type="graphical" xml:id="gpol12146-abs-0002" <p>Growth potential among member states is unequally distributed. Nations least likely to be able to follow the European recovery strategy are most likely to have their political leeway reduced by policy recommendations related to the new economic...</p>

type="graphical" xml:id="gpol12061-abs-0002" <p>‘Globalizing policy fields can contain institutional voids in which effective regulatory frameworks and the corrective counterbalance of civil society are equally absent.’ In this paper, Helmut Anheier recommends the ‘systematic development of a...</p>

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In recent years, the third or voluntary sector has become more important for ‘Europe’, as indicated by the 1997 Communication of the European Commission and various Declarations attached to the EU Treaties. These official statements not only suggest greater political interest in the third...