Books in the Journal of European Public Policy Series series

Few events over the past few decades have given rise to an amount of debate and speculation concerning the state of the European Union and the future of European integration as the economic and financial crisis that began in 2007. The contributions in this book, using various theoretical lenses on European integration, explain why Europe¿s Economic and Monetary Union did not implode as a result of the crisis but further integrated instead.This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

This book offers a state-of-the-art-analysis of the study of differentiated integration in the European Union. It unravels the nature of this notion, and demonstrates the need to study differentiation as a permanent and normal feature of European integration.This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

This publication focuses on two main lines of inquiry: the relationship between federalism and democracy, with particular focus on representation, and the relationship between the governments of federal systems, looking especially at intergovernmental relations. It was originally published as a special issue of Journal of European Public Policy.

Whereas `democracy¿ assumes a single demos or people, `demoi-cracy¿ refers to democratic government and governance in a polity constituted by separate peoples. Since the European Union consists of many demoi with different collective identities, largely separate public spheres, and a predominantly national political infrastructure, demoi-cracy is an appropriate standard for the analysis and evaluation of democracy in the EU. This volume brings together analyses of a broad range of institutions and policies of the EU from the perspective of demoi-cracy. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

Presenting an innovative analysis of interest group lobbying in the European Union by drawing on an unprecedented and comprehensive large-N research design, Legislative Lobbying in Context studies the effect of policy-related and institutional factors on interest group mobilization, strategies and influence. The main goal of the book is to analyse strategies, framing and influence processes for a set of 125 legislative proposals submitted by the European Commission, in an effort to better understand the involvement of interest organizations in the decision-making process of the EU.This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

This book is a systematic and broad assessment of the EU's eastern enlargement in 2004-2007. The chapters originally appeared in a special issue in the Journal of European Public Policy.

This book aims to move beyond establishing that the EU influences global regulation towards a focus on the EU's active efforts, both bilateral and multilateral, to shape regulations beyond its borders. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

This book makes a case for the systematic study of political time in the EU - both as an independent and a dependent variable - and demonstrates how a time-centred analysis contributes to central debates in the study of the EU. This book was originally published as a special issue of Journal of European Public Policy.

This volume assembles the most renowned scholars in the field to address the key themes and challenges that governance by and with agencies in the EU poses to effective and legitimate policy-making. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

The European Court of Justice has long played a powerful role promoting deeper European integration, but today the Court faces unprecedented challenges and criticism. This book explores whether the ECJ can sustain its role as a motor of integration in the face of these countervailing forces. It was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

This book reorients the study of European foreign and security policy towards the question of democracy. Blending insights from international relations and democratic theory it aims at enhancing our understanding of the issues at stake. This book was originally published as a special issue of Journal of European Public Policy

Under what conditions does the internal cohesiveness of the European Union determine its external effectiveness on the world stage? This book asks this question, investigating the frequent political assumption that the more cohesive the EU presents itself to the world, the more effective it is in achieving its goals. Contributions to this book explore this theory from a range of perspectives, from trade to foreign policy, and highlight complex patterns between internal cohesiveness and external effectiveness. These are simplified into three possible configurations: internal cohesiveness has a positive impact on external effectiveness; internal cohesiveness has no impact on external effectiveness; and internal cohesiveness has a negative impact on external effectiveness. The international context in which the EU operates, which includes the bargaining configuration and the policy arena, functions as an intervening variable that helps us to explain variation in these causal links. The book also launches a research agenda aimed at explaining these patterns more systematically and determining the marginal impact of cohesiveness on effectiveness. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

The character of international trade has changed dramatically over the past twenty years. Previously published as a special issue of The Journal of European Public Policy, this volume provides a `state of the art¿ study of the new trade politics.

Gathering top scholars in the field, this volume explores the relationship between the concept of political power and the role of ideas in politics and public policy research.

The last decades have witnessed a significant shift in policy competencies away from central governments in Europe. The reallocation of competencies spans over three dimensions: upwards, sideways, and downwards. This collection takes the dispersion of powers as a starting point and seeks to assess how the actors involved cope with the new configurations. Chapters discuss the conceptualization of power dispersion and highlight the ways in which we add to this research agenda. Some general conclusions are also outlined, indicating future avenues of research. Taken together, the collection contributes answers to the challenge of defining and measuring ΓÇô in a comparative way ΓÇô the control and co-ordination mechanisms which power dispersion generates. In sum, the collection explores the tension between political actors'' quest for autonomy and the acknowledgement of their interdependence whilst revealing how, as power dispersion deepens, central governments have sought to both manage and limit it. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

This volume analyses and explains variation in the EU's ability to influence regulations beyond its borders. It was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

Previously published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy, this study revisits the work of the late Ernst Haas, assessing his relevance for contemporary European integration and its disparities.

This book puts the organizational base of EU policy-making centre stage. It asks three crucial questions about recent administrative reform of the European Commission: why was such a comprehensive reform possible; what are its specific implications for the Commission as an organization; what is the likely impact for the policy process?

This volume offers a thematic and forward-looking survey of cutting-edge research on EU negotiation dynamics, identifying findings to date and setting an empirical and methodological agenda for future research. This book was based on a special issue of Journal of European Public Policy.

The character of international trade has changed dramatically over the past twenty years. Previously published as a special issue of The Journal of European Public Policy, this volume provides a `state of the art¿ study of the new trade politics.

This volume brings together experts on both migration and political parties ¿ fields that have not always interacted as much as they could or should have done ¿ in order to study the impacts, dilemmas and trade-offs involved in establishing an immigration policy.

EU Lobbying: Empirical and Theoretical Studies offers an analysis of large empirical studies of interest group politics and Lobbying in Europe. It assesses the logic of collective and direct action, the logic of access and influence, the logic of venue-shopping and alliance building.

To what extent and in which direction can we empirically observe a convergence of national policies? In which areas and for which patterns of policy is convergence more or less pronounced? This text addresses these central questions with clarity and rigour.

The book advances the state of the European Union's (EU) policy theory by systematically comparing the limitations and strengths of seven frameworks of the policy process and by offering a strategy to develop robust research agendas based on how each framework deals with complexity. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

This volume brings together contributions from a range of methodological perspectives in order to take stock of twenty years of practising and studying codecision and to examine the procedure's long-term implications for the EU's institutions, politics and policies. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.