From Nation State to Europe? Essays in Honour of Jack Hayward

by Menon, Anand; Wright, Vincent

• ISBN13: 9780199244034
• ISBN10: 0199244030
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-12
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The relationship between the European Union and its member states is complex and continually evolving. This book seeks to explore not only the nature of this relationship, but the broader implications of European integration for the ways in which politics in Europe is studied. It addressesthree major questions. How has European integration affected national politics and public policies? To what extent has the existence of the EU challenged existing approaches to the study of national politics? How appropriate is it to attempt to study the EU using the analytical tools traditionallyused to study nation states? The intention is to consider the impact of European integration both on the nature and the study of politics in western Europe. These questions are addressed by a group of distinguished academics from both Europe and North America. Their findings will be of greatinterest to all those interested in the European Union and in West European politics more generally.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	vii
List of Contributors	viii
Introduction	1	(10)
Anand Menon
I. The EU and its Member States
Monetary Sovereignty, Domestic Policies, and Intergovernmental Accord	11	(18)
Elie Cohen
National Squares and European Circle: The Challenge of Adjustment	29	(17)
Yves Meny
State, Europe, and Republic	46	(14)
Pierre Gremion
Two French Changes	60	(6)
Stanley Hoffmann
The Further Off From England: British Public Opinion and Europe	66	(31)
Hugh Berrington
Rod Hague
II. Social Science and the EU
Policy-Making in the EU: Familiar Ambitions in Unfamiliar Settings	97	(21)
Jeremy Richardson
Constitutional Reform and Treaty Reform in Europe	118	(21)
David Hine
The European Union and the Bureaucratic Mode of Production	139	(19)
Edward C. Page
Image and Illusion in the Design of the EMU	158	(17)
James Forder
III. The EU and Social Science
Interacting States	175	(20)
Bruno Jobert
Breaking Open Black Boxes: The Implications for Sociological Theory of European Integration	195	(19)
Colin Crouch
The Evolution of Economic Policy-Making in the European Union	214	(32)
Peter Hall
In lieu of a Conclusion	246	(7)
Anand Menon
Index	253