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European Governance Research Group

          

New MSc in European Governance

 

Well it is interesting that they see the destruction of liberty and democracy, freedom and choice as a Science rather than an Art!

European Governance Research Group

             

New MSc in European Governance

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The European Governance Research Group brings together researchers – academic staff and postgraduates - within and beyond the Department of Politics who are working on a range of research questions in the broad field of European politics.

Research conducted within the Group covers European Union Politics and Comparative European Politics. Core members within the Department of Politics have recently been or are currently engaged in research in the following areas.

1. European Union Politics.

 This includes research on the European Commission and in particular on its organisational cultures and on administrative reform and ethics (Cini); on the impact of enlargement on the Economic and Social Committee (Peréz-Solórzano Borragán); on European competition and state aid policy (Cini); on participatory democracy in the European Union institutions (Peréz-Solórzano Borragán); and on treaty reform in the European Union (Takeda); interdisciplinarity in EU Studies (Cini); European Security and Defence Policy (Johansson); EMU enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe (Feldmann)

2. Comparative European Politics.

 This includes research on interest intermediation in Central and Eastern Europe, particularly in the context of EU enlargement (Peréz-Solórzano Borragán); lobbying regulation in Europe (Cini & Peréz-Solórzano Borragán); post-Communist capitalism in Eastern Europe (Feldmann); democratic consolidation in the development of democratic systems in Eastern Europe (Pridham); the EU and Malta (Cini); external liberalization and trade policy in Eastern Europe (Feldmann); the effects of enlargement on domestic politics, institutions and policies in the new EU member states, including Latvia and Slovakia; nation-building in Belarus (Sanford); the application of European evaluation policy in the EU member states (Mora); on gender mainstreaming in Europe (Minto); and on the impact of European human rights legislation on the military in the UK and Portugal (Vaz); national identity in England and trans-national communities (notably Polonias) (Sanford).

 

To contact the Group, email the Research Group Convenor, Prof. Michelle Cini Michelle.Cini@bristol.ac.uk