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9780415268356

Widening the European Union: Politics of Institutional Change and Reform

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    9780415268356

  • ISBN10:

    0415268354

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-10-18
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

The proposed enlargement of the European Union to include countries from Central and Eastern Europe has become an important political issue. This collection focuses on those institutional reforms of the Union that may be necessary to make the enlargement possible.

Table of Contents

List of tables
vii
List of figures
ix
List of contributors
x
Preface xv
PART I Introduction 1(38)
Enlargement and reform in the European Union
3(18)
Bernard Steunenberg
Rational choice and institutional change: an overview of current theories
21(18)
Keith Dowding
PART II Constitutional aspects of enlargement 39(80)
Constitutional issues regarding European Union expansion
41(17)
Dennis C. Mueller
Enlargement of the European Union: determining the boundaries of an optimal legal area
58(22)
Hans-Jorg Schmidt-Trenz
Dieter Schmidtchen
The politics of institutional change: diverging goals for reforming the European legislature
80(17)
Thomas Konig
Thomas Brauninger
An even wider Union: the effects of enlargement on EU decision-making
97(22)
Bernard Steunenberg
PART III Reforming European Union decision-making 119(62)
Enlargement and the Council of Ministers
121(23)
Jan-Erik Lane
Reinert Maeland
Enlargement and the European budget: budgetary decision-making and fiscal constraints
144(19)
Lars P. Feld
Gebhard Kirchgassner
Hannelore Weck-Hannemann
Enlargement and the European Central Bank
163(18)
Jordi Bacaria
Georgios E. Chortareas
Andreas P. Kyriacou
PART IV Dynamics of widening 181(58)
A never-ending success story? The dynamics of widening and deepening European integration
183(19)
Gerald Schneider
How political parties, rather than member states, are building the European Union
202(22)
Josep M. Colomer
A federal European constitution for an enlarged European Union: insights from constitutional economics
224(15)
Friedrich Schneider
PART V Conclusion 239(10)
Changing times: the future of enlargement of the European Union and the theoretical challenges ahead
241(8)
Bernard Steunenberg
Antoaneta Dimitrova
Index 249

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