European Union: Power and Policy-Making

✍ Scribed by Jeremy Richardson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 405
• Series: Routledge Research in European Public Policy
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This innovative and lively book draws upon recent and ongoing research on the EU policy process and utilizes theoretical concepts from both international relations and public policy studies. The contributors are some of the best-known writers on European politics and policy making. Their contibutions offer accessible and stimulating introductions to the key insitutions of the EU, providing the reader with a detailed knowledge of how policy is made and implemented.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
THE CONTRIBUTORS......Page 14
PREFACE......Page 16
THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES......Page 18
Policy-making in the EU: interests, ideas and garbage cans of primeval soup......Page 20
European integration: unfinished journey or journey without end?......Page 44
Integration theory and the study of the European policy process: towards a synthesis of approaches......Page 68
AGENDA-SETTING AND INSTITUTIONAL PROCESSING......Page 92
Agenda-setting in the European Union......Page 94
The European Commission: administration in turbulent times......Page 112
Parliaments and policy-making in the European Union......Page 132
The Council of Ministers: the politics of institutionalised intergovernmentalism......Page 152
The national co-ordination of European policy-making: negotiating the quagmire......Page 172
The Court of Justice and the European policy process......Page 196
CHANNELS OF REPRESENTATION......Page 216
European elections and the European voter......Page 218
Interest groups and EU policy-making: organisational logic and venue shopping......Page 234
Bypassing the nation-state? Regions and the EU policy process......Page 256
A SUPRANATIONAL STATE?......Page 274
Enlarging the European Union: the short-term success of incrementalism and depoliticisation......Page 276
The EU as an international actor......Page 300
European regulation......Page 320
European Monetary Union: developments, implications and prospects......Page 338
Implementing EU public policy......Page 352
Democracy and accountability in the EU......Page 374
INDEX......Page 392