The Engines of European Integration Delegation, Agency, and Agenda Setting in the EU

by Pollack, Mark A.

• ISBN13: 9780199251186
• ISBN10: 0199251185
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-05-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The European Union is composed of its fifteen member governments, yet these governments have chosen repeatedly to delegate executive, judicial and legislative powers and substantial discretion to supranational institutions such as the Commission, the Court of Justice, and the European Parliament. In The Engines of Integratio, the first full-length study of delegation in the European Union and international politics, Mark Pollack draws on principal-agent analyses of delegation, agency and agenda setting to analyze and explain the delegation of powers by governmental principals to supranational agents, and the role played by those agents in the process of European integration.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	ix
List of Tables	x
Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction: Theory, Hypotheses, and Research Design
Introduction	3	(16)
1. Delegation, Agency, and Agenda Setting in the European Union	19	(56)
I: Delegation and Discretion
2. The Commission as an Agent: Delegation of Executive Power in the European Union	75	(80)
3. The Court of Justice as an Agent: Delegation of Judicial Power in the European Union	155	(48)
4. The European Parliament as an Outlier: Delegation of Legislative Power in the European Union	203	(60)
II: Agency and Agenda Setting
5. Liberalizing Europe: The Commission, the Court, and the Creation of a European Market	263	(60)
6. Regulating Europe: The Commission, the Court, and the Regulation of the European Market	323	(54)
Conclusions
Conclusions: A Europe of Agents, A World of Agents	377	(38)
Appendices	415	(18)
Notes	433	(27)
References	460	(27)
Index	487