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SUBMITTER: van der Veer RA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6108040 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
van der Veer Reinout A RA Haverland Markus M
European Union politics 20180419 3
Does domestic contestation of European Union legitimacy affect the behaviour of the European Commission as an economic and fiscal supervisor? We draw on theories of bureaucratic responsiveness and employ multilevel and topic modelling to examine the extent to which the politicisation of European integration affects the outputs of the European Semester: the Country-Specific Recommendations. We develop two competing sets of hypotheses and test these on an original large-N data set on Commission be ...[more]