Journal of European Public Policy Series
About the Book Series
This series seeks to bring together some of the finest edited works on European Public Policy. Reprinting from Special Issues of the Journal of European Public Policy, the focus is on using a wide range of social sciences approaches, both qualitative and quantitative, to gain a comprehensive and definitive understanding of Public Policy in Europe.
Innovative Approaches to EU Multilevel Implementation: Moving beyond legal compliance
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By Eva Thomann, Fritz Sager
June 30, 2020
Multi-level governance systems like the European Union (EU) calibrate integration with member state discretion in order to implement common, yet context-sensitive solutions to shared policy problems. Research on implementation in the EU typically focuses on legal compliance with EU policy. However,...
The European Union at an Inflection Point: (Dis)integrating or the New Normal?
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By Alasdair Young
June 30, 2020
The cutting-edge contributions to this book analyse different facets of the European Union (EU): closer integration among the member states, policymaking within a ‘normal’ political system, and the implications of European integration for its member states. This book also considers whether the ...
The Future of the Social Investment State: Politics, Policies and Outcomes
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By Marius R. Busemeyer, Caroline de la Porte, Julian L. Garritzmann, Emmanuele Pavolini
June 30, 2020
Social investment is part of a strategy to modernize the European welfare states by focusing on human resource development throughout the life-course, while ensuring financial sustainability. The last decades have seen cost containment in areas such as pensions and health care, but also expansion ...
The Politics and Economics of Brexit
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By Simon Bulmer, Lucia Quaglia
June 30, 2020
The British referendum on continuing membership of the European Union (EU) in June 2016 represented a turning point in the relationship between the United Kingdom (UK) and the EU. This book investigates the implications of Brexit for the EU and the UK, placing this assessment in the context of the ...
Transforming Food and Agricultural Policy: Post-exceptionalism in public policy
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By Carsten Daugbjerg, Peter Feindt
May 07, 2020
Western democratic welfare states often featured sectoral governance arrangements where governments negotiated policy with sectoral elites, based on shared ideas and exclusive institutional arrangements. Food and agriculture policy is widely considered an extreme case of compartmentalized and ‘...
European Union Enlargement and Integration Capacity
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By Tanja Börzel, Antoaneta L. Dimitrova, Frank Schimmelfennig
December 17, 2019
The effects of the Eastern enlargement, the biggest so far, are still felt across the European Union (EU). Many warned the EU was about to overreach the limits of its integration capacity. More than a decade later, this book presents a broad-based and systematic evaluation of the 2004–2007’s ...
Political Budgeting Across Europe
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By Christian Breunig, Christine S. Lipsmeyer, Guy D. Whitten
December 12, 2019
Budgeting is a key aspect of governmental behaviour. Research on budgeting has taken various theoretical and methodological approaches, and these differences have prevented scholars from discussing their common topic. In this collection, we have gathered a group of prominent scholars to explore the...
Federal Challenges and Challenges to Federalism
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By John Erik Fossum, Markus Jachtenfuchs
February 14, 2019
Discussing what we may learn from thinking about the EU in federal terms represents a two-fold challenge. It is on the one hand a matter of establishing ‘how federal’ the EU is (the EU’s federal challenge). On the other, the EU has federal features but is not a state, thus raising the question of ...
France and the European Union: After the Referendum on the European Constitution
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By Emiliano Grossman
January 10, 2019
The character of international trade has changed dramatically over the past twenty years. Previously published as a special issue of The Journal of European Public Policy, this volume provides a ‘state of the art’ study of the new trade politics....
Fiascos in Public Policy and Foreign Policy
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By Kai Oppermann, Alexander Spencer
October 18, 2018
The collection brings together scholars from Public Policy and Foreign Policy to address the theme of policy fiascos. So far research on failure and fiascos in both Public Policy and Foreign Policy has existed independent of each other with very little communication between the two sub-disciplines....
Governance by International Public Administrations: Bureaucratic Influence and Global Public Policies
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By Christoph Knill, Michael Bauer
September 27, 2018
As the demand and necessity for greater international and transnational cooperation increase, the bureaucratic bodies of international organizations are receiving ever more scholarly attention. However, the relevance of International Public Administrations (IPAs) for global policy-making remains ...
The European Union: Integration and Enlargement
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By R. Daniel Kelemen, Anand Menon, Jonathan Slapin
September 10, 2018
This book explores one of the central challenges facing the EU today – how to reconcile enlargement with the pursuit of a stronger and more effective European Union. While the relationship between widening and deepening has been recognized for years as one of the big questions in the field of ...