The aim of this article is to present the results of two consecutive research projects on the compliance to European social regulations in the fifteen original Member States and in some of the new Member States, and more specifically in several of the Central and Eastern European Member States....

Recently, political science has seen an intense debate about the phenomenon of “governance”. The aim of this paper is to clarify the basic concepts that are at the heart of this debate, notably “governance” and “modes of governance”. It argues that most contributions share a common...