This book investigates whether institutional change - the gradual communitarisation of the AFSJ - has triggered policy change, and in doing so, explores the nature and direction of this policy change. By analysing the role of the EU's institutions in a systematic, theory-informed and comparative way, it provides rich insights into the dynamics of EU decision-making in areas involving high stakes for human rights and civil liberties.

Ariadna Ripoll Servent is Junior Professor of Political Science at the University of Bamberg. Florian Trauner is an Assistant Professor in Political Science and Deputy Director of the Institute for European Integration Research at the University of Vienna.

List of illustrations, Notes on contributors, Acknowledgements, List of abbreviations, PART I: Introduction, 1. Setting the context: why EU institutions matter in justice and home affairs, 2. The analytical framework: EU institutions, policy change and the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, PART II: Migration policies, 3. Asylum: limited policy change due to new norms ofinstitutional behaviour, 4. Borders: EU institutions fail to reconcile their agendas despite communitarisation, 5. Migration: differential institutionalisation and its effects, PART III: Internal security, 6. Counter- terrorism: supranational EU institutions seizing windows of opportunity, 7. Police cooperation: a reluctant dance with the supranational EU institutions, 8. Criminal law: institutional rebalancing and judicialisation as drivers of policy change, PART IV: Citizens' Europe, 9. Citizenship and integration: contiguity, contagion and evolution, 10. Data protection: the EU institutions' battle over data processing vs individual rights, 11. Civil justice: the contested nature of the scope of EU legislation, PART V: Conclusion, 12. A comparative view: understanding and explaining policy change in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, Index