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Intro -- Preface -- Nationalisms in Europe -- Structure of the Book -- Part I. Nationalisms and European Integration -- Part II: Europeanization and Trajectories of Transnational Party Coordination -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I: Nationalisms and European Integration -- 1: The Europeanization of Opposing Nationalist Party Families -- Opposing Nationalist Party Families -- The Europeanization of Nationalist Party Families -- Filling the Gap -- Data and Methodology -- References -- 2: The Minority Nationalist Party Family and the European Cleavage -- The Position of the Minority Nationalist Party Family on European Integration -- The Complexity of the Center-Periphery Cleavage: Ideological Dimensions -- The Center-Periphery Cleavage and European Integration -- Visions and Models of Europe -- The Politicization of European Integration: The Salience -- Conclusions -- References -- 3: The Populist Nationalist Party Family and the European Cleavage -- The Populist Nationalist Party Family and European Integration: Becoming the Eurosceptic Vanguard -- Populist Nationalist Parties, the Left-Right Dimension and European Integration -- The Content of Euroscepticism -- The Politicization of European Integration -- Conclusions -- References -- Part II: Europeanization and Trajectories of Transnational Party Coordination -- 4: The Potential for Transnational Nationalisms in the European Party System -- From Domestic to European: An Emerging Multilevel European Party System -- The Territorial and Electoral Presence of Nationalisms in the European Arena -- Institutionally Embedded Transnationalism: The Formal Rules of Procedure -- Conclusions -- References -- 5: Transnational Party Coordination Among Minority Nationalist Parties

Intro -- Contents -- Table of Cases -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1. Introduction -- I. A Primer: Operationalising Institutional Balance as a Yardstick for Assessing Institutional Developments -- II. Structure of the Enquiry -- 2. A Formal Reading of the Lisbon Treaty -- I. The Formal Catalogue of Acts -- II. The Lisbon Treaty's 'Atypical' Acts -- III. The Distinction between Delegated and Implementing Acts: A Cursory Reading of the TFEU -- IV. Parliamentary Control Over Post-Lisbon Executive Acts -- 3. The Road Leading Up to the Lisbon Treaty -- I. Comitology's Origins and Original Sin -- II. Judicial Sanctioning of Comitology and the Commission's Broad Implementing Powers -- III. From the Single European Act to the 2006 Revision of the Second Comitology Decision -- IV. A Recalibrated Institutional Balance -- 4. The Exponential Multiplication of Delimitation Problems -- I. Delimitation of Autonomous Executive Acts against (Delegated) Legislation and Implementation -- II. Delimitation of Legislation and Delegation -- III. Delimitation of Delegated and Implementing Acts -- 5. Delegated Power: Further Limits and Procedure -- I. The Passive Personal Scope of Article 290 TFEU -- II. Breaking Down the Specificity Requirement -- III. Testing Specificity in Practice -- IV. Procedural Limits to the Exercise of Delegated Powers -- 6. Implementing Power: Triggering Factors, Nature, Extent and Procedure -- I. The Notion of Uniform Conditions -- II. Reconceptualising Implementing Powers Post-Lisbon -- III. Exceptional Implementation by the Council -- IV. The (not so) Closed List of Implementing Actors and Implementing Acts -- V. The Comitology Procedures -- VI. No Self-Love, the 2017 Proposal to Amend the Comitology Regulation -- 7. The Practice and Politics of Delegated Legislation -- I. Strategies in Delegating Powers.

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Defence date: 21 October 2016 ; Examining Board: Professor Hanspeter Kriesi, European University Institute (Supervisor); Professor Pedro C. Magalhães, University of Lisbon; Professor Mariano Torcal, Pompeu Fabra University; Professor Alexander H. Trechsel, European University Institute ; This thesis is a collection of four empirical studies that analyze Europeans' democratic aspirations and evaluations and their behavioral implications. It is well established that most citizens support democracy in the abstract but that a substantial proportion of them are not fully satisfied with the way democracy works. However, we know significantly less about the specific type of democracy citizens aspire to, about the extent to which they evaluate that their democracies meet these democratic aspirations, and about how these aspirations and evaluations relate to their political behavior. Drawing on an innovative dataset that provides a detailed account of individuals' democratic aspirations and evaluations I first assess the availability and structuration of these attitudes towards democracy in the belief systems of Europeans. Next, I analyze how democratic aspirations and evaluations and the imbalance between the two relate to political participation and party choice decisions. The empirical analyses reveal that: (i) these attitudes towards democracy are widely available and coherently structured in the belief systems of most individuals; (ii) that democratic aspirations and evaluations, and the imbalance between the two, are significantly related to the likelihood of turning out to vote and demonstrating, but that, at the same time, their impact is contingent on a series of individual- and macro-level factors; (iii) that the imbalance between democratic aspirations and evaluations that individuals perceive for specific elements democracy is significantly related to their likelihood of defecting from mainstream parties and voting for different types of challenger parties. In the conclusion to this dissertation I discuss the potential implications of these findings for the quality and stability of democracies, and how these findings qualify some aspects of the prevailing optimistic outlook about the behavior of those who are critical or dissatisfied with the functioning of their democracies.

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