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  1. Regulatory Approaches in the Face of a Pandemic: Assessing the Role of Ideology, Context, and Rule Design in Four Spanish Regions

    Article • Public Administration, August 2025, Wiley

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  2. Unravelling national governments’ positions on EU rule of law enforcement: structural, semi-structural and ideological factors

    Article • Journal of European Public Policy, January 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  3. Defining and Operationalising Defiant Non‐Compliance in the EU: The Rule of Law Case

    Article • JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies, October 2024, Wiley

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  4. Turning assertive? EU rule of law enforcement in the aftermath of the war in Ukraine

    Article • West European Politics, November 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  5. The Challenge of Catalan Secessionism to the European Model of the Rule of Law

    Article • Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, July 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  6. Democracies’ support for illiberal regimes through sovereignty-protective regional institutions: the case of UNASUR’s electoral accompaniment missions

    Article • European Journal of International Relations, March 2022, SAGE Publications

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  7. A conflict of sovereignty? Democracy versus rule of law in the case of Catalonian succession

    Article • Comparative European Politics, March 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  8. EPR volume 14 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

    Article • European Political Science Review, February 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  9. EPR volume 13 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

    Article • European Political Science Review, November 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  10. Pragmatism and the Limits to the European Parliament’s Strategies for Self-Empowerment

    Article • Politics and Governance, August 2021, Cogitatio

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  11. EPR volume 13 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

    Article • European Political Science Review, July 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  12. EPR volume 13 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

    Article • European Political Science Review, April 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  13. Planning, implementing and reporting: increasing transparency, replicability and credibility in qualitative political science research

    Article • European Political Science, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  14. Farewell editorial

    Article • European Political Science Review, January 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  15. EPR volume 13 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

    Article • European Political Science Review, January 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  16. EPR volume 12 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

    Article • European Political Science Review, October 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  17. EPR volume 12 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

    Article • European Political Science Review, August 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  18. Regionalism Under Stress

    Article • June 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  19. Institutional logics and the EU’s limited sanctioning capacity under Article 7 TEU

    Article • International Political Science Review, April 2020, SAGE Publications

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  20. Mind the (submission) gap: EPSR gender data and female authors publishing perceptions

    Article • European Political Science, April 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  21. EPR volume 12 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

    Article • European Political Science Review, April 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  22. EPR volume 12 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

    Article • European Political Science Review, February 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  23. EPR volume 11 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

    Article • European Political Science Review, November 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  24. A critique of the theory of democratic secession 1

    Article • September 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  25. Introduction

    Article • September 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  26. Between Democracy and Law

    Article • September 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  27. EPR volume 11 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

    Article • European Political Science Review, August 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  28. EPR volume 11 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

    Article • European Political Science Review, May 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  29. Inter-institutional cooperation and intergroup unity in the shadow of veto: the construction of the EP’s institutional role in the Brexit negotiations

    Article • Journal of European Public Policy, April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  30. EPR volume 11 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

    Article • European Political Science Review, February 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  31. EPR volume 10 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

    Article • European Political Science Review, October 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  32. EPR volume 10 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

    Article • European Political Science Review, July 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  33. Tutelage and Regime Survival in Regional Organizations' Democracy Protection

    Article • World Politics, June 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  34. The politics of guarding the Treaties: Commission scrutiny of rule of law compliance

    Article • Journal of European Public Policy, May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  35. EPR volume 10 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

    Article • European Political Science Review, April 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  36. Editorial

    Article • European Political Science Review, January 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  37. EPR volume 10 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

    Article • European Political Science Review, January 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  38. EPR volume 9 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

    Article • European Political Science Review, October 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  39. Interpreting Article 50: Exit, Voice and … What About Loyalty?

    Article • September 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  40. Troubled Membership: Secession and Withdrawal

    Article • September 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  41. EPR volume 9 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

    Article • European Political Science Review, July 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  42. Interregionalism and the European Union: A Post-Revisionist Approach to Europe's Place in a Changing World, edited by M.Teló, L.Fawcett and F.Ponjaert (Abingdon: Routledge, 2015, ISBN 9781472473264); xxx+455pp., £30.00 pb.

    Article • JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies, June 2017, Wiley

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  43. Changing EU internal borders through democratic means

    Article • Journal of European Integration, May 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  44. EPR volume 9 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

    Article • European Political Science Review, April 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  45. Editorial

    Article • European Political Science Review, January 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  46. EPR volume 9 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

    Article • European Political Science Review, January 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  47. Secession from a Member State and Withdrawal from the European Union

    Article • January 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  48. The Substance of EU Democracy Promotion: Concepts and Cases, edited by A.Wetzel and J.Orbie (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, ISBN 9781137466310); xviii+312pp., €94.00 hb.

    Article • JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies, October 2016, Wiley

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  49. Secession from a Member State and EU Membership: the View from the Union

    Article • European Constitutional Law Review, August 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  50. Comparative Regional Integration

    Article • January 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  51. Editorial

    Article • European Political Science Review, January 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  52. In a Spirit of Solidarity? Justifying the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) in National Parliamentary Debates

    Article • JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies, January 2014, Wiley

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  53. The Politics of Ratification of EU Treaties

    Article • September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  54. National Higher Courts and the Ratification of EU Treaties

    Article • West European Politics, January 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  55. Jugando a Ratificar: Las Reglas De Entrada En Vigor Del Nuevo Tratado De Estabilidad, Coordinación Y Gobernanza Del Euro

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  56. Dealing with the Past: Memory and European Integration

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  57. Negotiating the Past: Claims for Recognition and Policies of Memory in the EU

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  58. Consensus, Benign Neglect, and Specialized Knowledge

    Article • November 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  59. Much Ado about Little: Continuity and Change in the European Union Policy of the Spanish Socialist Government (2004–8)

    Article • South European Society & Politics, December 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  60. Why convene referendums? Explaining choices in EU constitutional politics

    Article • Journal of European Public Policy, December 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  61. Ran Hirschl, Towards Juristocracy: The Origins and Consequences of the New Constitutionalism. Harvard University Press, 2004. 286 pages

    Article • International Journal of Constitutional Law, July 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  62. 'Deliberative Constitutional Politics'

    Article • European Law Journal, July 2005, Wiley

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  63. Deliberative Constitutional Politics and the Turn Towards a Norms-Based Legitimacy of the EU Constitution*

    Article • European Law Journal, July 2005, Wiley

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  64. Book Review: Southern Europe and the Making of the European Union, 1945-1980s

    Article • European History Quarterly, April 2005, SAGE Publications

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  65. The Europeanization of Ratification Procedures: Towards a EU-Wide Constitutional Convention?

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  66. The Formation of Domestic Preferences on the EU Constitution in Spain

    Article • Comparative European Politics, December 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  67. Developing a Constitution for Europe

    Article • August 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  68. The Spanish Intellectual Debate on the Future of the EU: Who Was Mobilized and with What Effects?

    Article • South European Society & Politics, June 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  69. Lineages of European Citizenship

    Article • January 2004, Nature

    Prof Richard Bellamy, Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  70. Democracy and National Pluralism

    Article • September 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  71. Improving EU Constitutional Politics? A Preliminary Assessment of the Convention

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  72. Between EU Constitution and Individuals' Self: European Citizenship

    Article • Law and Philosophy, May 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  73. The Domestic Basis of Spanish European Policy and the 2002 Presidency

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  74. Why can still EU citizens claim asylum rights in front of another member state government?

    Article • International Negotiation, January 1998, Brill

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  75. Spain: The Cortes and the EU ‐ a growing together

    Article • Journal of Legislative Studies, September 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  76. The Gulf crisis: A case study of national constraints on community action

    Article • Journal of European Integration, September 1991, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  77. The European Community and the Challenge of the Future

    Article • Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, January 1990, JSTOR

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  78. The Convention method and the transformation of EU constitutional politics

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  79. National plurality within single statehood in the European Union

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  80. European Union citizenship and supranational democracy

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero

  81. Reinforcement of the Rule of Law Oversight in the European Union: Key Options

    Article • Bloomsbury Academic

    Professor Carlos J Closa Montero