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Beteilige Person:	Hix, Simon 1968- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	Basingstoke [u.a.] Palgrave Macmillan 2008
Ausgabe:	2. ed., [comprehensively rev. and updated],[Nachdr.]
Schriftenreihe:	The European Union series
Schlagwörter:	Europäische Union Politisches System
Links:	http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=017751853&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
Umfang:	XXII, 489 S. graph. Darst.
ISBN:	9780333961810 9780333961827 0333961811 033396182X

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adam_text	Contents List of Tables and Figures xiv Preface to the Second Edition xvii Preface to the First Edition xviii List of Abbreviations xxi 1 Introduction: Explaining the EU Political System 1 The EU: a Political System but not a State 2 How the EU Political System Works 5 Actors, Institutions and Outcomes: the Basics of Modern Political Science 9 Theories of European Integration and EU Politics 14 Allocation of Policy Competences in the EU: a 'Constitutional Settlement' 18 Structure of the Book 23 PART I GOVERNMENT 2 Executive Politics 27 Theories of Executive Power, Delegation and Discretion 27 Government by the Council and the Member States 31 Treaties and treaty reforms: deliberate and unintended delegation 32 The European Council: EU policy leadership and the 'open method of coordination' 35 National coordination of EU policy: 'fusion' and 'Europeanization' 38 Government by the Commission 40 A cabinet: the EU core executive 41 A bureaucracy: the EU civil service 46 Regulators: the EU quangos 49 Comitology: Interface of the EU Dual Executive 52 The committee procedures 53 Interinstitutional conflict in the choice and operation of the procedures 53 Democratic Control of the EU Executive 59 Political accountability: selection and censure of the Commission 59 vii viii Contents Administrative accountability: parliamentary scrutiny and transparency 62 Explaining the Organization of Executive Power in the EU 65 Demand for El] government: selective delegation by the member states 65 Supply of EU government: Commission preferences, entrepreneurship and capture 67 Conclusion: the Politics of a Dual Executive 69 3 Legislative Politics 72 Theories of Legislative Coalitions and Organization 72 Development of the Legislative System of the EU 76 Legislative Politics in the Council 79 Agenda organization: the presidency, sectoral councils and committees 80 Voting and coalition politics in the Council 83 Legislative Politics in the European Parliament 89 МЕР behaviour: reelection versus promotion and policies 89 Agenda organization: leaderships, parties and committees 90 Coalition formation 96 Legislative Bargaining between the Council and the EP 99 Theoretical models of EU bicameralism 103 Empirical evidence ofEP power 106 Conclusion: Complex but Familiar Politics 109 4 Judicial Politics 111 Political Theories of Constitutions and Courts 111 The EU Legal System and the European Court of Justice 115 Composition and operation of the European Court of Justice 117 Jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice 119 Constitutionalization of the European Union 121 Direct effect: EU law as the law of the land for national citizens 121 Supremacy: EU law as the higher law of the land 122 Integration through law, and economic constitutionalism 123 State-like properties: external sovereignty and internal coercion 124 Kompetenz-Kompetenz: judicial review of competence conflicts 126 Penetration of EU Law into National Legal Systems 128 Quantitative: national courts' use of ECJ preliminary rulings 128 Qualitative: national courts' acceptance of the EU legal system 131 Contents ix Explanations of EU Judicial Politics 134 Legal formalism and legal cultures 134 Activism by the European Court of justice 136 Strategic national courts: judicial empowerment and inter court competition 137 Private interests: the other interlocutors of the EC] 138 Strategic member state governments 140 Conclusion: Unknown Destination or Emerging Equilibrium? 142 PART II POLITICS 5 Public Opinion 147 Theories of the Social Bases of Politics 147 Public Support for the European Union: End of the Permissive Consensus 149 More or Less Integration: Europe Right or Wrong? 151 National divisions 152 Transnational conflicts: class interests 157 Other transnational divisions: age, education, gender, religion and elite versus mass 161 What the EU Should Do: Europe Right or Left? 166 The Electoral Connection: Putting the Two Dimensions Together 170 Conclusion: the EU as a Plural Society 173 6 Democracy, Parties and Elections 175 Democracy: Choosing Parties, Leaders and Policies 175 The 'Democratic Deficit' Debate 177 Parties: Competition and Organization 180 National parties and Europe 181 Parties at the European level 186 Elections: EP Elections and EU Referendums 192 EP elections: national or European contests? 192 Referendums on EU membership and treaty reforms 196 Towards a More Democratic EU? 202 A more majoritarian and/or powerful parliament 202 Election of the Commission: parliamentary or presidential? 203 Conclusion: Towards Democratic EU Government? 206 7 Interest Representation 208 Theories of Interest Group Politics 208 Lobbying Europe: Interest Groups and EU Policy-Making 211 Business interests: the large firm as a political actor 213 Trade unions, public interests and social movements 216 Territorial interests: at the heart of multilevel governance 220 χ Contents National Interests and the Consociational Cartel 223 Explaining the Pattern of Interest Representation 225 Demand for representation: globalization and Europeanization 225 Supply of access: policy expertise and legislative bargaining 227 Conclusion: a Mix of Representational Styles 230 PART Ш POLICY-MAKING 8 Regulation of the Single Market 235 Theories of Regulation 235 Deregulation via Negative Integration: the Single Market and Competition Policies 239 The single market 239 Competition policies 242 New liberalization methods: the open method of coordination and the Lamfalussy process 245 The impact of deregulatory policies: liberalization and regulatory competition 249 Reregulation via Positive Integration: Environmental and Social Policies 251 Environmental policy 251 Social policy 255 The EU reregulatory regime: between harmonization and voluntarism 260 Explaining EU Regulatory Policies 261 The demand for regulation: intergovernmental bargaining 262 The demand for regulation: private interests and Euro- pluralism 264 The supply of regulation: policy entrepreneurship, ideas and decision framing 266 Institutional constraints: legislative rules and political structure 267 Conclusion: Neoliberalism Meets the Social Market 269 9 Expenditure Policies 271 Theories of Public Expenditure and Redistribution 271 The Budget of the European Union 275 Revenue and the own-resources system 276 Expenditure 277 The annual budget procedure: 'the power of the purse' 278 The Common Agricultural Policy 281 Objectives and operation of the CAP 281 Problems with the CAP 283 Contents xi Reform of the CAP: towards a new type of (welfare) policy 283 Making agricultural policy: can the iron triangle be broken? 285 Cohesion Policy 289 Operation of the policy 289 Impact: a supply-side policy with uncertain convergence implications 292 Making cohesion policy: Commission, governments and regions 294 Other internal policies 295 Research and development 296 Infrastructure 298 Social integration and a European civil society 298 Explaining EU Expenditure Policies 300 Intergovernmental bargaining: national cost—benefit calculations 300 Private interests: farmers, regions, scientists and 'Euro-pork' 303 Commission entrepreneurship: promoting multilevel governance 304 Institutional rules: unanimity, majority, agenda-setting and the balanced-budget rule 305 Conclusion: a Set of Linked Welfare Bargains 307 10 Economic and Monetary Union 309 The Political Economy of Monetary Union 309 Development of Economic and Monetary Union in Europe 313 The Delors Report 313 The Maastricht Treaty design 314 Who qualifies? Fudging the convergence criteria 316 Resolving other issues: appeasing the unhappy French government 319 Explaining Economic and Monetary Union 320 Economic rationality: economic integration and a core optimal currency area 320 Interstate bargaining: a Franco-German deal 323 Agenda-setting by non-state interests: the Commission and central bankers 325 The power of ideas: the monetarist policy consensus 326 Monetary and Economic Policy in EMU 328 Independence of the ECB: establishing credibility and reputation 328 ECB decision-making in the setting of interest rates 331 xii Contents Inflation targets: ECB-EcoFin relations 333 National fiscal policies: the Stability and Growth Pact 334 European fiscal policies: budget transfers and tax harmonization 336 Labour market flexibility: mobility, structural reforms and wage agreements 338 The external impact of EM U 341 Conclusion: the Need for Policy Coordination 342 11 Citizen Freedom and Security Policies 344 Theories of Citizenship and the State 344 EU Freedom and Security Policies 346 From free movement of workers to 'an area of freedom, security and justice' 347 Free movement of persons 348 Fundamental rights and freedoms 350 Immigration and asylum policies 353 Police and judicial cooperation 356 Explaining EU Freedom and Security Policies 359 Exogenous pressure: growing international migration and crime 359 Government interests: from high politics to regulatory failure and voters' demands 364 Bureaucrats' strategies: bureau-shaping and the control paradigm 367 Supranational entrepreneurship: supplying credibility and accountability 369 Conclusion: Skeleton of a Pan-European State 372 12 Foreign Policies 374 Theories of International Relations and Political Economy 374 External Economic Policies: Free Trade, Not 'Fortress Europe' 378 The pattern of EU trade 378 The Common Commercial Policy 379 Multilateral trade agreements: GATT and the WTO 382 Bilateral preferential trade agreements 384 Development policies: aid and trade in 'everything but arms' 385 External Political Relations: Towards an EU Foreign Policy 387 Development of foreign policy cooperation and decision-making 387 Policy success and failure: haunted by the capability- expectations gap 393 Contents xiii Explaining the Foreign Policies of the EU 395 Global economic and geopolitical (inter)dependence 396 Intransigent national security identities and interests 398 Domestic economic interests: E U governments and multinational firms 400 Institutional rules: decision-making procedures and Commission agenda-setting 402 Conclusion: a 'Soft Superpower'? 404 13 Conclusion: Rethinking the European Union 406 What Political Science Teaches Us About the EU 406 Operation of government, politics and policy-making in the EU 406 Connections between government, politics and policy- making in the EU 409 What the EU Teaches Us About Political Science 412 Appendix: Decision-Making Procedures in the European Union 415 Bibliography 422 Index 475
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