This volume explores how and why EU-level actors respond to the various, sometime competing, 'bottom up' demands, and challenges the view that domestic contestation necessarily limits EU-level room for manoeuvre.

Edoardo Bressanelli is 'Montalcini' Assistant Professor in the Institute of Law, Politics and Development at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy, and Senior Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London, United Kingdom.

Christel Koop is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Economy at King's College London, United Kingdom.

Christine Reh is Professor of European Politics and Dean of Graduate Programmes at the Hertie School in Berlin, Germany.

1. EU Actors under pressure: politicisation and depoliticisation as strategic responses

Edoardo Bressanelli, Christel Koop and Christine Reh

2. Politicisation management in the European Union

Frank Schimmelfennig

3. Contestation and responsiveness in EU Council deliberations

Sara B. Hobolt and Christopher Wratil

4. The Court of Justice in times of politicisation: 'law as a mask and shield' revisited

Michael Blauberger and Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen

5. Let's speak more? How the ECB responds to public contestation

Manuela Moschella, Luca Pinto and Nicola Martocchia Diodati

6. Responsive withdrawal? The politics of EU agenda-setting

Christine Reh, Edoardo Bressanelli and Christel Koop

7. Understanding the European Commission's use of politicisation in the negotiation of interinstitutional agreements: the role of consultations and issue framing

Adriana Bunea

8. Politicisation and economic governance design

Fabio Franchino and Camilla Mariotto

9. The European Union's authoritarian equilibrium

R. Daniel Kelemen