Handbook of European policies : interpretive approaches to the EU / edited by Hubert Heinelt (Institute for Political Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt), and Sybille Münch (Center for the Study of Democracy, Leuphana University, Germany).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heinelt, Hubert, 1952- editor.

Münch, Sybille, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Handbooks of research on public policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Policy sciences.

Policy sciences--Europe.

European Union--Economic policy.

European Union.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 pages).

Place of Publication:

Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

This definitive Handbook addresses the current lack of research into European policymaking and development using an interpretive perspective. Questioning areas that mainstream approaches tend to neglect, contributors target the ways in which ideas, arguments and discourses shape policies in the institutional context of the EU. The Handbook of European Policies provides an in-depth and comprehensive introduction for all significant policy areas in the EU, highlighting the theories of post-positivism and interpretivism. With rich explanations of different methodological and conceptual approaches to post-positivist research, key chapters consider the essential exchange between EU integration studies and EU policy studies, examining how both can benefit from this new and exciting approach. Offering theoretically grounded answers, this Handbook creates a dialogue between critical policy studies and European integration theory. Academics and practitioners concerned with the functioning of EU policies will benefit from the eminent contributors' insights into issues high on the institutional agenda of the EU and its member states. In addition, the Handbook is suitable for both undergraduate and graduate courses concerned with European integration and EU policies.

Contents:

Contents: Introduction / Hubert Heinelt and Sybille Münch

Part I

1. The constructivist turn in EU public policy approaches / Sabine Saurugger

2. The role of ideas and discourse in European integration / Vivien A. Schmidt

3. EU policies and the Europeanisation of domestic policy making / Claudio M. Radaelli

4. How to explain discursive change? : an actor-centered approach to interpretive explanation / Frank Nullmeier

5. The framing of EU policies / Falk Daviter

Part II

6. EU agricultural policy / Peter H. Feindt

7. The EU structural funds / Hubert Heinelt and Wolfgang Petzold

8. European spatial planning policy / Rob Atkinson and Karsten Zimmermann

9. EU consumer policy / Katharina T. Paul and Holger Straßheim

10. EU trade policy / Yelter Bollen

11. EU environmental policy / Miranda A. Schreurs

12. EU energy policy / Michèle Knodt

13. EU research, technological development and innovation policy / Peter Biegelbauer and K. Matthias Weber

14. European higher education policy / Dorota Dakowska and Kathia Serrano-Velarde

15. EU foreign policy / Xymena Kurowska

16. EU development policy / Sarah Delputte and Jan Orbie

17. EU migration and asylum policies / Sybille Münch

18. EU gender equality policies / Johanna Kantola and Emanuela Lombardo

Part III

19. Think tanks in EU public policies / Jesper Dahl Kelstrup

20. Strategic use and social taming : opening up the doctrine of market competition in public procurement / Detlef Sack and E. K. Sarter

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781784719364 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.