Making the Emu

The Politics of Budgetary Surveillance and the Enforcement of Maastricht
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-923869-9
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 395 g

The Maastricht Treaty and the Stability Growth Pact demand that EU member states comply with their famous deficit and debt requirements of three and sixty per cent of GDP. Yet, how can the EU's leaders be certain that these targets are met? Is a three per cent deficit in Belgium equivalent to one in Italy or France?

Making the EMU explores how the Treaty's budgetary surveillance procedure monitors member state budgetary policies, harmonizes their budgetary data, and effectively determines which member states qualified for member status and are subject to the Pact's sanctions. This book provides the first examination of how the EU entrusted the credibility of these critical budgetary figures to a relatively minor European Commission agency, and what effect the surveillance procedure has on the making of the EMU and the enforcement of Maastricht.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Savage, James D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Unternehmensfinanzierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Europäische Union, Europa: Wirtschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geldwirtschaft, Währungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensfinanzen Finanzierung, Investition, Leasing

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Enforcing Maastricht: The Significance of Treaty Surveillance

- 2: Treaty Delegation and the Institutional Structure of Surveillance

- 3: Designing a Compliance Information System: ESA and the Techniques of Surveillance

- 4: European Statistical Case Law for Stage II of Convergence 1994-97

- 5: European Statistical Case Law for Stage III Monetary Union 1998-2004

- 6: Credibility, Institutionalization, and Europeanization

- Appendix: Other Eurostat Sage II Decisions 1995-97

Über Autor(innen)

James D. Savage is author of Making the EMU: The Politics of Budgetary Surveillance and The Enforcement of Maastricht (Oxford Univ. Press); Funding Science in America: Congress, Universities, and the Politics of the Academic Pork Barrel (Cambridge Univ. Press); and Balanced Budgets and American Politics (Cornell Univ. Press). Articles appearing in such journals as the Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, and Public Administration Review. Receipient of the APSA's Harold D. Lasswell disseration prize, Olin-Bradley post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University, Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs fellowship, Fulbright-European Union Affairs fellowship, and other fellowships and awards. James D. Savage is currently Professor of Politics, University of Virginia.