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The chapter presents an approach for analysing interinstitutional micro-politics as a means of shaping the EU system from within. The EU’s institutional system continually develops and changes. This process is driven by conceptual inventions and conceptual and political controversies. Part of these have related to treaty changes, EU law acts or court judgements. In addition, there is another type of actions that have shaped the EU as a democratic polity. The EU’s institutions interact with each other, often via power struggles aiming at strengthening or not losing positions and influence. I define these actions as the EU’s interinstitutional micro-politics. These shape the EU’s political regime from within. In line with the reflexive theoretical background developed in part I, this means including such research dimensions as ideas, agency and political actions.
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Wiesner, C. (2019). Who Did It, When and How? Treaty Changes, Law Implementation and Interinstitutional Micro-politics. In: Inventing the EU as a Democratic Polity. Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94415-9_8
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