| The research programme Politics and Culture in Europe (PCE) seeks to understand and explain the process of European integration and its political, institutional and ideational characteristics. It does so by taking into account the historical and cultural contexts as well as the international, if not ?global? context of EU policy making. Topics range from reflections on the history and democratic credentials of the EU polity to the empirical and theoretical analysis of Europeanisation processes; from research on the EU?s foreign and security policy to the study of Euroscepticism in its different forms; from scrutiny of administrative cultures and bureaucratic politics at the national and supranational levels to historical research on the constitutive role of statistics for state and polity building. |
