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9780199247660

The European Union How Does It Work?

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    9780199247660

  • ISBN10:

    0199247668

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-03-06
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

This short introductory text de-mystifies the European Union's structures and operation. Blending scholarly expertise and practitioners' experience, the authors introduce and analyse the EU's key actors, processes and developments. The book's overall aim is to provide an accessible, lively introduction to how the EU works and why it matters.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements xii
List of Figures
xiv
List of Boxes
xv
List of Tables
xvii
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
xviii
List of Contributors
xxi
The expanding European Union xxiii
Introduction
3(16)
Studying the EU
3(5)
Understanding the EU: theory and conceptual tools
8(5)
International relations approaches
10(1)
A comparative politics approach
11(1)
A public policy approach
11(2)
Structure and themes
13(6)
Experimentation and change
13(1)
Power-sharing and consensus
14(2)
Scope and capacity
16(3)
How Did We Get Here?
19(24)
Introduction
20(1)
Post-war settlement
21(8)
Schuman Plan
23(2)
European Defence Community
25(1)
European Community
26(3)
Consolidating the European Community
29(4)
Crisis and compromise
30(1)
EC after de Gaulle
31(1)
Difficult decade
32(1)
The emerging European Union
33(4)
Economic and monetary union
34(1)
Maastricht and beyond
34(2)
Post-Cold War enlargement
36(1)
Conclusion
37(6)
The EU's Institutions
43(26)
Introduction: institutions in Treaty and practice
44(18)
European Commission
44(5)
Council of Ministers
49(6)
European Council
55(1)
European Parliament
56(4)
European Court of Justice
60(2)
Understanding institutional dynamics
62(2)
Why institutions matter
64(2)
Experimentation and change
64(1)
Power-sharing and consensus
65(1)
Scope and capacity
66(1)
Conclusion
66(3)
Member States
69(19)
Introduction
69(2)
Six determining factors
71(11)
Entry date
71(2)
Size
73(3)
Wealth
76(2)
State structure
78(1)
Economic ideology
78(1)
Integration preference
79(3)
Member states in action
82(1)
Managing EU business
83(1)
Explaining member states' engagement
84(1)
Conclusion
85(3)
Organized Interests and Lobbying in the EU
88(23)
Introduction: identifying organized interests
89(1)
Types of actor
90(5)
Private economic interests
90(1)
Public interest bodies
91(1)
Governmental actors
92(3)
Emergence and rise of organized interests at the EU level
95(3)
Organized interests at work
98(7)
Lobbying the Commission
98(2)
Lobbying the European Parliament
100(2)
Successful lobbying
102(3)
Conclusion
105(6)
Key Policies
111(25)
Introduction: policies in the EU
112(2)
Key features of EU policies
114(5)
Differences between national and EU policies
114(4)
The primacy of economic integration
118(1)
Market-building policies
119(5)
Competition policy
122(1)
Commercial (trade) policy
122(1)
Economic and monetary union (EMU)
123(1)
Market-correcting and-cushioning policies
124(5)
Common Agricultural Policy
124(3)
Cohesion policy
127(1)
Environmental and social regulation
128(1)
Polity-building (non-market) policies
129(1)
Comparing EU policy types
130(3)
Conclusion
133(3)
The Policy-Making Process
136(20)
Introduction
137(1)
The main players and the rules of the game
138(1)
Three variants of the policy-making process
139(8)
The Community method
140(3)
The coordination method
143(3)
The intergovernmental method
146(1)
Process and governance
147(4)
The EU policy pendulum
151(2)
Conclusion
153(3)
Governance and Legitimacy
156(21)
Introducing legitimacy and governance in the EU
157(2)
The problem of legitimacy
157(1)
The idea of governance
157(2)
The development of EU governance
159(1)
Understanding legitimacy
160(7)
Procedural criteria: democracy
162(1)
Substantive criteria: performance
163(1)
Congruence criteria: identity
164(3)
Governance and legitimacy: alternative 'solutions'?
167(4)
A United States of Europe? Federalism and constitutionalism
167(1)
Resisting EU governance
168(1)
Promoting and improving EU governance
169(2)
Conclusion
171(6)
EU Enlargement---And Then There Were 28?
177(18)
Introduction: understanding enlargement
178(3)
What is enlargement?
179(2)
The staircase to membership: application to accession
181(6)
Steps 1-4: first moves
181(1)
Step 5: the accession negotiations
182(2)
Steps 6 and 7: reaching the top
184(3)
The EU's fifth enlargement round
187(5)
Foreign policy dimension
187(1)
Internal policy dimension
188(4)
Conclusion
192(3)
The EU as a Global Actor
195(21)
Introducing European foreign policy
196(3)
Development
196(1)
Key features
197(2)
The national `system' of foreign policies
199(1)
The Community system
200(6)
Commercial (trade) policy
200(2)
Aid and development
202(2)
External impact of `internal' policies
204(2)
The EU system
206(5)
The Common Foreign and Security Policy
207(3)
A European Security and Defence Policy?
210(1)
Theorizing the EU as a global actor
211(1)
Conclusion
212(4)
Conclusion
216(1)
Introduction
217(1)
Three themes
217(1)
Experimentation and change
217(1)
Sharing power and seeking consensus
218(1)
Scope and capacity
219(1)
Explaining the EU
220(1)
International relations approaches
220(1)
A comparative politics approach
221(1)
A public policy approach
222(1)
Where do we go from here?
223(1)
Debating the future of Europe
224(1)
How will it work?
225(2)
Conclusion
227

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