The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg are recognized circumstances of consensus politics. Decision-making within the Low international locations has been characterised via vast involvement, strength sharing and making compromises. those nations have been additionally founding member states of the eu Union (EU) and its predecessors. besides the fact that, the connection among ecu integration and the culture of household consensus politics continues to be unclear.

In order to discover this dating this booklet bargains in-depth stories of a wide selection of political actors comparable to governments, parliaments, political events, courts, ministries and curiosity teams in addition to key coverage matters reminiscent of the ratification of european treaties and migration coverage. The authors concentration not just on Europeanization, but in addition examine even if eu integration may well steadily undermine the basic features of consensus politics within the Low international locations. Drawing on consociationalism and Europeanization learn, this quantity presents a complete evaluate of Europeanization in those 3 ecu member states in addition to a greater figuring out of the forms of consensus politics throughout and inside those countries.

This publication can be of curiosity to scholars and students of eu experiences, eu integration, eu legislations, political technological know-how, ecu political financial system and comparative politics.