Transnational Parties and Advocacy in European Integration

Karl Magnus Johansson was formerly Professor and is now Affiliate Professor of Political Science at Södertörn University in Stockholm, Sweden. He was Senior Fellow at the Center for European Integration Studies at Bonn University and Part-time Professor at the European University Institute, Florence. His research interests include European integration and political parties. Tapio Raunio is Professor of Political Science at Tampere University, Finland. His research focuses on representative democracy and political institutions, both in the context of national politics and at the European level, specifically on legislatures, executives, political parties, and foreign policy decision-making.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Europarties – ubiquitous yet rarely noticed.- Chapter 2: Reconciling theories of agenda setting, advocacy coalitions, and transnational political partisanship.- Chapter 3: Europarties: elucidating their organizational evolution and capacity.- Chapter 4: Europarties and the politics of Treaty reform: ascendance, capacity, locus.- Chapter 5: The Conference on the Future of Europe and political families: pushing for reform.- Chapter 6: Conclusions: transnational parties – elusive, but deserving more attention.