Special issue: Best papers from the European Union Studies Association 2017 biennial conference

Summary:

What is ‘European Union Studies’? Answers to this question shape scholarly and public thinking about the European Union, and its member states and citizens. This special issue is devoted to the best papers presented at the 2017 European Union Studies Association biennial conference in Miami.

Articles in this issue:

+ Global European Union Studies: sometimes normal is a little weird | Abraham L. Newman
+ European integration (theory) in times of crisis: a comparison of the euro and Schengen crises | Frank Schimmelfennig
+ The policy narratives of European capital markets union | Lucia Quaglia & David Howarth
+ The inter-parliamentary alliance: how national parliaments empowered the European Parliament | Pierre Haroche
+ ‘You can’t have one without the other’: the differential impact of civil society strength on the implementation of EU policy | Reini Schrama & Asya Zhelyazkova
+ How much do agents in trilogues deviate from their principals’ instructions? Introducing a deviation index | Thomas Laloux & Tom Delreux
+ One wave of reforms, many outputs: the diffusion of European asylum policies beyond Europe | Nina Guérin