Johannes Pollak

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse Frontex through the lens of experimentalist governance, and argue that the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders (Frontex) may only succeed if FrONtex has a sufficient degree of organisational independence and enjoys appropriate and steady support by all member states.

TL;DR: The European Union's (EU's) compound form of representation allows a wide-ranging spectrum of actors to claim to be representative, and allows different channels to feed their demands and interests into the political system as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The Austrian Parliament has at its disposal the strongest participation rights enabling it to influence European Union (EU) affairs as discussed by the authors. But does this guarantee a more powerful parliament in real terms? It turns out that the original intention of providing the Austrian Parliament with a strong instrument to contribute to the EU decision-making process has been shattered by party-dominated parliamentary life.

TL;DR: The Austrian Parliament has at its disposal the strongest participation rights enabling it to influence European Union (EU) affairs as mentioned in this paper. But does this guarantee a more powerful parliament in real terms? It turns out that the original intention of providing the Austrian Parliament with a strong instrument to contribute to the EU decision-making process has been shattered by party-dominated parliamentary life.

TL;DR: The relationship between representation and accountability in democratic politics is discussed in this article, where it is argued that depending on the institutional properties of a political system, varied ways of combining representation with accountability can amount to significant differences in the practice and quality of democracy.