Research Agendas in EU Studies: Stalking the Elephant (Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics)

✍ Scribed by William E. Paterson, Neill Nugent, Michelle P. Egan

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 447
• Series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Leading scholars explore the complex questions arising from the ongoing transformation of Europe through the deepening and widening effects of European integration. Based on authoritative analyses, the book takes account of the many national, transnational and international processes and contexts in which European integration has become embedded.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables and Figures......Page 10
List of Abbreviations......Page 11
Notes on the Contributors......Page 13
Preface......Page 16
The 'explosion' in European Union studies......Page 18
The focus of the book......Page 20
Themes of the book......Page 21
The contents of the book......Page 24
The European Union and European Union studies......Page 28
From ideas to states and institutions and back again?......Page 31
Broad but too uncritical and isolated?......Page 38
So where now?......Page 44
Conclusion......Page 47
Introduction......Page 54
Theory development......Page 55
Constructivism......Page 57
Enlargement......Page 62
Future agendas......Page 67
An overview of the unfolding of the research and associated literature......Page 77
Conceptually based approaches facilitating an understanding of EU institutions......Page 79
Taking stock of existing knowledge on the institutions......Page 89
The impact of enlargement on EU institutions......Page 95
Institutions in the Lisbon Treaty......Page 97
Future perspectives for research......Page 99
Introduction......Page 109
The theoretical debate on the importance of leadership......Page 111
The empirical record: leadership during the past 25 years of European integration......Page 121
Directions for future research......Page 129
Conclusions......Page 130
Introduction......Page 134
What is governance?......Page 135
Propositions about European governance......Page 137
Summary and conclusions......Page 146
The state of the debate: democratic legitimacy and EU governance......Page 151
Can and should the EU be democratic? Answers and trajectories from different models of democracy......Page 153
New research agendas......Page 172
8 European Union Law: A Tale of Microscopes and Telescopes......Page 185
Changing perspectives......Page 186
Changing content......Page 195
Future challenges......Page 196
Conclusion......Page 201
9 New Directions in Europeanization Research......Page 206
Classic (but implicit) expectations about Europeanization......Page 207
Definitional issues......Page 209
The domains......Page 211
Explanation......Page 214
A look at bibliometric data......Page 216
Conclusions......Page 225
Introduction......Page 233
Early developments and debates in European economic integration......Page 235
Impact of integration on national economies......Page 241
Globalization and regionalism......Page 247
From market embeddedness to constitutional asymmetry......Page 248
Future directions for research......Page 249
Conclusions......Page 256
11 Monetary Union......Page 273
EMU as a suboptimal currency area......Page 274
Structural reform......Page 279
Economic governance......Page 282
Conclusion......Page 287
State of the art......Page 295
Diagnosis......Page 305
Future directions for research......Page 310
Conclusion......Page 312
13 Feminist Approaches......Page 322
Legislating for equal opportunities......Page 323
Positive action......Page 327
Gender mainstreaming......Page 328
Diversity......Page 330
Gendered changes in the policy-making process......Page 332
Beyond employment: violence......Page 334
Actors for gender equality......Page 335
Conclusion......Page 338
14 The European Union in the World: Future Research Agendas......Page 346
Core questions for research on the EU in the world......Page 347
State of the art......Page 352
Agendas for future research......Page 356
Conclusion......Page 360
15 Europe and Globalization......Page 371
Globalization and Europe: scope and definition......Page 372
The impact of globalization on Europe......Page 374
The imprint of Europe on globalization......Page 378
Conclusion: globalization and the EU's legitimacy......Page 383
Introduction......Page 392
The State of the art: EU enlargement and EU external governance......Page 394
Future research challenges on enlargement: how far and how fast will the EU's geographical shape change?......Page 400
Future research on the EU's functional reach: the limits of external governance through conditionality......Page 406
Conclusion......Page 411
17 Hastening Slowly: European Union Studies – Between Reinvention and Continuing Fragmentation......Page 415
Disciplinary and interdisciplinary study of the EU......Page 416
Theoretical reflections......Page 418
Informal processes and the governance turn......Page 423
Empirical lacunae......Page 425
The overdue turn to domestic politics......Page 426
Contentious politics......Page 429
Towards a balance......Page 431
C......Page 438
D......Page 439
E......Page 440
G......Page 441
I......Page 442
L......Page 443
O......Page 444
R......Page 445
T......Page 446
Z......Page 447