Notes
Simon Hix is Reader in European Union Politics and Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The ideas and some of the evidence in this paper are derived from a major collaborate project on voting in the European Parliament, carried out by Abdul Noury, Free University in Brussels, Gerard Roland, University of California, Berkeley, and the author. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the conference on “The International Role of the European Union and the Enlargement Process”, Bologna, 11–12 October 2002, organised by the IAI and Almaweb, with the support of the Compagnia di San Paolo, the European Commission and Carisbo, and the cooperation of the Universities of Bologna and Parma, il Mulino, Il Regno and the Istituto Cattaneo.