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Procedure over substance? CETA and the political economy of subsidiarity (2019)
Journal Article
Walzenbach, G. (2019). Procedure over substance? CETA and the political economy of subsidiarity. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 57(2), 153-171. https://doi.org/10.1080/14662043.2019.1573995

Competing notions of subsidiarity can help to understand the intricacies of new types of trade deals as concluded between Canada and the European Union. From this perspective the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) balances two fundamen... Read More about Procedure over substance? CETA and the political economy of subsidiarity.

Introduction: Two spaces of subsidiarity? (2019)
Journal Article
Mulé, R., & Walzenbach, G. (2019). Introduction: Two spaces of subsidiarity?. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 57(2), 141-152. https://doi.org/10.1080/14662043.2019.1573991

Scholarship on subsidiarity conducted since the nineteenth century has developed two strands of interpretation suggesting competing models of social organisation as far as the potential location of decision-making power is concerned. While this intel... Read More about Introduction: Two spaces of subsidiarity?.

The Tusk proposal and the Brexit debate: Not a bad deal at all? (2016)
Journal Article
Walzenbach, G. (2016). The Tusk proposal and the Brexit debate: Not a bad deal at all?

Of course ‘nothing is agreed until everything is agreed’, but, as it stands, the Draft proposal for a Council Decision (EUCO 4/16) contains a number of concessions going a long way in the direction of the concerns raised by British Eurosceptics. For... Read More about The Tusk proposal and the Brexit debate: Not a bad deal at all?.

Convergent co-ordination patterns in the French and German core executive: The case of the BSE crisis (1999)
Journal Article
Walzenbach, G. P., & Walzenbach, G. (1999). Convergent co-ordination patterns in the French and German core executive: The case of the BSE crisis. West European Politics, 22(3), 64-86. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402389908425316

This article analyses the introduction of a world-wide ban on British beef exports in March 1996; it raises the question how and to what extent a neo-institutional approach can contribute to our understanding of key events leading to the convergence... Read More about Convergent co-ordination patterns in the French and German core executive: The case of the BSE crisis.