Constructing a Policy-Making State?

Policy Dynamics in the EU
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-960410-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 816 g

Constructing a Policy-Making State? sets out to examine the processes by which Europeanization takes place. Europeanization is defined as the process by which the key decisions about public policies are gradually transferred to the European level (or for new policy areas, emerge at the European level). This is in contrast to definitions of Europeanization which focus on the adaption of member states to European public policies. Thus, the main focus is whether a European Union 'policy-making state' is being created via changes in the distribution of power between member states and the European level institutions over time. In addition to several overview chapters (such as on agenda setting in the EU), there are twelve sectoral studies which analyse the differing trajectories and outcomes of the Europeanization process and the extent to which the European Union can make 'authoritative allocations'. The case studies have been selected in order to illustrate the degree of cross-sectoral variation in the process of Europeanization, from sectors which have yet to see very much Europeanization, such as health, to sectors such as competition policy which are almost fully Europeanized. The book is consciously multi-theoretic in its approach, drawing on a range of theories and concepts, from theories of European integration, to theories of public policy processes.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of political science especially those interested in EU studies, public policy, and policy making.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Richardson, Jeremy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Contents

- Preface

- Part I

- 1: Jeremy Richardson: Supranational State Building in the European Union

- 2: Sebastiaan Princen: Agenda-Setting and the Formation of an EU Policy-Making State

- Part II

- 3: Michael Blauberger: Competition Policy: the Evolution of Commission Control

- 4: Geoffrey Dudley and Jeremy Richardson: From the Treaty of Paris to Globalization: Steel and its 'Escape' from EU Governance

- 5: Carsten Daugbjerg: Globalization and Internal Policy Dynamics in the Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy

- 6: Andrew Jordan, David Benson, Rüdiger Wurzel, and Anthony Zito: Environmental Policy: Governing by Multiple Instruments?

- 7: Sonia Mazey: Policy Entrepreneurship, Group Mobilisation and the Creation of a New Policy Domain: Women's Rights and the European Union

- Part III

- 8: Burkard Eberlein: Inching Towards a Common Energy Policy: Entrepreneurship, Incrementalism, and Windows of Opportunity

- 9: Dermot Hodson: The EMU Paradox: Centralization and Decentralization in EU Macroeconomic Policy

- 10: Emiliano Grossman and Patrick Leblond: Financial Regulation in Europe: From the Battle of the Systems to a Jacobinist EU

- 11: Arne Niemann: The Dynamics of EU Migration Policy: from Maastricht to Lisbon

- 12: Andreas Dür: The EU's Foreign Economic Policies: Limits to Delegation

- 13: Michael Smith: Developing a 'Comprehensive Approach' to International Security: Institutional Learning and the CSDP

- 14: Scott Greer: Polity-Making without Policy-Making: European Union Health Care Services Policy

- 15: Gerda Falkner: Promoting Policy Dynamism: The Pathways Interlinking Neofunctionalism and Integovernmentalism

- 16: Christoph Knill and Jale Tosun: Governance Institutions and Policy Implementation in the European Union

- 17: Jeremy Richardson: The Onward March of Europeanization: Tectonic Movement and Seismic Events

Über Autor(innen)

Richardson, Jeremy
Jeremy Richardson was formerly the Nuffield Professor of Comparative European Politics at Oxford, having previously help Politics Chairs as Essex, Warwick, and Strathclyde Universities. He founded the Journal of European Public Policy, which he still edits. In 2011 he received a Lifetime Award from the European Union Studies Association (USA) for his contribution to EU studies. He has published widely on the public policy process in Britain, Sweden and Norway, as well as the EU. He is currently an Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College Oxford and holds a Research Chair at the National Centre for Research on Europe, at the University of Canterbury, NZ.