Constitutional Debate on European Union’s Shifting Pathway towards Supranationalism

Shifting the debate on geoengineering.

www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 328 7 MAY 2010 657 COVER Three Neandertal bone fragments, approximately 40,000 years old, from Vindija Cave, Croatia (shown to scale). DNA extracted from these bones was used to generate a draft sequence of the Neandertal genome, which was then compared to the genomes of fi ve present-day humans. See page 710 and www.sciencemag.org/special /neandertal /. Photo: Ch...

European Union energy policy integration: A case of European Commission policy entrepreneurship and increasing supranationalism

Focusing on gas, this article explores the role of the European Commission in the process of European Union energy security policy development, and the extent to which the policy area is becoming increasingly supranational. Situating the article within the literature on agenda-setting and framing, it is argued that a policy window was opened as a result of: enlargement to include more energy im...

The European Convention on Human Rights and National Constitutional Reordering

The EU Budgetary Procedure in the Constitutional Debate

Despite widespread calls for reforms of the EU budgetary procedure, the European Convention and, even more importantly, the Intergovernmental Conference seem to have generated only minor institutional adjustments. This paper aims to explore the lack of institutional change in the budgetary field. On the basis of a thorough analysis of the current budgetary procedure and a detailed assessment of...

The Congressional Debate on Partial-Birth Abortion: Constitutional Gravitas and Moral Passion

I employ automated content analysis to measure the dimensionality of Senate debates on the 2003 Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act and compare these results with the final vote. The underlying verbal conflict leading up to the final roll call vote contains two important dimensions: (1) an emotive battle over the abortion procedure itself, and (2) the battle over the constitutionality of the bill. S...