Making Policy in Europe

by Svein S Andersen

• ISBN13: 9780761967514
• ISBN10: 0761967516
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-02
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Summary

This Second Edition of Making Policy in Europe is fully revised and expanded to provide the most up-to-date introduction to the study of policymaking in the European Union (EU). The first part of the book introduces the different perspectives to study of the EU as a political system, and provides a framework for the study of the main actors and institutions in the decision-making process from transnational lobbying within Brussels to the implementation of EU law in national member states. Part two introduces each of the main sectoral policy areas. The common "market" is introduced and reviewed before students are provided with detailed studies of policies and policy-making in telecommunications, the environment, energy, education, immigration, and policing. In each case the complex interaction between different interests and actors at different levels in the EU apparatus is richly illustrated and the future prospects for further integration fully examined. The final part of the book looks at the future economic and political structure of the EU and the direction of contemporary studies of the EU and European integration. A completely new chapter reviews European monetary union, another looks at the important enlargement question, and, finally, the editors review the wider implications for Europe and the EU political system. This book will be essential reading for another generation of students of the EU, European pubic policy and European integration.

Table of Contents

Notes on the contributors	vii
Preface	x
List of abbreviations	xi
Map of European Union	xiii
1 Policy-Making in the European Union
Introduction: the EU as a new political system	3	(17)
Sevin S. Andersen
Kjell A. Eliassen
Formal processes: EU institutions and actors	20	(24)
Svein S. Andersen
Kjell A. Eliassen
Nick Sitter
Informal processes: lobbying, actor strategies, coalitions and dependencies	44	(19)
Svein S. Andersen
Kjell A. Eliassen
2 European Policy Studies
Rail and transport policy: National paradigms and supranational structures	63	(23)
Frank Dobbin
Telecommunications policy: Interest convergence and globalization	86	(20)
Kjell A. Eliassen
Marit S. Marino
Energy policy: Interest interaction and supranational authority	106	(18)
Svein S. Andersen
Educational policy: Institutionalization and multi-level governance	124	(16)
Erik Beukel
Policy on justice and home affairs: From high to low politics	140	(27)
Ellen Ahnfelt
Johan From
3 The Future of the EU and European Integration
European Monetary Union: Economic versus political integration and the limits of supranationalism	167	(20)
Miriam L. Campanella
The Common Foreign and Security Policy: Limits of intergovernmentalism and the search for a global role	187	(19)
Helene Sjursen
EU enlargement: Interests, issues and the need for institutional reform	206	(23)
Finn Laursen
Conclusion: Making policy in the new Europe	229	(13)
Svein S. Andersen
Kjell A. Eliassen
Chronology of events	242	(10)
Bibliography	252	(34)
Index	286