This book deals with ongoing processes of European cooperation and integration, processes that may have a potential to change the political organization of Europe. Based on ideas from 'the new institutionalism' the book offers a systematic perspective on institutional change and in particular the ro[...]
Many reformers argue that the future of democracies depends on the quality of their political institutions. If so, it may be worthwhile examining the democratic-instrumental vision of citizens and their representatives - which assumes that they can and should decide how they might be organized and g[...]
This book is published in honour of Johan P. Olsen on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, August 14, 1999. It deals with the topics to which he has devoted most of his professional effort: the ways that institutions, and particularly political institutions, work and should work, and the processes[...]