Participation and Policy-Making in the European Union

by Wallace, Helen; Young, Alasdair R.

• ISBN13: 9780198280606
• ISBN10: 0198280602
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-12-04
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

Who really participates in the European policy process? This study by a multinational team of experts examines the interplay between organized interests, member governments, and the European institutions to show that emerging patterns of European governance are starting to produce some policy outcomes that are different from those generated in national settings.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	ix	(1)
List of Tables	x	(1)
List of Abbreviations	xi	(4)
Contributors	xv	(2)
Introductory Foreword	xvii
KEITH RICHARDSON
1. Introduction	1	(16)
HELEN WALLACE
2. The Growth and Differentiation of Multi-Level Networks: A Corporatist Mega-Bureaucracy or an Open City?	17	(25)
WOLFGANG WESSELS
3. Organized Interests in European Integration: The Evolution of a New Type of Governance?	42	(27)
BEATE KOHLER-KOCH
4. Making and Enforcing Regulatory Policy in the Single Market	69	(22)
ERNESTO PREVIDI
5. The Commission as an Actor: An Anthropologist's View	91	(25)
IRENE BELLIER
6. Organizing Industrial Coalitions: A Challenge for the Future?	116	(25)
MARIA GREEN COWLES
7. The Interplay of Corporate, National, and European Interests	141	(18)
ELIE COHEN
8. The Changing Dynamic of EU-Industry Relations: Lessons from the Liberalization of European Car and Airline Markets	159	(26)
PETER HOLMES
FRANCIS MCGOWAN
9. Big Firms as Political Actors: Corporate Power and the Governance of the European Consumer Electronics Industry	185	(21)
ALAN CAWSON
10. Consumption without Representation? Consumers in the Single Market	206	(29)
ALASDAIR R. YOUNG
11. The Kaleidoscope of European Policy-Making: Shifting Patterns of Participation and Influence	235	(16)
HELEN WALLACE
ALASDAIR R. YOUNG
References	251	(18)
Index	269