Brendan J. Carroll

TL;DR: The structure and organisation of the machinery of government are key to the ambitions of political coalitions and when portfolio allocation and agencification are a function of political choice, poli...

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of political turnover of individual ministers and of the political ideology of coalitions on a dataset of intra-ministerial changes in Dutch ministries between 1980 and 2014 were investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, van de verantwoordingsproces na een crisis kan heftig verlopen, e.g., in 2014 toen een monstertruck het publiek in Haaksbergen was re-reed tijdens een festival.

TL;DR: The role and position of interest groups in the European Union (EU) is widely debated in the media, in particular how these non-elected political actors affect the EU's democratic legitimacy and deteriorate the transparency of its policymaking process.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the application of EU farm animal welfare legislation in 27 member states and developed a theoretical framework that applies insights from the transposition literature to the post-transposition phase of implementation and derives hypotheses to explain cross-national variation in implementation success.