ABSTRACT
Throughout the 1990s, attempts to understand major constitutional decisions, as landmarks in the integration process, were accompanied by a growing literature examining the functioning of the EU as a system of governance. Drawing on approaches from the areas of comparative politics and policy analysis (Armstrong and Bulmer 1998; Bulmer 1994a; 1994b; Cram 1997; Hix 1999; Majone 1993; Marks 1992; Mazey and Richardson 1993; Pierson 1996; Peterson 1995; Peterson and Bomberg 1999; Richardson 1996; Sbragia 1992; Scharpf 1988; Wallace and Wallace 1996 and 2000):
(Caporaso and Keeler 1995:43) It is now commonly recognised that it is important to focus, not simply on the process through which major institutional change takes place in the EU, but also on the ‘day to day’ functioning of the EU as a polity.
