Neoliberal European Governance and Beyond The Limits of a Political Project

by van Apeldoorn, Bastiaan; Drahokoupil, Jan; Horn, Laura

• ISBN13: 9780230537095
• ISBN10: 023053709X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of Contents

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Towards a Critical Political Economy of European Governance	p. 1
The Nature and Limits of the European Neoliberal Project
The Contradictions of 'Embedded Neoliberalism' and Europe's Multi-level Legitimacy Crisis: The European Project and its Limits	p. 21
Neoliberal European Governance and the Politics of Welfare State Retrenchment: A Critique of the New Malthusians	p. 44
Geopolitics and Neoliberalism; US Power and the Limits of European Autonomy	p. 64
Case Studies of European Socio-Economic Regulation
Global Finance and the European Economy: The Struggle over Banking Regulation	p. 87
'New Europeans' for the 'New European Economy': Citizenship and the Lisbon Agenda	p. 106
Organic Intellectuals at Work? The High Level Group of Company Law Experts in European Corporate Governance Regulation	p. 125
The Widening of Neoliberal Governance: Transnational Capitalism in Central and Eastern Europe
Corporate Tax Reform in Neoliberal Europe: Central and Eastern Europe as a Template for Deepening the Neoliberal European Integration Project?	p. 143
Race to the Bottom? Transnational Companies and Reinforced Competition in the Enlarged European Union	p. 163
The Rise of the Competition State in the Visegrad Four: Internationalization of the State as a Local Project	p. 187
Contesting Neoliberal Governance: Resisting Restructuring in National and Transnational Arenas
A National Case-Study of Embedded Neoliberalism and its Limits: The Dutch Political Economy and the 'No' to the European Constitution	p. 211
Globalization and Regional Integration: The Possibilities and Problems for Trade Unions to Resist Neoliberal Restructuring in Europe	p. 232
References	p. 250
Index	p. 285
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