Despite a growing number of studies featuring “informality” in their title, including many from
the post-socialist region, little has been done to reach a consensus on what informality …

Background Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) concepts, models and tools have been
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This volume examines the interrelationship between democratic legitimacy at the European
level and the ongoing Eurozone crisis that began in 2010. Europe's crisis of legitimacy …

In any multilateral setting, some state representatives weigh much more heavily than others.
Practitioners often refer to this form of diplomatic hierarchy as the'international pecking …

Why do international organizations (IOs) look so different, yet so similar? The possibilities
are diverse. Some international organizations have just a few member states, while others …

Why do governments tolerate the violation of their own laws and regulations? Conventional
wisdom is that governments cannot enforce their laws. Forbearance as Redistribution …

After twenty‐five years, few scholars still dispute the leading role of Liberal
Intergovernmentalism (LI) in theorizing EU history. Yet some question whether it can explain …

We conceive authority of an international organization as latent in two independent
dimensions: delegation by states to international agents and pooling in collective decision …

Liberal Intergovernmentalism (LI) is the contemporary “baseline” social scientific and
historiographic theory of regional integration—especially as regards the European Union. It …

This is the must-have introduction to the European Union. Offering a primer on the EU's
history, institutions, and politics, this concise textbook also covers the various challenges …