Europeanization, European integration and financial services : developing theoretical frameworks and synthesising methodological approaches / Kerry E. Howell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howell, Kerry E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Financial services industry--Government policy.

Financial services industry.

Europe--Economic integration.

Europe.

European Union.

Financial services industry--Government policy--European Union countries.

European Union countries.

Physical Description:

xi, 211 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Contents:

General Introduction: Linking Levels of Theory and Methodological Approaches 1

Part I Philosophical Perspectives and Theoretical Frameworks 17

1 Recognizing Civil Constitutions: Hegel and Kant as the Basis of Integration Theory? 19

2 Re-assessing European Integration Theory 32

3 Uploading, Downloading or Crossloading? Conceptualizing Europeanization and European Integration 41

Part II Europeanization and European Integration: A Historical Perspective 61

4 Europeanization and European Integration: Empirical and Historical Developments 63

5 Macro Uploading and Shared Beliefs: The Single European Act and Economic and Monetary Union 77

6 Micro Uploading: Sub-national Interests and Supranational Institutions 94

Part III Europeanization as Situation and Process: Synthesizing Theory and Methodology 105

7 Identifying Difference and Potential Shared Beliefs: Domestic Issues and Financial Services Regulation 107

8 Shared Beliefs and Micro and Macro Uploading 123

9 Macro Uploading and Supranational Institutions: Formulating the Financial Services Action Plan (FSAP) 140

10 Europeanization Impacts on Member State Financial Services: Case Studies of the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and Poland 151.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-193) and index.

ISBN:

1403912556

OCLC:

56195477