Comparative Federalism

The European Union and the United States in Comparative Perspective
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-929110-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 746 g

The Convention on the Future of Europe served to galvanize debate about the nature and future developmental trajectory of the European Union. More specifically, it engendered discussion over the degree to which the process resembled that which had occurred in Philadelphia some two hundred years earlier, and, more broadly, over the extent to which the European Union does, or should, resemble the United States. Partly as a consequence of such debates, comparative federalism is now an important topic, with scholarly work comparing the US and EU proliferating rapidly. The present volume seeks to build on and contribute to this growing literature, by developing a systematic comparison of the institutions, policies and developmental patterns of the European Union and the United States.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Menon, Anand

Schain, Martin A.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Europäische Union, Europa: Wirtschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Privatrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Anand Menon and Martin Schain: Introduction

- Part I: Conceptual; Issues, Principles, and Approaches

- 2: Alberta Sbragia: The United States and the European Union: Comparing two Sui Generis Systems

- 3: Anand Menon: The Limits of Comparative Politics: International Relations in the European Union

- Part II. Developmental Perspectives

- 4: Kalypso Nicolaïdes: Constitutionalizing the Federal Vision?

- 5: Theodore Lowi: Eurofederalism: What can the European Union Learn from the United States.

- Part III. Institutions and Processes

- 6: Giandomenico Majone: Federation, Confederation, and Mixed Government: A EU-US Comparison

- 7: Paul Magnette: Comparing Constitutional Change in the United States and the European Union

- 8: Guy Peters: Federalism and Public Administration: the United States and the European Union

- 9: Martin Shapiro: The US Supreme Court and the European Court of Justice Compared

- 10: Daniel Keleman: Federalism and Democratization: The United States and the European Union in Comparative Perspective

- 11: Amie Kreppel: Understanding the European Parliament from a Federalist Perspective: The Legislatures of the United Atates and the European Union Compared

- Part IV. Public Policies

- 12: Nicolas Jabko: The Politics of Central Banking in the United States and the European Union

- 13: Mark Hallerberg: Fiscal Federalism in the United States and the European Union

- 14: Adam Sheingate: Agricultural Biotechnology: Representative Federalism and Regulatory Capacity in the United States and the European Union

- 15: Martin Schain: Immigration Policy

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anand Menon is Professor of European Politics and Director of the European Research Institute at the University of Birmingham. He previously spent ten years as Lecturer in European politics at the University of Oxford, where he was also a Fellow St. Antony's College. Prior to that, he gained his BA M.Phil and D.Phil from the same university.

Martin A. Schain is Professor of Politics, and Director of the Center for European Studies, New York University. He is the author and editor of numerous books on Europe and France, and has also published many scholarly articles and book chapters on politics and immigration in France, Europe and the United States, the politics of the extreme right in France, political parties in France, and trade unions in France and Britain.