Policies and Policy Processes of the European Union
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Beschreibung
The dynamic and far-reaching system of European Union policymaking is analysed in this major new edition of a much-praised textbook. It offers the most integrated understanding of EU policy available. Major approaches to policymaking – including intergovernmentalism, neofunctionalism, supranationalism and critical theory – are presented and supplemented with the authors’ own integrating framework: federal integration. It is only through using all these perspectives in conjunction that a systematic and comprehensive evaluation of the EU’s interests and actors in key policy areas can be made. Today, the European Union faces a period of untold crisis. This text illustrates that despite the dire warnings of an EU approaching collapse, there is enough evidence to suggest EU governance is sufficiently flexible to adapt successfully to today’s sustained challenges. While the text covers the EU’s main policy areas – including those on the single market, Economic and Monetary Union, foreign policy, migration and border control, social and regional policies, and the budget – it does not become mired in policy minutiae but locates key policies within a wider, applied, framework. As such, it is the key introduction to the subject for students of Politics and European Studies at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
- Wide-ranging coverage of key policy areas including the single European market, Economic and Monetary Union, justice and home affairs and foreign policy
- A detailed examination of the nature and evolution of the EU policy portfolio
- The most detailed account of the actors in policy making, to answer why some policies are made at EU level and others have limited EU responsibility
- Chapter structure and unifying theory aids accessibility
- Packed with improved illustrations and boxed features
- Extensive analysis of the crises facing the EU, and their implications
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- Each chapter rewritten, many extensively, throughout
- New chapters on migration and border control, competition policy, and social and cohesion policies.
- New illustrative material and many new examples
- Each chapter now includes a Guide to Further Reading
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Laurie Buonanno
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