Constructing a policy-making state? : policy dynamics in the EU / edited by Jeremy Richardson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Richardson, Jeremy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political planning--European Union countries.

Political planning.

Executive advisory bodies--European Union countries.

Executive advisory bodies.

Public administration--European Union countries.

Public administration.

European Union countries--Politics and government.

European Union countries.

European Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (435 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A guide to how the European Union really works, in which 12 policy sectors are analysed by some of the leading EU scholars in the world. It considers how policy is made at the EU level, who is involved, which are the key institutions, and if they are pro-integration.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; PART I; 1. Supranational State Building in the European Union; 2. Agenda-Setting and the Formation of an EU Policy-Making State; PART II; 3. Competition Policy: The Evolution of Commission Control; 4. From the Treaty of Paris to Globalization: Steel and its 'Escape' from EU Governance; 5. Globalization and Internal Policy Dynamics in the Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy; 6. Environmental Policy: Governing by Multiple Policy Instruments?

7. Policy Entrepreneurship, Group Mobilization, and the Creation of a New Policy Domain: Women's Rights and the European UnionPART III; 8. Inching Towards a Common Energy Policy: Entrepreneurship, Incrementalism, and Windows of Opportunity; 9. The EMU Paradox: Centralization and Decentralization in EU Macroeconomic Policy; 10. Financial Regulation in Europe: From the Battle of the Systems to a Jacobinist EU; 11. The Dynamics of EU Migration Policy: From Maastricht to Lisbon; 12. The EU's Foreign Economic Policies: Limits to Delegation

13. Developing a 'Comprehensive Approach' to International Security: Institutional Learning and the CSDP14. Polity-making without Policy-making: European Union Healthcare Services Policy; 15. Promoting Policy Dynamism: The Pathways Interlinking Neofunctionalism and Intergovernmentalism; 16. Governance Institutions and Policy Implementation in the European Union; 17. The Onward March of Europeanization: Tectonic Movement and Seismic Events; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-161149-2

1-283-63948-3

OCLC:

922971351