Frameworks of the European Union's Policy Process

Nikolaos Zahariadis is professor and director of the political science program at the Department of Government, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. He is the co-chair of the public policy section of the European Union Studies Association, former president of the International Studies Association-South, a Fulbright scholar, a Policy Studies Organization Fellow, and the recipient of numerous honors and awards for his work on comparative public policy.

• 1. Building better theoretical frameworks of the European Union’s policy process 2. Twenty years of multi-level governance: ‘Where Does It Come From? What Is It? Where Is It Going?’ 3. Advocacy coalitions: influencing the policy process in the EU 4. Punctuated equilibrium theory and the European Union 5. Ambiguity, multiple streams, and EU policy 6. Constructivism and public policy approaches in the EU: from ideas to power games 7. A normative power Europe framework of transnational policy formation 8. Learning in the European Union: theoretical lenses and meta-theory