Governing Europe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword; Introduction: Grappling with Untidy Reality; 1. Institutions and the Evolution of European Democracy; 2. National Courts and the Community Law; THE CORE EXECUTIVE; 3. On Studying Governments; 4. What is New about Governance and Why does it Matter; 5. Executives in Comparative Context; 6. The Political System of the European Union; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; 7. Dismantling and Rebuilding the Weberian State; 8. The Age of Administrative Reforms; 9. The European Administration: Between Europeanization and Domostication; 10. Europeanization and the Persistence of Administrative Systems; PARTIES AND ORGANIZED INTEREST; 11. The Decline of Party; 12. Comparing Economic Interest Organizations; 13. Interest Groups and the Brussels Bureaucracy; DEMOCRACY AND POPULAR PARTICIPATION; 14. Contentious Politics in Western Europe and the United States; 15. From Popular Dissatisfaction to Populism: Democracy, Constitutionalism and Corruption; 16. Democratizations in the European Periphery; PUBLIC POLICY; 17. The Politics of Regulation and European Regulatory Institutions; 18. From Industrial Policy to a Regulatory State: constrasting institutional change in Britain and France; 19. Monetary Policy and the Euro; 20. Recasting European Welfare States; THE STATE; 21. The Changing European State; 22. The European State; 23. International Relations, International Institutions and the European State; Conclusion: Governing Europe; Bibliography

Portrait

Jack Hayward is Research Professor at the University of Hull and a Fellow of the British Academy.

Anand Menon is Director of the European Research Institute, Birmingham University

Pressestimmen

This edited collection presents a superb survey of Western European politics, featuring an all-star cast of contributors The 23 substantive chapters are short, pithy, and usually right on the mark. Highly recommended. Choice