European Integration after Amsterdam Institutional Dynamics and Prospects for Democracy

by Neunreither, Karlheinz; Wiener, Antje

• ISBN13: 9780198296416
• ISBN10: 019829641X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-11
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

European integration is at a turning point with implications for all member states and their citizens. The book examines the process of European integration and highlights issues of institutional dynamics and prospects for democracy.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	ix
List of Tables	x
List of Abbreviations	xi
List of Contributors	xiii
Introduction: Amsterdam and Beyond	1	(12)
Antje Wiener
Karlheinz Neunreither
PART I: CHANGING INSTITUTIONS	13	(80)
The Amsterdam Treaty: The Blueprint for the Future Institutional Balance?	15	(21)
Gerda Falkner
Michael Nentwich
The European Commission: A Balancing Act between Autonomy and Dependence	36	(16)
Christian Lequesne
The Slow March of European Legislation: The Implementation of Directives	52	(16)
Giuseppe Ciavarini Azzi
Beyond Amsterdam: Regional Integration as Social Process	68	(25)
Beate Kohler-Koch
PART II: PROSPECTS FOR DEMOCRACY	93	(58)
Executive Selection in the European Union: Does the Commission President Investiture Procedure Reduce the Democratic Deficit?	95	(17)
Simon Hix
Justifying Comitology: The Promise of Deliberation	112	(17)
Jurgen Neyer
Political Representation in the European Union: A Common Whole, Various Wholes, or just a Hole?	129	(22)
Karlheinz Neunreither
PART III: FLEXIBILITY AND THE CHALLENGE OF ENLARGEMENT	151	(88)
Negotiating Flexible Integration in the Amsterdam Treaty	153	(22)
Alexander C.-G. Stubb
Flexibility: A Tool of Integration or a Restraint on Disintegration?	175	(17)
Helen Wallace
Abuses of Asymmetry: Privilege and Exclusion	192	(26)
Peter Leslie
East of Amsterdam: The Implications of the Amsterdam Treaty for Eastern Enlargement	218	(21)
Ulrich Sedelmeier
PART IV: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE	239	(104)
Precedents and Present Events in the European Union: An Institutional Perspective on Treaty Reform	241	(25)
Ulf Sverdrup
A Blairite Treaty: Neo-Liberalism and Regulated Capitalism in the Treaty of Amsterdam	266	(24)
Mark A. Pollack
Constitutional Settlements and the Citizen after the Treaty of Amsterdam	290	(28)
Jo Shaw
The Embedded Acquis Communautaire: Transmission Belt and Prism of New Governance	318	(25)
Antje Wiener
References	343	(36)
Index	379