Routledge Advances in European Politics
About the Book Series
This series features innovative and groundbreaking theoretical and empirical research on the latest transformations within European politics. Subjects covered will be wide-ranging and include:
- both the EU and non-member states
- developments in European political institutions
- economic and monetary union
- European political cultures and identities.
Democracy in the European Union: Towards the Emergence of a Public Sphere
1st Edition
Edited
By Liana Giorgi, Ingmar von Homeyer, Wayne Parsons
August 20, 2010
An invaluable exploration of the concern that transfers of power to European Union institutions are producing a worrying new form of democratic deficit. While ongoing reforms of these institutions promise to render decision processes at European level more transparent and accountable, these ...
E-government in Europe: Re-booting the State
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul G. Nixon, Vassiliki N. Koutrakou
August 10, 2010
This book traces the development of e-government and its applications across Europe, exploring the effects of information and communication technology (ICTs) upon political action and processes. Explores a range of concepts and topics underpinning e-government in Europe: the degree to which ...
Britain and the Balkans: 1991 until the Present
1st Edition
By Carole Hodge
June 09, 2010
An incisive analysis of Britain's decision-making role in the Yugoslavian conflict of the 1990s and in the formation of its successor states. Tracing the evolution of British policy from the onset of war in Croatia and Bosnia to the NATO action in Kosovo, and beyond, this major work examines ...
Women and British Party Politics: Descriptive, Substantive and Symbolic Representation
1st Edition
By Sarah Childs
June 04, 2010
Women and British Party Politics examines the characteristics of women’s participation at the mass and elite level in contemporary British politics; as voters, party members and elected representatives respectively. It explores what this means for ideas about, and the practice of, descriptive, ...
Conflict and Change in EU Budgetary Politics
1st Edition
By Johannes Lindner
September 24, 2009
Why did the European Union experience a stark variation in the levels of conflict between the late 1970s, when budgetary disputes dominated European politics, and the 1990s, when political actors were able to settle upon budgetary agreements without major conflicts? This book responds to this key...
National Parliaments within the Enlarged European Union: From 'Victims' of Integration to Competitive Actors?
1st Edition
Edited
By John O'Brennan, Tapio Raunio
June 29, 2009
This book presents a wide range of perspectives on the role of national parliaments in EU politics and policy-making. Many accounts of the role of national parliaments portray them as passive victims of European integration. This study instead examines their role within the EU policy-making process...
Policy Transfer in European Union Governance: Regulating the Utilities
1st Edition
By Simon Bulmer, David Dolowitz, Peter Humphreys, Stephen Padgett
June 29, 2009
This new book presents a clear conceptual framework for understanding the transfer of policy ideas between EU states, together with an empirical study of regulatory change within European utilities. Policy transfer is a new instrument for understanding EU policy-making. This volume shows how the ...
EU Foreign and Interior Policies: Cross-Pillar Politics and the Social Construction of Sovereignty
1st Edition
By Stephen Stetter
June 09, 2009
This book offers an innovative theoretical and empirical analysis of integration in EU foreign and interior policies across the three pillars, from the Maastricht Treaty to the Treaty of Nice. The establishment of the three pillar structure with the Maastricht Treaty has been one of the key ...
European Union Negotiations: Processes, Networks and Institutions
1st Edition
Edited
By Ole Elgström, Christer Jönsson
June 09, 2009
The EU policy process is dependent on negotiations as a mode of reaching agreements on, and implementing, common policies. The EU negotiations differ from traditional international negotiations in several respects and this book presents a detailed analysis of the processes while examining their ...
The Conservative Party and European Integration since 1945: At the Heart of Europe?
1st Edition
By Nick Crowson
June 09, 2009
This volume provides an up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to British policy in Europe. By exploring the schisms within the party over Europe, through primary source-based history and theoretical discourses of political science, N.J. Crowson gives the reader the best sense of understanding ...
The Politics of European Union Enlargement: Theoretical Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By Frank Schimmelfennig, Ulrich Sedelmeier
June 09, 2009
This is a key reference text presenting the latest first-rate approaches to the study of European enlargement. Developed and significantly expanded from a special issue of the leading Journal of European Public Policy, this new volume draws on the insights from the recently emerging ...
Europeanizing Social Democracy?: The Rise of the Party of European Socialists
1st Edition
By Simon Lightfoot
March 10, 2009
Presenting a detailed explanation of party politics in the European Union, this new book uses the Party of European Socialists (PES) as a key case study, and tests the relevance of existing theoretical work on the meaning, significance, and prospects for realising other ‘Europarties’. This ...