A-state-of-the-art and comprehensive survey covering all aspects of politics in Western Europe. The volume brings together the very best scholars in the field from the UK, continental Europe and North America.

Notes on Contributors

vii

List of Abbreviations

ix

Foreword

xi

Preface

xiii

1 Institutions and the Evolution of European Democracy

1

(14)

Peter A. Hall

2 Natonal Courts and Community Law

15

(24)

Paul Craig

PART I: THE CORE EXECUTIVE

3 On Studying Governments

39

(22)

Rudy B. Andeweg

4 What is New about Governance and Why does it Matter?

61

(13)

R.A.W. Rhodes

5 Executives in Comparative Context

74

(18)

Klaus H. Goetz

6 The Political System of the European Union

92

(21)

Neill Nugent and William Paterson

PART II: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

7 Dismantling and Rebuilding the Weberian state

113

(15)

B. Guy Peters

8 The Age of Administrative Reforms

128

(11)

Sabino Cassese

9 The European Administration: Between Europeanization and Domestication

139

(23)

Hussein Kassim

10 Europeanization and the Persistence of Administrative Systems

162

(17)

Edward C. Page

PART III: PARTIES AND ORGANIZED INTERESTS

11 The Decline of Party?

179

(13)

Gordon smith

12 Comparing Economic Interest Organizations

192

(16)

Colin Crouch

13 Interest Groups and the Brussels Bureaucracy

208

(23)

Sonia Mazey and Jeremy Richardson

PART IV: DEMOCRACY AND POPULAR PARTICIPATION

14 Contentious Politics in Western Europe and the United states

231

(19)

Sidney Tarrow

15 From Popular Dissatisfaction to Populism: Democracy, Constitutionalism, and Corruption

250

(14)

Yves Mény

16 Democratization in the European Periphery

264

(33)

Sonia Alonso and José Maria Maravall

PART V: PUBLIC POLICY

17 The Politics of Regulation and European Regulatory Institutions

297

(16)

Giandomenico Majone

18 From Industrial Policy to a Regulatory State: Contrasting Institutional Change in Britain and France

313

(17)

Mark Thatcher

19 Monetary Policy and the Euro

330

(16)

Loukas Tsoukalis

20 Recasting European Welfare States

346

(23)

Maurizio Ferrera, Anton Hemerijck, and Martin Rhodes

PART VI: THE STATE

21 The Changing European state

369

(11)

Wolfgang C. Müller

22 The Changing European State: Pressures from Within

380

(15)

Patrick Le Galès

23 International Relations, International Institutions, and the European state

395

Andrew Hurrell and Anand Menon

Conclusion: Governing Europe 413 Anand Menon

Bibliography

433

(50)

Index

483

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