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| adam_text | Contents
List of Tables and Figures
xiv
Preface to the Second Edition
xvii
Preface to the First Edition
xviii
List of Abbreviations
xxi
1
Introduction: Explaining the
EU
Political System
1
The
EU: a
Political System but not a State
2
How the
EU
Political System Works
5
Actors, Institutions and Outcomes: the Basics of Modern
Political Science
9
Theories of European Integration and
EU
Politics
14
Allocation of Policy Competences in the
EU: a
Constitutional Settlement
18
Structure of the Book
23
PART I GOVERNMENT
2
Executive Politics
27
Theories of Executive Power, Delegation and Discretion
27
Government by the Council and the Member States
31
Treaties and treaty reforms: deliberate and unintended
delegation
32
The European Council:
EU
policy leadership and
the open method of coordination
35
National coordination of
EU
policy: fusion
and Europeanization
38
Government by the Commission
40
A cabinet: the
EU
core executive
41
A bureaucracy: the
EU
civil service
46
Regulators: the
EU
quangos
49
Comitology: Interface of the
EU
Dual Executive
52
The committee procedures
53
Interinstitutional conflict in the choice and operation of
the procedures
53
Democratic Control of the
EU
Executive
59
Political accountability: selection and censure of the
Commission
59
vii
viii Contents
Administrative
accountability: parliamentary scrutiny and
transparency
62
Explaining the Organization of Executive Power in the
EU 65
Demand for El] government: selective delegation
by the member states
65
Supply of
EU
government: Commission preferences,
entrepreneurship
and capture
67
Conclusion: the Politics of a Dual Executive
69
3
Legislative Politics
72
Theories of Legislative Coalitions and Organization
72
Development of the Legislative System of the
EU 76
Legislative Politics in the Council
79
Agenda organization: the presidency, sectoral councils and
committees
80
Voting and coalition politics in the Council
83
Legislative Politics in the European Parliament
89
МЕР
behaviour: reelection versus promotion and policies
89
Agenda organization: leaderships, parties and committees
90
Coalition formation
96
Legislative Bargaining between the Council and the EP
99
Theoretical models of
EU bicameralism 103
Empirical evidence ofEP power
106
Conclusion: Complex but Familiar Politics
109
4
Judicial Politics 111
Political Theories of Constitutions and Courts
111
The
EU
Legal System and the European Court of Justice
115
Composition and operation of the European Court of
Justice
117
Jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice
119
Constitutionalization of the European Union
121
Direct effect:
EU
law as the law of the land for national
citizens
121
Supremacy:
EU
law as the higher law of the land
122
Integration through law, and economic constitutionalism
123
State-like properties: external sovereignty and internal
coercion
124
Kompetenz-Kompetenz:
judicial review of competence
conflicts
126
Penetration of
EU
Law into National Legal Systems
128
Quantitative: national courts use of ECJ preliminary rulings
128
Qualitative:
national courts acceptance of the
EU
legal
system
131
Contents ix
Explanations of
EU
Judicial Politics
134
Legal formalism and legal cultures
134
Activism by the European Court of justice
136
Strategic national courts: judicial empowerment and
inter court competition
137
Private interests: the other interlocutors of the EC]
138
Strategic member state governments
140
Conclusion: Unknown Destination or Emerging Equilibrium?
142
PART II POLITICS
5
Public Opinion
147
Theories of the Social Bases of Politics
147
Public Support for the European Union: End of the
Permissive Consensus
149
More or Less Integration: Europe Right or Wrong?
151
National divisions
152
Transnational conflicts: class interests
157
Other transnational divisions: age, education, gender,
religion and elite versus mass
161
What the
EU
Should Do: Europe Right or Left?
166
The Electoral Connection: Putting the Two Dimensions
Together
170
Conclusion: the
EU as a
Plural Society
173
6
Democracy, Parties and Elections
175
Democracy: Choosing Parties, Leaders and Policies
175
The Democratic Deficit Debate
177
Parties: Competition and Organization
180
National parties and Europe
181
Parties at the European level
186
Elections: EP Elections and
EU Referendums 192
EP
elections: national or European contests?
192
Referendums
on
EU
membership and treaty reforms
196
Towards a More Democratic
EU? 202
A more majoritarian and/or powerful parliament
202
Election of the Commission: parliamentary or presidential?
203
Conclusion: Towards Democratic
EU
Government?
206
7
Interest Representation
208
Theories of Interest Group Politics
208
Lobbying Europe: Interest Groups and
EU
Policy-Making
211
Business interests: the large firm as a political actor
213
Trade unions, public interests and social movements
216
Territorial interests: at the heart of multilevel governance
220
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Contents
National
Interests and the Consociational Cartel
223
Explaining the Pattern of Interest Representation
225
Demand for representation: globalization and
Europeanization
225
Supply of access: policy expertise and legislative bargaining
227
Conclusion: a Mix of Representational Styles
230
PART
Ш
POLICY-MAKING
8
Regulation of the Single Market
235
Theories of Regulation
235
Deregulation via Negative Integration: the Single Market
and Competition Policies
239
The single market
239
Competition policies
242
New liberalization methods: the open method of
coordination and the Lamfalussy process
245
The impact of deregulatory policies: liberalization and
regulatory competition
249
Reregulation via Positive Integration: Environmental and
Social Policies
251
Environmental policy
251
Social policy
255
The
EU reregulatory
regime: between harmonization and
voluntarism
260
Explaining
EU
Regulatory Policies
261
The demand for regulation: intergovernmental bargaining
262
The demand for regulation: private interests and Euro-
pluralism
264
The supply of regulation: policy
entrepreneurship,
ideas
and decision framing
266
Institutional constraints: legislative rules and political
structure
267
Conclusion:
Neoliberalism
Meets the Social Market
269
9
Expenditure Policies
271
Theories of Public Expenditure and Redistribution
271
The Budget of the European Union
275
Revenue and the own-resources system
276
Expenditure
277
The annual budget procedure: the power of the purse
278
The Common Agricultural Policy
281
Objectives and operation of the CAP
281
Problems with the CAP
283
Contents xi
Reform
of the CAP: towards a new type of (welfare)
policy
283
Making agricultural policy: can the iron triangle be
broken?
285
Cohesion Policy
289
Operation of the policy
289
Impact: a supply-side policy with uncertain convergence
implications
292
Making cohesion policy: Commission, governments and
regions
294
Other internal policies
295
Research and development
296
Infrastructure
298
Social integration and a European civil society
298
Explaining
EU
Expenditure Policies
300
Intergovernmental bargaining: national cost—benefit
calculations
300
Private interests: farmers, regions, scientists and
Euro-pork
303
Commission
entrepreneurship:
promoting multilevel
governance
304
Institutional rules: unanimity, majority, agenda-setting
and the balanced-budget rule
305
Conclusion: a Set of Linked Welfare Bargains
307
10
Economic and Monetary Union
309
The Political Economy of Monetary Union
309
Development of Economic and Monetary Union in Europe
313
The
Delors
Report
313
The Maastricht Treaty design
314
Who qualifies? Fudging the convergence criteria
316
Resolving other issues: appeasing the unhappy French
government
319
Explaining Economic and Monetary Union
320
Economic rationality: economic integration and a core
optimal currency area
320
Interstate bargaining: a Franco-German deal
323
Agenda-setting by non-state interests: the Commission
and central bankers
325
The power of ideas: the monetarist policy consensus
326
Monetary and Economic Policy in EMU
328
Independence of the ECB: establishing credibility and
reputation
328
ECB decision-making in the setting of interest rates
331
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Inflation
targets: ECB-EcoFin relations
333
National fiscal policies: the Stability and Growth Pact
334
European fiscal policies: budget transfers and tax
harmonization
336
Labour market flexibility: mobility, structural reforms
and wage agreements
338
The external impact of EM
U
341
Conclusion: the Need for Policy Coordination
342
11
Citizen Freedom and Security Policies
344
Theories of Citizenship and the State
344
EU
Freedom and Security Policies
346
From free movement of workers to an area of freedom,
security and justice
347
Free movement of persons
348
Fundamental rights and freedoms
350
Immigration and asylum policies
353
Police and judicial cooperation
356
Explaining
EU
Freedom and Security Policies
359
Exogenous pressure: growing international migration
and crime
359
Government interests: from high politics to regulatory
failure and voters demands
364
Bureaucrats strategies: bureau-shaping and the control
paradigm
367
Supranational
entrepreneurship:
supplying credibility
and accountability
369
Conclusion: Skeleton of a Pan-European State
372
12
Foreign Policies
374
Theories of International Relations and Political Economy
374
External Economic Policies: Free Trade, Not Fortress
Europe
378
The pattern of
EU
trade
378
The Common Commercial Policy
379
Multilateral trade agreements:
GATT
and the WTO
382
Bilateral preferential trade agreements
384
Development policies: aid and trade in everything but
arms
385
External Political Relations: Towards an
EU
Foreign Policy
387
Development of foreign policy cooperation and
decision-making
387
Policy success and failure: haunted by the capability-
expectations gap
393
Contents xiii
Explaining the Foreign Policies of the
EU 395
Global economic and geopolitical (inter)dependence
396
Intransigent national security identities and interests
398
Domestic economic interests:
E U
governments and
multinational firms
400
Institutional rules: decision-making procedures and
Commission agenda-setting
402
Conclusion: a Soft Superpower ?
404
13
Conclusion: Rethinking the European Union
406
What Political Science Teaches Us About the
EU 406
Operation of government, politics and policy-making in
the
EU 406
Connections between government, politics and policy-
making in the
EU 409
What the
EU
Teaches Us About Political Science
412
Appendix: Decision-Making Procedures in the European Union
415
Bibliography
422
Index
475
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