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This open access book offers an updated examination of the institutionalisation of political science in sixteen latecomer or peripheral countries in Europe. Its main theme is how political science as a science of democracy is influenced and how it responds to the challenges of the new millennium. The chapters, built upon a common theoretical framework of institutionalisation, are evidence-based and comparative. Overall, the book diagnoses diversity among the country cases due to their take-off points and varied political and economic trajectories.

This book assesses the use and limitations of the principal-agent model in a context of increasingly complex political systems such as the European Union. Whilst a number of conceptual, theoretical and methodological challenges need to be addressed, the authors show that the principal-agent model can still provide deeper insights into a wide range of political phenomena. Through an empirical analysis of multiple principal-agent relations in the EU, covering a variety of policy fields and political actors, the volume refines our theoretical understanding of the politics of delegation and discretion in the EU. It will appeal to scholars in interested in EU politics and policy, public administration and governance, and international organisations.The chapter ‘Multiple principals preferences, different types of oversight mechanisms, and agent's discretion in trade negotiations'is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.

Christian Tatje untersucht zum einen die tatsächliche Nutzung (Häufigkeit und Funktionen) vom Politikschulbuch und dessen Bestandteile durch Lehrkräfte sowie Schülerinnen und Schüler (vor, während und nach dem Unterricht). Zum anderen analysiert der Autor, wie die Schulbücher und ihre EU-Kapitel von Schülerinnen und Schülern sowie Lehrkräften bewertet werden. Dabei konnte eruiert werden, dass Politikschulbücher nach wie vor eine bedeutende Rolle im Unterricht spielen – keine der 52 befragten Klassen arbeitete gänzlich ohne Schulbuch. Neben deskriptiven Analysen wurden latente Regressionen zum Einfluss von Hintergrundvariablen und verschiedenen Lehrer- bzw. Schülerdispositionen durchgeführt.

The European Union clearly matters for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). EU officials and European political entrepreneurs has been crucial in the promotion of funding and access opportunities, but they have been proven to have little capacity to use CSOs for their own purposes.

By comparing the importance of representative democracy to the EU as enshrined in the Lisbon Treaty with the political systems in the EU's newest member states, this study explores whether representative democracy can really exist in an enlarged EU and explores the constraints and opportunities for political parties operating the in the EU.

An interdisciplinary study providing first-hand evidence of the everyday lives of politicians; what politicians actually do on'the backstage'in political organizations. The book offers answers to the widely discussed phenomena of disenchantment with politics and depoliticization.

An interdisciplinary study providing first-hand evidence of the everyday lives of politicians; what politicians actually do on'the backstage'in political organizations. The book offers answers to the widely discussed phenomena of disenchantment with politics and depoliticization.