Routledge Library Editions: Politics of the European Union
About the Book Series
Routledge Library Editions: Politics of the European Union brings together in a 35-volume collection some standout titles from the Routledge backlist. Books examine the immediate postwar period in Europe, and the first moves towards European political cooperation, and the challenges faced in building the European political community. Inter-European national politics are analysed as the continent moved towards integration, as well as internal politics – devolution and regionalism within member states. European foreign policy is examined, as is the thorny issue of European security and a European defence policy and Nato.
European Organisations
1st Edition
By Political and Economic Planning
September 12, 2025
European Organisations (1959) analyses the working methods and techniques of cooperation evolved by the eight principal European organisations – ECE, OEEC, The Council of Europe, NATO, WEU, ECSC, EEC and Euratom. These organisations were set up to meet the need for postwar economic recovery, and ...
European Parliamentary Procedure
1st Edition
By Lord Campion, D.W.S. Lidderdale
September 12, 2025
European Parliamentary Procedure (1954) provides a comparative guide to the procedures of European parliaments. The material in each of the ‘national’ chapters follows a uniform order of subjects so as to assist rapid consultation and facilitate comparison between countries and parliaments....
European Political Parties
1st Edition
Edited
By Stanley Henig, John Pinder
September 12, 2025
European Political Parties (1969) looks at the parties of Western Europe on a country by country basis, examining their roles in the increasing political integration in the European Economic Community. The party system is described, with a structural-functional analysis of individual parties. ...
European Unity: A Survey of the European Organisations
1st Edition
By Michael Palmer, John Lambert, et al.
September 12, 2025
European Unity (1968) examines how the European Economic Community and other European international organisations transformed the relations between the countries of Western Europe in political, economic and defence affairs. It describes the postwar moves to European cooperation and unity and the ...
Federalism and Federation in Western Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Burgess
September 12, 2025
Federalism and Federation in Western Europe (1986) analyses the nature of federalism and federation in Europe. It argues that there is an important conceptual distinction between federalism and federation. Federalism is taken to be a multi-dimensional phenomenon arising out of a variety of human ...
Gaullism: The Rise and Fall of a Political Movement
1st Edition
By Anthony Hartley
September 12, 2025
Gaullism (1972) is a historical-analytical study of the social and political movement of Gaullism, examining its political philosophy and practice, and its originator Charles de Gaulle. Starting with an analysis of de Gaulle’s philosophy and the background of the Third Republic, the book traces the...
Parliaments in Western Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip Norton
September 12, 2025
Over the last 20 years economic pressures have forced the governments of Western Europe to take hard and often immediate decisions. Policy-making has become more detached from parliaments as a result. How have the parliaments coped with these pressures and what role do they now play in the ...
Political Parties and Coalitions in European Local Government
1st Edition
Edited
By Colin Mellors, Bert Pijnenburg
September 12, 2025
Political Parties and Coalitions in European Local Government (1989) brings together two separate fields in political science – the study of coalitions and the study of local government. It brings an array of new insights into the landscapes of national government and party politics at local level,...
Political Parties in the European Community
1st Edition
Edited
By Stanley Henig
September 12, 2025
Political Parties in the European Community (1979) looks at the decision by the member governments of the European Community to proceed to the direct election of a European Parliament. It provides a full survey of the parties of the nine EC states, giving both information and analysis on political ...
Politics and Bureaucracy in the European Community: A Portrait of the Commission of the E.E.C.
1st Edition
By David Coombes
September 12, 2025
Politics and Bureaucracy in the European Community (1970) examines the European project’s key institution, the Commission, an assessment that also examines the basic principles on which the European Union is based. It reveals the Commission to be one of the most curious and interesting political ...
Regional Policy in the European Community: The Role of Regional Incentives
1st Edition
Edited
By Douglas Yuill, Kevin Allen, Chris Hull
September 12, 2025
Regional Policy in the European Community (1980) presents a structured overview of regional incentives and policy in the European Community countries, set in the context of the regional problem in those countries. Four main policy elements can be isolated in EEC countries: infrastructure investment...
Regions in Crisis: New Perspectives in European Regional Theory
1st Edition
Edited
By John Carney, Ray Hudson, Jim Lewis
September 12, 2025
Regions in Crisis (1980) examines the new perspectives in regional theory that began to be firmly established in many European countries following the international recession of 1973. This book introduces these new perspectives and makes important assessments accessible to an English-speaking ...