Keynote Article: Questions of Europe - The Domestic Politics of the 2005 French and Dutch Referendums and their Challenge for the Study of European Integration.

The article deals with the more theoretical conceptualization of models of democratic process and suggests that the increased use of referendums marks a tendency towards resorting to plebiscitary politics in the European integration project. It analyzes the French and Dutch referendum results, highlighting key differences between the arguments, forces, campaigns and no votes that reinforce both the importance of not treating them as indicative of common factors and the need to integrate effectively the study of domestic European political processes with European integration. It explores that this integrated approach poses for the study of contemporary Europe.