well as a backdrop for studies of the European Union and its relations with its member …

The European Union (EU) has been through many institutional transformations since the
start of the integration project in the 1950s. While much of the literature has focussed on the …

The literature on the relationship between regions and the European Union (EU) has
generated important insights. Firstly, existing scholarship has found that the EU has …