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a country’s size makes, was released in Spring 2012. This report argues that in order to fulfil their goals in an EU setting, small states must rely on ‘smart power’. In other words, these countries need to focus on identifying the European issues that are important for the national interest, formulating national positions on an issue at an early stage of discussions, while building alliances with countries with similar policy positions. The second report looks at how Portugal’s 22 MEPs can influence policy-making in a Parliament with 751 members. This report includes an analysis of the votes cast by Portuguese MEPs vis-à-vis other national delegations or the European Parliament as a whole, and interviews with former and current Portuguese MEPs. The next reports will deal with: policymaking through the EU’s multi-national networks; the representation of social, economic and civil society interests; and the recruitment of personnel to work in EU institutions. polItIcAl pArtIES And rEprESEntAtIon The Observatory on Political Parties and Representation (OPPR) together with colleagues at the University of Leiden and the University of Düsseldorf, is currently completing a research project on party membership in Europe. This project has gathered data on current levels of membership in 27 European democracies, and a report analysing the data was written by Ingrid van Biezen (Leiden), Peter Mair (EUI) and Thomas Poguntke (Düsseldorf). These data on party membership, disaggregated by country and by party, will be made available on the OPPR website following publication of the paper. OPPR members participate in a joint project led by the Universities of Pisa, Rome and Bologna and financed by the Italian Ministry of Universities (MIUR). The project, named Sistemi elettorali, partiti e personale politico in Italia: 1987-2008 [Electoral Systems, Parties, and Political Personnel in It- 6 roBErt ScHuMAn cEntrE For AdVAncEd StudIES aly: 1987-2008] aims to study the impact of the change of the electoral rules on the quality of candidate and elected politicians. The project is part of the international project Electoral Systems and Party Personnel: The Consequences of Reform and Non-reform, directed by Ellis Krauss, Robert Pekkanen and Matthew Shugart. The OPPR has also monitored the electoral campaigns for parliamentary elections in Greece and in France within the framework of the project Parties as Multi-Level Campaigning Organisations, which can be considered as the infrastructural project of the OPPR. For many years European elections have been considered in the literature as secondary order elections where national parties matter more than Euro- Parties. This assessment has never really been tested. The OPPR wants to compare national campaigns with the campaigns for the next European elections and clarify whether parties behave in a different way or not. MEdIA proFIlEr The EUDO Observatory on Public Opinion collaborates with the Centre on Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF) for the conceptualization of a Media Profiler. In particular EUDO will help the CMPF to conceive and develop a theoretical framework for assessing the positioning of individual European media organisations in terms of their legal, political, social, geographical, cultural and economic dimensions, resulting in the conceptualization and definition of a group of variables and indicators. The EU-wide media profiler will define a set of propositions (between 15 and 30 statements) referring to public policies and media-related issues. These statements will be derived from a careful in-depth analysis of public debates at EU level, as well as in the 27 EU member states. The Media Profiler team, in close cooperation with European institutions, will collect the relevant information to conceptualize and formulate the propositions, with the involvement Eudo dissemination conference
of a group of top level European journalists, together with other relevant stakeholders in the media system. This set of fundamental stylized concepts, once fully agreed upon and tested, will hopefully come to constitute a benchmark for assessing the position of individual European media institutions. IntErStItIAl InStItutIonAl cHAnGE This project, funded by the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS) investigates institutional change in the European Union which takes place between the highly salient formal treaty revisions. More specifically, research at the Centre explores whether, why, how and with what consequences EU legislation is increasingly ‘fast-tracked’ under the co-decision procedure and passed as ‘early agreements’. Another topic of continuous interstitial change relates to the rules governing comitology, i.e. the implementing of the powers of the Commission. The results of this research will be published in a monograph by Oxford University Press. 7 roBErt ScHuMAn cEntrE For AdVAncEd StudIES
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