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Fourth Pan-European Conference on EU Politics

25 to 27 September 2008
University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

Organized by the ECPR Standing Group on the European Union


Virtual Paper Room

Here you will find conference papers available for download. Please note that the virtual paper room includes only those papers that were submitted by the authors for posting on-line. Please also note that the virtual paper room records only the lead author. Any subsequent authors will be listed only in the papers themselves.

ATTENTION PAPER GIVERS

In order to upload your paper onto the virtual paper room, paper presenters are asked to email them to ecpr_riga_papers@jhubc.it in either MS Word or (preferably) Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format. Please set your filename either to lastname_firstname (.doc or .pdf) or to the paper number in the subject line of the email that we sent you when accepting your paper proposal (e.g. 123.doc or 456.pdf). Papers submitted after noon on Friday or during the weekend will be posted only the following Monday.

PLEASE NOTE: Paper givers are invited to upload their papers as soon as possible. All rooms are equipped with overhead projector, laptop computer and MSPowerPoint.

Papers on File to Date: 125

AuthorPaper Title
Alexander von Lingen and Robert M. CutlerEvolution of the European Parliament as an international parliamentary institution and its autonomy as an international actor
Aline Sierp'Young Europeans: from pro-european to eurosceptic'
Altin Naz SunayThe Perceived (il)Legitimacy of the EU Conditionality: The Role of Uncertainty and Asymmetry of Power
Andjelka MihajlovRegional environmental initiatives: the case of the South-Eastern Europe (Balkan) Regional Environmental Cohesion Initiative
Andrea OttEU REGULATORY AGENCIES IN EU EXTERNAL RELATIONS : TRAPPED IN A LEGAL MINEFIELD BETWEEN EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
Andreas HofmannLitigation Strategy and Legal Dynamics - The European Commission Before the Court of Justice
Andreas ObermaierModels of judicial politics revisited: The ECJ's judicial activism and self-restraint
Andreas ObermaierDe-territorialization and de-structuring dynamics: the impact of ECJ patient mobility rulings on Germany, France, and the United Kindom
Andreas WimmelTheorising the Democratic Legitimacy of European Governance: A Labyrinth With No Exit?
Anna RudakowskaValues and Policy Coordination in the EU Discussion on the Lifting of the EU Arms Embargo on China, 2003-2005
Anna van der VleutenGender in interregional relations: EU as a teacher and preacher?
Anne Elizabeth StieEvaluating the democratic legitimacy of institutionalized decision-making procedures. A deliberate persepetive
Anne van WageningenThe Building of the European Nation; an institutional Approach to European Citizenship
António Ramos dos SantosThe Baltic Sea Region Strategy for the Northern Dimension and its importance for the Baltic States.
António Ramos dos SantosEuropean Policies on Higher Education and the Internal Market Project.
Antti SeppoThe Dilemma of Political Conditionality and its Ramifications for the EU's External Power
Antti SeppoPower without influence? The EU and trade disputes with Russia
Ayca ArkilicThe Eastern Dimension - The EU's Relations with Its Eastern Neighbors
Benjamin PohlExplaining ESDP: A Liberal Approach
Berry TholenTowards an Evaluation of EU Border Control
Bertjan VerbeekThe Politics of Decision-Making during Monetary Crises
Bettina WagnerDeterminants of Support for the European Union in Central and Eastern Europe: The Role of Attitudes towards the Nation State
Bezen Balamir CoskunThe EU's Quest for Energy Security and Persian Gulf
Bjørn Høyland and Jean-Francois GodboutLost in Translation? Predicting Party Group Affiliation from European Parliament Debates
Brid QuinnEuropeanisation and domestic Politics: Understanding the transfromation of Ireland's agricultural policy
Christiane Kraft-KasackEU ccoperation or national decision-making in internal security: How does institutional choice affect abidance by the rule of law?
Christopher LordPolecats, Lions and Foxes. Some reflections on attempts to use indirect legitimacy to justify the EU as a ‘restrained yet capable’ form of political power.
Claudia MorsutIs the European Union revitalising the United Nations?
Claudia RamosThe European Union and Legitimacy: Theoretical Frameworks
Daan BrummerThe reality of NGO involvement in EU migration policy - Do NGO's live up to their promise as saviours of EU democratic legitimacy?
Damien TresalletHow to Analyze Heterogeneity in EMU: the case of French/German economic policies (1992-2007)
Daniel FinkeThe Domestic Origins of (Inter) Governmental Reform Positions
Daniel NaurinChoosing partners. Colation-building in the Council of the EU
DANIELA IRRERAEnlarging the ring of friends: lessons from the European Neighbourhood Policy in the Southern Caucasus
Delphine Deschaux-BeaumeESDP between Europeanization and national interests: an emerging policy conflict management tool on the EU level?
Douglas WebberSUCCESSFUL AND GENUINE FAILURES: FRANCE, GERMANY & THE OTHERS IN THE HISTORY OF "MULTI-SPEED" EUROPEAN POLITICAL INTEGRATION
Eiko ThielemannThe Myth of "Fortress Europe": The (true) impact of European integration on refugee protection
Emanuela Bozzini and Daniela SicurelliConstructing evidence on climate change: the role of bioduels and deforestation
Emanuela Lombardo and Mieke VerlooInstitutionalising intersectionality in the European Union? Policy developments and contestations
Erdal TürkkanPreferability of EU Regulations for Non-Member Countries
Eric MiklinNational Interests or Individual Ideological Preferences? The Services Directive inside the EU's Council of Ministers
Erica EdwardsClarity of Responsibility beyond the Pocketbook: How Political Institutions Condition EU Issue Voting
Erica EdwardsStruggle Over Dimensionality: Party Competition in Europe
Erik O. EriksenThe EU: a cosmopolitan vanguard?
Fabien TerpanThe Europeanization of the French Defence Policy
Fabio Franchino and Bjørn HøylandLegislative Policymaking in Parliamentary Systems: Opportunities, Conflict and Institutional Constraints
Florian TraunerThe Europeanisation of the Western Balkans: deconstructing the EU's routes of influence in justice and home affairs
Florian Trauner and Imke KruseEC Visa Facilitation and Readmission Agreements: A new Standard EU Foreign Policy Tool
Francesca Vassallo and Vincenzo MemoliThe Development of European Citizens: When Integration is not Enough
Francisco LetamendiaINTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION OF SELF-DETERMINATION WITHIN THE EUROPEAN UNION
Fulvio AttinàEU AND EUROPEAN COUNTRIES IN PEACE OPERATIONS
Gabriele AbelsCitizens' deliberations and the EU democratic deficit - Is there a model for participatory democracy?
Gökhan AksemsettinogluConsolidated Enlargement for Political Integration
Hanna LierseThe Evolution of the European Economic Governance System: The case of Company Taxation
Hanna TuominenCan conscience make difference in the conduct of the EU’s external relations?
Hannelore GoemanMigrant integration policy at European level: past, present and future
Hans LindahlBorder Crossings by Immigrants: Legality, Illegality, and Alegality
Hans VollaardA theory of European disintegration
Heike KlüverOnline Consultations in the European Union: Measuring interest group influence using content analysis
Heiko GieblerHow European are Elections to the European Parliament?
Helena EkelundTracing the establishment of the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders (FRONTEX)
Hermann SchmittDeterminants of Dyadic Correspondence in European Parliament Elections
Hui-Yin SungWho Calls the Shot? Power, Interest and Norm in the Non-harmonization of EU Climate Policy
Hylke DijkstraCommission versus Council Secretariat: an analysis of bureaucratic rivalry in European foreign policy
Janis BerzinsLatvia and EU: the political economy of undervelopment
Jason BeckfieldIntegration and Isomorphism
Jean CromboisThe ENP and Crisis Management: Assessing the Use 'Civilian Power
Jens Blom-HansenThe EU Comitology System: Who Guards the Guardian?
Jeroen MoesEuropean identity compared - A mixed methods approach
Johanna JonsdottirCan Iceland Influence EU Decision Making?
Jon Marco ChurchParticipation in the Alpine Convention
Jørgen MøllerElitist Democracy and the Rise of Populism in East-Central Europe. Has Pareto Been Proved Right?
Jozef Batora and Monika MokreSoftening the CFSP: Culture in the EU's External Relations
Juan Casado AsensioWhen "progressive" law hits home: the transposition of the Anti-discrimination Directives in Austria, Germany, and Spain
Judith SquiresIntersecting Inequalities: Britain’s Equality Review
Kathryn WrightEuropean Commission Opinions to National Courts in Antitrust Cases: Consistent Application and the Judicial-Administrative Relationship
Katrin BöttgerThe development of the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP): The EU as a regional power for peace and order?
Katrine AnspahaThe Integration of Islam in Europe: Preventing the radicalization of Muslim diasporas and counterterrorism policy
Kristian L. NielsenThe Weakness of the Eu's Soft Power Strategy
László MaráczSome Consequences for the Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU-enlargement with the Former Soviet Bloc Countries
Lia VersteeghEuropean Citizen: A stimulus for Human Rights and European Integration
Loannis GounarisEuropean Foreign Policy and International Law: is Europe losing its bearings?
Lotte DriegheThe European Union's trade negotiations with the ACP: Entrapped by its own rhetorical strategy?
Madeleine Hosli, Mikko Mattila and Marc UriotVoting Behavior in the Council of the European Union after the 2004 Enlargement
Marek NeumanEnergy as the Defining Component in EU-Russian Relations After the Eastern EU Enlargement
María BusteloSpain: A better performer in gender than in intersectionality
Marianne RiddervoldInterests or principles? EU foreign policy in the ILO
Marie CampainExplaining the Convergence of Eastern Border's Representation in European Decision-makers' minds: Constructivism challenging Rationalism
Markus HaverlandIs knowledge (still) power? Small leader states in EU (chemical) policymaking
Mary Volcansek and Don JacksonThe United States and Europe before the Dispute Settlement Body of the World Trade Organization
Mathieu SegersThe Trans-National Dimension of the "Revolution of Copenhagen"
Matthias M. MayerGermany's Preferences on the Ankara Agreement: Ministerial Actors Between Cold War Security Concerns, Turkish European Ambitions and the Wirtschaftswunder
Maximilian ConradBetween Communication and Community: Exploring the Conditions for Transnational Communication in a European (Media) Public Sphere
Maya GetovaNEW EUROPEAN PARTY SYSTEM: CASE OF BULGARIA
Michael CharokoposThe Accomplishment of an EU-US "Open Skies" Agreement: Learning to Co-operate?
Moritz Jesse"Europeanization" of Immigrant Integration - A Legal Persepctive
Ole Eglström and Magdalena Frennhoff LarsénThe Role of Commission and Council (Dis)Unity in International Trade Negotiations: A Case Study of the EPA Negotiations
Ole Helby PetersenA Regime in the Making: EU's Building of a Regulatory Regime for Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs)
Omar SerranoThe impact of domestic politics in the making of European foreign policy
Paolo GrazianoThe European Employment Strategy and National Welfare States: Italy and France compared.
Per M. Norheim-MartinsenBeyond Intergovernmentalism: the Governance Approach to the European Security and Defense Policy
Peter SlominskiTaking Hybridity of Hard and Soft Forms of Governance Seriously: Concept, Choice and Interaction of Legal Instruments in the EU
Petra AhrensMore actors butter no parsnips: Gaining insights into gender equality programs of the European Union
Piotr TosiekThe European Union after the Treaty of Lisbon - Still an Intergovernmental System
Renate WerkmanInstitutionalized patterns in the public debate about the Common Agricultural Policy
Roxana MihailaPost-Accession Effects of Conditionality: New Member Staes and the Implementation of the EU Competition Policy
Ruben ZaiottiPerforming Schengen: myths, rituals and the making of Europe's post-national territoriality
Sabine SauruggerThe participatory turn and the professionalisation of interest representation in the European Union. A Research Agenda
Sami AndouraRussiA - EuropE % STOP it or EMBRACE it ?!
Saskia van GenugtenTariq Ramadan versus Ayaan Hirsi Ali: debating Islam in Europe Seduction in the realm of ideas
Scott L. GreerWhen does market-marking make markets? EU Health services at work policy in the UK and Germany
Selim Erdem AytaçEU Accession Process and Europscepticism in Candidate Countries
Sheng-Chih WangEurope Opens Its Eyes: The Settlement of Transatlantic Dispute over Satellite Navigation Capability
Sotiris SerbosEvaluating the EU's Anchoring Capacity in the Case of Turkish Candidacy: From Constructive Ambiguity to Progressive Isolation?
Spyros Blavoukos and George PagoulatosCoalition Building in the EU: The Rise and Decline of the "Southern Bloc"
Stefano Braghiroli and Caterina CartaThe EU's attitude towards Russia: condemned to be divided? An analysis of the Member States and Members of the European Parliament's preferences
Stephan Keukeleire and Simon SchunzForeign Policy, globalization and global governance - The European Union's structural foreign policy
Szilvia VaradiThe enlargement policy of the European Union now and in the future
Tim VeenEvent Data: A method for Analysing political behavior in the EU
Toms RostoksRussian media portrayal of Kaliningrad, 2002-2003
Ugur ÖzgökerEU - TURKEY RELATIONS AT THE CROSSROADS: MIGRATION*
Vahur MadeEstonia and the Eastern ENP: Cherrypicking in the Conceptual Chaos
Vitalis NakrosisEffectiveness of implementing the EU cohesion policy in Lithuania
William PhelanWhy do EU Member States Offer a "Constitutional" Obedience to EU Obligations? Encompassing Domestic Institutions and Costly International Obligations
Yannis KaragiannisPolitical Science and EC Competition Policy: Still in the Era of Area Studies?


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