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.
The European Union as a Global Regulator?
1st Edition
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By Alasdair Young
January 12, 2018
The European Union is often depicted as a dominant global regulator. The purpose of this volume is to move beyond establishing that the EU influences global regulation towards an emphasis on the conditions with which it exerts that influence. Toward that end, it focuses on the EU's active ...
Ideas, Political Power, and Public Policy
1st Edition
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By Daniel Beland, Martin B. Carstensen, Leonard Seabrooke
January 08, 2018
Through the last couple of decades, scholars on both sides of the Atlantic have increasingly emphasized the importance of political ideas in understanding processes of change and stability in politics and public policy. Yet, surprisingly, relatively little has been done to more clearly and ...
Differentiated Integration in the European Union
1st Edition
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By Benjamin Leruth, Christopher Lord
June 16, 2017
The notion of Differentiated Integration is increasingly used in the literature on European integration. Often employed interchangeably with the notion of "flexible integration, diverging views on its nature have led to the emergence of various definitions and, to some extent, a semantic confusion....
European Democracy as Demoi-cracy
1st Edition
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By Francis Cheneval, Sandra Lavenex, Frank Schimmelfennig
June 07, 2017
Whereas ‘democracy’ assumes a single demos or people, ‘demoi-cracy’ refers to democratic government and governance in a polity constituted by separate peoples. Since the European Union consists of many demoi with different collective identities, largely separate public spheres, and a predominantly ...
European Integration in Times of Crisis: Theoretical perspectives
1st Edition
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By Demosthenes Ioannou, Patrick Leblond, Arne Niemann
June 07, 2017
Few events over the past few decades have given rise to an amount of debate and speculation concerning the state of the European Union (EU) and the future of European integration as the economic and financial crisis that began in 2007. In spite of substantial media, policy-making and academic ...
Legislative Lobbying in Context: The Policy and Polity Determinants of Interest Group Politics in the European Union
1st Edition
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By Jan Beyers, Caelesta Braun, Heike Klüver
June 07, 2017
The lack of previous research into political interest groups and taking into account policy-specific and institutional context characteristics is largely due to research designs that have been primarily focused on a small number of policy debates, with the result that contextual characteristics ...
Agency Governance in the EU
1st Edition
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By Berthold Rittberger, Arndt Wonka
May 31, 2017
The rapid proliferation of EU agencies represents one of the most significant changes to the EU’s organisational set-up in past decades. At the same time, this development has significantly affected regulatory policy-making in the EU. This volume assembles the most renowned scholars in the field to...
Speaking With a Single Voice: The EU as an effective actor in global governance?
1st Edition
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By Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt, Sophie Meunier
May 31, 2017
Under what conditions does the internal cohesiveness of the European Union determine its external effectiveness on the world stage? This book asks this question, investigating the frequent political assumption that the more cohesive the EU presents itself to the world, the more effective it is in ...
The EU Timescape
1st Edition
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By Klaus Goetz, Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling
May 31, 2017
The manner in which time is institutionalized is critical to how a political system works. Terms, time budgets and time horizons of collective and individual political actors; rights over timing, sequencing and speed in decision-making; and the temporal properties of policy matter to the ...
The Power of the European Court of Justice
1st Edition
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By Susanne K. Schmidt, R. Daniel Kelemen
May 31, 2017
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has played a vital role in promoting the process of European integration. In recent years, however, the expansion of EU law has led it to impact ever more politically sensitive issues, and controversial ECJ judgments have elicited unprecedented levels of ...
The EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy: The Quest for Democracy
1st Edition
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By Helene Sjursen
May 24, 2017
This book reorients the study of European foreign and security policy towards the question of democracy. Blending insights from international relations and democratic theory, it aims to enhance our understanding of the issues at stake. The main structures, the institutional setting and the ...
Coping with Power Dispersion: Autonomy, Co-ordination and Control in Multi-Level Systems
1st Edition
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By Mads Jensen, Christel Koop, Michaël Tatham
March 29, 2017
The last decades have witnessed a significant shift in policy competencies away from central governments in Europe. The reallocation of competencies spans over three dimensions: upwards, sideways, and downwards. This collection takes the dispersion of powers as a starting point and seeks to assess ...