MICHELLE CINI Jean Monet Lecturer in European Community Studies, Department of Politics, University of Bristol DESMOND DINAN Associate Professor of History and Director of the Centre for European Integration Studies, George Mason University, Virginia HELEN DRAKE Lecturer in French and European Studies, Loughborough University LIESBET HOOGHE Assistant Professor in Political Science, University of Toronto THOMAS LAWTON Lecturer in European Business and Policy, Royal Holloway College, University of London ROGER LEVY Professor of Government and Head of the School of Public Administration and Law, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen ANDREW MACMULLEN Associate Director of the Centre for European Studies and Lecturer in Politics, University of Durham MARYON MCDONALD Senior Fellow, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge LEE MCGOWAN Lecturer in Government, University of Ulster at Jordanstown JANNE HAALAND MATLARY Senior Researcher and Assistant Professor, Centre for Advanced Research of the Europeanisation of the Nation State, Oslo University B.GUY PETERS Maurice Faulk Professor of American Government, University of Pittsburgh MARK POLLACK Assistant Professor of Politics, University of Wisconsin, Madison MITCHELL P.SMITH Assistant Professor of Political Science, Middlebury College

An examination of the central institution of the EU. The editor, Prof. Neill Nugent, brings together a range of perspectives, each based on original research, examining all aspects from recruitment to policy-making, from the Commission's history to its future prospects.