Special Issue: Best conference papers, EUSA 2013, Baltimore

Contents of this Special Issue of the Journal of European Public Policy are:

+ Narratives, norms and governability in the European Union: an introduction
Michelle Egan

+ Interest group influence and interinstitutional power allocation in early second-reading agreements: a re-examination of aviation emissions trading
Maja Andlovic & Wilhelm Lehmann

+ Is informal politics undemocratic? Trilogues, early agreements and the selection model of representation
Christine Reh

+ How consensual is comitology?
R. Dehousse, A. Fernández Pasarín & J. Plaza

+ Constraining or enabling? The effects of government composition on international commitments
Sibel Oktay

+ The power of functionalist extension: how EU rules travel
Sandra Lavenex

+ Europe as a global regulator? The limits of EU influence in international food safety standards
Alasdair R. Young

+ Does dialogue work? The effectiveness of labor standards in EU preferential trade agreements
Evgeny Postnikov & Ida Bastiaens

+ Accounting for the bad apples: the EU's impact on national corruption before and after accession
Mert Kartal