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Hurka, Steffen and Michael Kaeding. Report Allocation in the European Parliament after Eastern Enlargement, Journal of European Public Policy

Kaeding, Michael and Alan Hardacre. The execution of delegated powers after Lisbon . A timely analysis of the regulatory procedure with
scrutiny and its lessons for delegated acts. European Law Journal

Klüver, Heike. The contextual nature of lobbying: Explaining lobbying success in the European Union, European Union Politics

2011

Costello, Rory. Does Bicameralism promote stability? Inter-Institutional Relations and Coalition Formation in the European Parliament.
West European Politics, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 122-44

Häge, Frank M. Politicizing Council Decision-Making: The Effect of EP Empowerment. West European Politics , Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 19-47

Kaeding, Michael and Alan Hardacre. Delegated & Implementing Acts - The New Comitology. The EIPA Essential Guide. Maastricht :
European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) .

Kaeding, Michael and Alan Hardacre. Delegated and Implementing Acts: New Comitology, in Alan Hardacre (ed.) How the EU institutions work & How to work with the EU institutions , London : John Harper, pp. 185- 215.

Klüver, Heike. Lobbying in coalitions: Interest group influence on European Union policy-making, Nuffield College Working Papers in Politics, Vol. 2011-4, pp. 1-36

Naurin, Daniel and Anne Rasmussen. Linking Inter- and Intra-institutional Change in the European Union. Special Issue of West European Politics, Vol 34, Issue 1

Naurin, Daniel and Anne Rasmussen. New External Rules, New Internal Games: How the EU institutions Respond when the Inter-institutional Rules Change”, West European Politics, Vol 34, No 1, pp. 1-17

Rasmussen, Anne and Dimiter Toshkov. The Inter-Institutional Division of Power and Time Allocation in the European Parliament. West European Politics, Vol 34, No 1, pp. 71-96

Veen, Tim. The Political Economy of Collective Decision-Making: Conflicts and Coalitions in the Council of the European Union .
New York and Berlin: Springer.

Veen, Tim. Positions and salience in European Union politics. Estimation and validation of a new dataset.  European Union Politics, Vol 12, No 2, pp. 267 - 288.

 Veen, Tim. The dimensionality and nature of conflict in European Union politics: On the characteristics of intergovernmental decision-making.  European Union Politics Vol. 12, No 1 pp. 65-86

 Veen, Tim. The dimensionality and nature of conflict in European Union politics: On the characteristics of intergovernmental decision-making.  European Union Politics Vol. 12, No 1 pp. 65-86

 Veen, Tim. The dimensionality and nature of conflict in European Union politics: On the characteristics of intergovernmental decision-making.  European Union Politics Vol. 12, No 1 pp. 65-86

 Veen, Tim. The dimensionality and nature of conflict in European Union politics: On the characteristics of intergovernmental decision-making.  European Union Politics Vol. 12, No 1 pp. 65-86

Ringe, Nils. Who Decides, and How? Preferences, Uncertainty, and Policy Choice in the European Parliament. New York: Oxford University Press

Toshkov, Dimiter. Taking Stock: A Review of Quantitative Studies of Transposition and Implementation of EU Law. Institute for European Integration Research, Vienna: Working Paper 10/2010

Warntjen, Andreas. Between Bargaining and Deliberation: Decision-Making in the Council of the European Union, Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 15, No. 5, p. 665-679

Wonka, Baumgartner, Mahoney, Berkhout. Measuring the Size and Scope of the EU Interest Group Population. European Union Politics, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp. 463-476

Wonka and Rittberger. Credibility, Complexity and Uncertainty: Explaining the Institutional Independence of twenty-nine EU agencies.  West European Politics, Volume 33, Issue 4, pp. 730-752

2009

Dimitrova and Toshkov. Post-accession Compliance between Administrative Coordination and Political Bargaining. European Integration Online Papers, Special Issue 2, Vol. 13, Art. 19

Hoyland, Hix, Sircaar. An Automated Database of the European Parliament, European Union Politics, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 143-152

Klüver, Heike. Measuring interest group influence using quantitative text analysis, European Union Politics, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 535-549

Lindberg, B. & Rasmussen, A. & Warntjen, A. (Eds.) (2009) The role of Political Parties in the European Union. London: Routledge (reprint of JEPP special issue)

Naurin, Daniel. The European Central Bank – Independent and Accountable? in Gustavsson S., Karlsson, C. and Persson, T. (eds) The Illusion of Accountability in the European Union, London: Routledge.

Rasmussen, Anne. The European Parliament Asserts Its Powers. In: Meny, Y. (Ed.), Building Parliament: 50 Years of European Parliament History 1958-2008, Brussels: European Parliament.

Steunenberg and Toshkov. Comparing Transposition in the 27 Member States of the EU: The Impact of Discretion and Legal Fit. Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 16 (7), pp. 951-70

Jonathan Sullivan and Tim Veen. The EU Council: shedding light on an opaque institution. Government & Opposition, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 113-123.

Warntjen, Andreas. Mode(l)s of Decision-Making in the Council of the European Union, Dublin European Institute, Working Paper 09-6

Yordanova, Nikoleta. Committe Assignments in the European Parliament: Distributive, Informational and Partisan Rationales, European Union Politics, 2009, 10(2): 253-280

2008

Warntjen, Andreas. Mode(l)s of Decision-Making in the Council of the European Union, Dublin European Institute, Working Paper 09-6

Yordanova, Nikoleta. Committe Assignments in the European Parliament: Distributive, Informational and Partisan Rationales, European Union Politics, 2009, 10(2): 253-280

2008

Warntjen, Andreas. Mode(l)s of Decision-Making in the Council of the European Union, Dublin European Institute, Working Paper 09-6

Yordanova, Nikoleta. Committe Assignments in the European Parliament: Distributive, Informational and Partisan Rationales, European Union Politics, 2009, 10(2): 253-280

2008

Warntjen, Andreas. Mode(l)s of Decision-Making in the Council of the European Union, Dublin European Institute, Working Paper 09-6

Yordanova, Nikoleta. Committe Assignments in the European Parliament: Distributive, Informational and Partisan Rationales, European Union Politics, 2009, 10(2): 253-280

2008

Hagemann, Sara. Assessment of the qualified majority rule as laid out in the new Reform Treaty, in: Egmont, Study on Institutional Issues affected by the Reform Treaty, Brussels, European Policy Centre and Centre for European Policy Studies

Hagemann, Sara. Voting, formal statements and coalition building in the Council from 1999 to 2006, in: Wallace, Helen and Daniel Naurin. Games governments play in Brussels, London, Palgrave

Hagemann and Hoyland. Parties in the Council. Journal of European Public Policy , Vol. 15, No. 8, pp. 1205-1221

Häge, Frank M. Who Decides in the Council of the European Union? Journal of Common Market Studies 46, 3: 533-558

 Kaeding, Michael. „Die Auswahl der Berichterstatter im Europäischen Parlament: Informationsbeschaffer oder Verteilungskämpfer?“, in T. J. 
 Selck and T. Veen (eds.) Die politische Ökonomie des EU Entscheidungsprozesses: Modelle und Anwendungen , Wiesbaden: VSVerlag
 für Sozialwissenschaften, pp.163-183.

Lindberg, Rasmussen, Warntjen. Party Politics as Usual? The Role of Political Parties in the European Union, Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 15, No. 8, pp. 1107-1126  

Naurin and Lindahl. East, North, South. Coalition-Building in the Council Before and After Enlargement, in Naurin, D and Wallace, H.
Unveiling the Council of the EU. Games Governments Playin Brussels , Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.  

Naurin and Wallace. Introduction: From Rags to Riches, in Naurin, D and Wallace, H. Unveiling the Council of the EU. Games Governments Play in Brussels , Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Rasmussen, Anne. Party soldiers in a non-partisan Community? Party linkage in the European Parliament. Journal of European Public Policy, pp. 1164-1183.

Rasmussen, Anne. The EU Conciliation Committee: One or Several Principals, European Union Politics, Vol. 9., No. 1

Schneider, Volker, and Frank M. Häge. Europeanization and the Retreat of the State. Journal of European Public Policy Vol. 15, No. 1: pp. 1-19

Toshkov, Dimiter. Embracing European Law: Compliance with EU Directives in Central and Eastern Europe. European Union Politics, vol. 9 (3), pp.: 379-42

Wallace, Helen and Daniel Naurin (eds.). Games governments play in Brussels. Unveiling the Council of the European Union. London, Palgrave, forthcoming (2007)

Warntjen, Andreas. The Council Presidency: Power Broker or Burden? An Empirical Analysis’, European Union Politics, Vol. 9 (2008), No. 3, pp. 316-338

Warntjen, Hix, Crombez. The Party Political Make-Up of EU Institutions, Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 15 (2008), No. 8, pp. 1243-1253

Warntjen, Andreas. Steering the Union, not dominating it , in: Wallace, Helen and Daniel Naurin (eds.). Games governments play in Brussels, London, Palgrave

Wonka, Arndt. Decision-making dynamics in the European Commission: partisan, national or sectoral? Journal of European Public Policy , Vol. 15, Issue 8, pp. 1145-1163

Wonka, Arndt. Die Europäische Kommission. Supranationale Bürokratie oder Agent der Mitgliedstaaten? Baden-Baden: Nomos

2007

Benedetto, Giacomo and Simon Hix. Explaining the European Parliament's gains in the EU constitution. Review of International Organizations, Vol. 2, No. 2., pp. 115 - 129

Benedetto, Giacomo and Bjorn Hoyland. The EU Annual Budgetary Procedure: the Existing Rules and Proposed Reforms of the Convention and Intergovernmental Conference, 2002-2004. Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 565 - 587

Hagemann, Sara. Old Rules, New Game: Decision-Making in the Council of Ministers after the 2004 Enlargement . Centre for European Policy Studies, Special Report, March

Hagemann, Sara. The EU Reform Treaty: easier signed than ratified? , Centre for European Policy Studies, Policy Brief, July

Häge, Frank M. Committee Decision-Making in the Council of the European Union. European Union Politics Vol 8, No 3, pp. 299-328

Häge, Frank M.  The Division of Labour in Legislative Decision-Making of the Council of the European Union,  Journal of Legislative Studies, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 497-516.

 Häge, Frank M., and Michael Kaeding. Reconsidering the European Parliaments' Legislative Influence: Formal vs. Informal Procedures, 
 Journal of European Integration, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 341-361.

Hoyland, Bjorn. Allocation of Codecision Reports in the 5th Parliament. European Union Politics, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 30-50

Koenig, Thomas, Bjoern Lindberg, Sandra Lechner und Winfried Pohlmeier. Bicameral Conflict Resolution in the European Union.  An Empirical Analysis of Conciliation Committee Bargains. British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 37, pp. 281-312

Naurin, Daniel. Deliberation Behind Closed Doors. Transparency and Lobbying In The European Union , Colchester, ECPR Press

Naurin, Daniel. Backstage Behaviour? Lobbyists in Public and Private Settings in Sweden  and the European Union", Comparative Politics, Vol. 39, No. 2

Rasmussen, Anne. Challenging the Commission's Right of Initiative? Conditions for institutional change and stability. West European Politics, special issue edited by Adrienne Heritier and Henry Farrell, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 244 -264

Selck, Rhinard, and Häge. The Evolution of European Legal Integration. European Journal of Law and Economics Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 187-200

Toshkov, Dimiter. In Search of the Worlds of Compliance: Culture and Transposition Performance in the European Union. Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 14 (6), pp. 933-54

Toshkov, Dimiter.In Search of the Worlds of Compliance? A Response. Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 14 (6), pp. 958-59

Toshkov, Dimiter. Transposition of EU Social Policy in the New Member States. Journal of European Social Policy, vol. 17 (4), pp.335-48

Toshkov and Dimitrova. The dynamics of domestic coordination of EU policy in the new member states: impossible to lock in? West European Politics, vol. 30 (5), pp.961-986

Warntjen, Andreas. Steering the Union. The Impact of the EU Council Presidency on Legislative Activity. Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 45, No. 5, pp. 1137-1155

Wonka, Arndt. Technocratic and independent? The Appointment of European Commissioners and its Policy Implications. Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 171 - 191.

2006

Benedetto, Giacomo. The European Parliament: Consensus and Coordination for Enhanced Powers, in:  Koenig, T. and Hug, S. (eds.) Policy-making Processes and the European Constitution , London, Routledge

Ringe and Koepke. The Second-Order Election Model in an Enlarge Europe. European Union Politics, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 321-46

2005

Benedetto, Giacomo. Rapporteurs as Legislative Entrepreneurs: The Dynamics of the Codecision Procedure in Europe's Parliament. Journal of European Public Policy , Vol.  12, No. 1,  pp. 67-88

Hoerl, Bjorn, Andreas Warntjen and Arndt Wonka. Built on quicksand? A decade of procedural spatial models on EU legislative decision-making, Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 592-606

 Kaeding, Michael. The world of committee reports: Rapporteurship assignment in the European Parliament. Journal of Legislative Studies ,
 Vo. 11. No.1, pp. 1-23 .

Larue, Thomas. Unionens ministrar och departement: regeringen och ministerrådet, in: Blomgren, Magnus and Bergman, Torbjörn (eds.), EU och Sverige - ett sammanlänkat statsskick, Stockholm, Liber

Naurin, Daniel and Rutger Lindahl. Sweden: The Twin Faces of a Euro-Outsider”, Journal of European Integration , Vol 27, No 1

Rasmussen, Anne. EU Conciliation Delegates: Responsible or runaway agents? Principal-agent analysis and the study of delegation. West European Politics, Vol. 28, No. 5

Ringe, Nils. Government-Opposition Dynamics in the European Union. European Journal of Political Research, Vol. 44, No. 5, pp. 671-696

2004

Kaeding, Michael. What drives rapporteurship allocation in the European Parliament? European Union Politics , Vol.5, No.3, pp. 355-373.

 Selck, Torsten and Michael Kaeding. Divergent Interests, Different Success Rates:  France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom in EU
 Legislative Negotiations. French Politics, Vol.2, No.1, pp. 81-95

 Selck, Torsten and Michael Kaeding. Divergent Interests, Different Success Rates:  France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom in EU
 Legislative Negotiations. French Politics, Vol.2, No.1, pp. 81-95

 Selck, Torsten and Michael Kaeding. Divergent Interests, Different Success Rates:  France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom in EU
 Legislative Negotiations. French Politics, Vol.2, No.1, pp. 81-95

 Selck, Torsten and Michael Kaeding. Divergent Interests, Different Success Rates:  France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom in EU
 Legislative Negotiations. French Politics, Vol.2, No.1, pp. 81-95

 Warntjen, Andreas and Arndt Wonka (eds.). Governance in Europe - The Role of Interest Groups. Baden-Baden, Nomos

Wonka, Arndt and Andreas Warntjen. The Making of Public Policies in the European Union: Linking Theories of Formal Decision-making and Informal Interest Intermediation, in: Warntjen, Andreas and Arndt Wonka (eds.). Governance in Europe - The Role of Interest Groups. Baden-Baden, Nomos

2003

Rasmussen, Anne. The Role of the Commission in Co-decision: A strategic facilitator operating in a situation of structural disadvantage, European Integration Online Papers, Vol. 7, No. 10

2002

Larue, Thomas. Le regime parlementaire en Suede, in: Costa, Olivier, Kerrouche, Eric and Magnette, Paul (eds.), Vers un renouveau du parlementarisme en Europe? Bruxelles: Editions de l Universite de Bruxelles