The European Union And The Regulation Of Media Markets

by Alison Harcourt

• ISBN13: 9780719066443
• ISBN10: 0719066441
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2005-05-06
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

This book investigates the processes by which European Union institutions have sought to regulate national media markets, both through European level initiatives and influences upon national policy-making. This provides an excellent case study for observing new modes of EU governance. Because of this sector's political and cultural significance at national levels, there have been limits to the amount of European legislation that has been deemed to be acceptable, and limits have been encountered by the European institutions in question. The book argues that the institutions have therefore found other ways of governing media markets -- the initiation of European level fora, the decentralization of decision-making bodies, presenting best practices solutions to domestic policy problems, and the Europeanization of national policies through direct action. This book provides the first in-depth empirical analysis of new modes of EU governance with a specific industry case study, and also shows how the European institutions have between them engineered processes of policy convergence at national levels.

Author Biography

Alison Harcourt is Research Fellow in the Centre for European Studies at the University of Bradford.

Table of Contents

Tables and figures	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Abbreviations	xiii
Introduction	1	(8)
1 The evolution of EU media market regulation	9	(13)
2 Governing by judges	22	(19)
3 Competition law, beyond the boundaries of the politically possible	41	(21)
4 The Commission, the Parliament and media market regulation	62	(32)
5 Interest group participation in the policy process	94	(23)
6 Whither a European media market?	117	(41)
7 Engineering Europeanisation at the national level	158	(41)
8 Conclusion	199	(15)
Appendix 1: European Union legislation governing media markets, 1989-2004	214	(4)
Appendix 2: European Court of Justice and Court of First Instance cases, 1974-2003	218	(4)
Appendix 3: Directorate General for Competition cases, 1989-2004	222	(7)
Appendix 4: Treaties of the European Union	229	(1)
Appendix 5: European Commission Questionnaires	230	(6)
References	236	(18)
Index	254