Books in the Journal of European Public Policy Series series

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.

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.

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.

In the years leading up the global financial crisis, the European Union (EU) had emerged as a central actor in global financial governance, almost rivalling the United States in influence. While the USA and the EU continue to dominate financial rule setting in the post-crisis world, the context in which they do so has changed dramatically. Pre-crisis ideas about laissez-faire regulation have been discarded in favour of more interventionist ones. The G20 and the Financial Stability Board have been charged with stronger coordination of global efforts. At the same time, jurisdictions have re-emphasized the need "to get their own regulatory house in order" before committing to further global harmonization. And through banks failures and massive bail-outs, the financial sector - hitherto a driving force behind the cross-border integration of finance - has been reconfigured. This book asks a straightforward question: what have these and other key post-crisis trends in global finance done to the position that the European Union occupies in it? The contributions to this book analyse the link between financial governance in the European Union and on the global level from diverse theoretical angles, and they cover the main issues that will shape the future European role on the global regulatory stage. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

This volume offers a fresh look at the EU¿s foreign economic policies using a principal-agent approach. It provides insights into the EU¿s trade policy, its role in international financial governance, and its involvement in the G8 and the International Accounting Standards Board.This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

This research volume scrutinizes the role of political parties in all European institutions drawing upon elite interviews, case studies and statistical analysis.

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.

Previously published as a special issue of the "Journal of European Public Policy", this book draws on the insights of the literature on agenda setting and policy changes to explore the dynamics of attention allocation and its consequences. It is of interest to students and scholars of policy analysis and public policy.

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 questions, and is intended for students and scholars of the European Union, European politics, and international relations.

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

This book analyses the institutional and administrative achievements of the Lisbon agenda, most ambitious plan of the European Union over the last ten years. It was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

This volume offers a fresh look at the EU¿s foreign economic policies using a principal-agent approach. It provides insights into the EU¿s trade policy, its role in international financial governance, and its involvement in the G8 and the International Accounting Standards Board.This book was published as a special issue of the 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.

Confronts and discusses different conceptions of political representation and their application to the system of multi-level governance in the European Union. This book assesses both the effectiveness and legitimacy of the channels of political representation which have developed in the EU.

European politicians often speak of their efforts to 'manage globalization'. This volume argues that the advocacy of managed globalization goes beyond rhetoric and actually has been a primary driver of major European Union (EU) policies.

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.

Provides an analysis of how the European Union shapes and is shaped by the 'new' trade politics. This book was previously published as a special issue of "The 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.