Explaining Institutional Change in Europe

This book discusses the change of five important institutional rules of decision-making in the European Union and proposes a general explanation of long-term institutional change which is also applicable for the change of decision-making rules beyond Europe.

Adrienne Heritier holds a joint chair of political science at the Department of Political and Social Science and the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence. She has previously been a Director of the Max Planck Project Group (now Max Planck Institute) for Common Goods in Bonn, Germany. Her main areas of research are comparative public policy making, regulation, Europeanization, institutional theory and new modes of governance.