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Informed by and against the backdrop of the 2019 European Parliament (EP) elections, this innovative book provides a critical assessment of where Europe stands in terms of the quest for achieving democratic legitimacy.
This book examines and investigates the legitimacy of the European Union by acknowledging the importance of variation across actors, institutions, audiences, and context.
Including case studies that discuss both successful and failed examples of informal action in European integration, this book assembles cutting-edge research by both early-career and more experienced scholars from all over Europe to fill this lacuna.
This book offers comprehensive coverage of various aspects of financial accountability around the EU budget - how it is spent via policies, how institutions engage in checking policy performance, and therein, the issues of monitoring, controlling, auditing, scrutinising and communicating budgetary expenditure.
Examines the governance of - and politics of regulating - financial services in the EU. This title provides an analysis since the establishment of Economic and Monetary Union and the Financial Services Action Plan, and assesses the EU response to the global financial crisis.
Analyzes the impact and effectiveness of EU foreign policy on conflict resolution. This book explores the principal determinants of conflict dynamics in Cyprus, Turkey, Serbia-Montenegro, Israel-Palestine and Georgia in order to assess the impact of EU contractual ties on them.
Fills a gap in academic literature on the politics and public policy aspects of central banking in Europe, by conducting a theoretically-informed and empirically-grounded analysis of central banking governance before and after the establishment of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).
Analyzes the development of the European Parliament's (EP) committees and their relationship with political parties in the light of the EP's increased legislative role.
Investigates the existence of a dichotomy between the capacity of European Commission committee governance to improve system effectiveness and provide efficiency gains as well as sustain democratic credentials. This book asks whether legitimacy and efficiency may be reconciled or become partially compatible in European Commission committees.
Examines the complex negotiation processes surrounding intergovernmental conferences in the European Union. By presenting a quantitative study of the Intergovernmental Conference of 1996/7 prior to the Treaty of Amsterdam, this book argues that these negotiations reveal the major challenges of European integration.
Offers a sociologically grounded explanation of the changing features of governance and democracy within Europe in an era that empowers new actors, and in the context of broader changes in society.
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