DPP Professor Uwe Puetter is co-author of article on new intergovernmentalism and post-Maastricht EU integration

DPP Professor and CEUR Director Uwe Puetter has published together with Chris Bickerton and Dermot Hodson an article with the Journal of Common Market Studies on new  intergovernmentalism and post-Maastricht integration. The article offers a novel theoretical approach on explaining post-Maastricht integration and seeks to make sense of why European integration has been expanding at pace, yet not through the empowerment of traditional supranational actors following previously established patterns of delegation.

The article revisits conventional notions relating to the character of intergovernmental relations, the role of supranational actors and the emergence of de novo bodies in the context of EU integration. Moreover, it argues that boundaries between high and low politics have become blurred, that problems in domestic preference formation have become a standlalone input to European integration and that the post-Maastricht EU has been in a permanent state of disequilibrium.

 You can read the article on JCMS EARLY VIEW.