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Asks three crucial questions about the administrative reform of the European Commission: why was such a comprehensive reform possible, what are its specific implications for the Commission as an organisation, and what is the likely impact for the policy process. This book puts the organisational base of EU policy-making centre stage.

How have EU-level actors responded to the increase in salience and contestation across the member states? This volume explores and explains the actors' strategic responses and emphasises that domestic pressure has triggered both depoliticisation and politicisation.Long gone are the times when EU decisions left citizens indifferent, and when the supranational was largely irrelevant for public opinion and electoral politics across the member states. Instead, a string of existential crises has struck and unsettled the Union over more than a decade. These crises have politicised Europe, tested the endurance of the supranational system to its core, and put EU-level actors under unprecedented pressure. This volume explores how and why EU-level actors respond to the various, sometimes competing, 'bottom-up' demands, and challenges the view that domestic contestation necessarily limits EU-level room for manoeuvre. Instead, contributions show that domestic pressure can be perceived as either constraining or enabling, with responses, therefore, ranging from the restrained to the assertive. Driven by the survival of the Union, by the preservation of their own powers, and by different perceptions of domestic demands, actors will choose to politicise or depoliticise decision-making, behaviour, and policy outcomes at the supranational level. The volume concludes that whilst domestic pressure triggers supranational responses, such responses should not be assumed to be restraining; they may equally be empowering including for European integration itself.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

This book confronts and discusses different conceptions of political representation with respect to their application to the system of multi-level governance in the European Union. This book was based on a special issue of Journal of European Public Policy.

European politicians often speak of their efforts to 'manage globalization'. This volume argues that the advocacy of managed globalization goes beyond rhetoric and actually has been a primary driver of major European Union (EU) policies.

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 achieving its goals. Contributions to this book explore this theory from a range of perspectives, from trade to foreign policy, and highlight complex patterns between internal cohesiveness and external effectiveness. These are simplified into three possible configurations: internal cohesiveness has a positive impact on external effectiveness; internal cohesiveness has no impact on external effectiveness; and internal cohesiveness has a negative impact on external effectiveness. The international context in which the EU operates, which includes the bargaining configuration and the policy arena, functions as an intervening variable that helps us to explain variation in these causal links. The book also launches a research agenda aimed at explaining these patterns more systematically and determining the marginal impact of cohesiveness on effectiveness. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

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 how the actors involved cope with the new configurations. Chapters discuss the conceptualization of power dispersion and highlight the ways in which we add to this research agenda. Some general conclusions are also outlined, indicating future avenues of research. Taken together, the collection contributes answers to the challenge of defining and measuring - in a comparative way - the control and co-ordination mechanisms which power dispersion generates. In sum, the collection explores the tension between political actors'' quest for autonomy and the acknowledgement of their interdependence whilst revealing how, as power dispersion deepens, central governments have sought to both manage and limit it. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

This volume offers a thematic and forward-looking survey of cutting-edge research on EU negotiation dynamics, identifying findings to date and setting an empirical and methodological agenda for future research. This book was based on a special issue of Journal of European Public Policy.

Provides an analysis of how the European Union shapes and is shaped by the 'new' trade politics. This book was previously published as a special issue of "The Journal of European Public Policy."

Confronts and discusses different conceptions of political representation and their application to the system of multi-level governance in the European Union. This book assesses both the effectiveness and legitimacy of the channels of political representation which have developed in the EU.

Assesses the ability of learning theories to explain European Union (EU) integration processes, highlighting the conditions under which EU actors in various decision-making processes learn or do not learn.

This book analyzes the projection of EU rules and policies onto its western, eastern and southern neighbours. It explores the impact of EU institutions, EU power, and the domestic structures of its partner countries on the effectiveness of external governance. This book was published as a special issue in Journal of European Public Policy.

An analysis of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in Europe. This title studies the developments in the 2000s and draws conclusions about to what extent EMU has been successful and what challenges lie ahead.

Are political parties able to fulfil their role as 'transmission belts' ensuring political accountability and consistent decision-making in the European Union? This title answers this question by looking at the micro foundations of partisan politics in the European Union. It examines party effects in the electoral and legislative arena.

Previously published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy, this volume presents a theory of constitutionalization as well as comparative analyses and case studies to underscore the claim that the European integration process itself engenders a democratic self-healing mechanism.

This book examines why postcommunist states continue to comply with international institutions' rules and prescriptions even after those states have won the ultimate prize of European Union membership. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

This book moves beyond legal compliance in European Union (EU) implementation research to shed light on the diversity of responses to EU policy, practical implementation patterns, and mechanisms to ensure compliance. The chapters originally published as a special issue in the Journal of European Public Policy.

EU Lobbying: Empirical and Theoretical Studies offers an analysis of large empirical studies of interest group politics and Lobbying in Europe. It assesses the logic of collective and direct action, the logic of access and influence, the logic of venue-shopping and alliance building.

A study of the trade politics in international trade.

Previously published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy, this book draws on the insights of the existing literature on agenda setting and policy changes to explore the dynamics of attention allocation and its consequences.

Previously published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy, this study revisits the work of the late Ernst Haas, assessing his relevance for contemporary European integration and its disparities.

Examines the belief that the EU not only has an impact on the international system but also a 'normative', 'civilian' and 'civilising' power. This work establishes criteria and assessment standards for examining the EU's international role and its putative normative dimension.

This book analyses the institutional and administrative achievements of the Lisbon agenda, most ambitious plan of the European Union over the last ten years. It was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

This volume offers a fresh look at the EU¿s foreign economic policies using a principal-agent approach. It provides insights into the EU¿s trade policy, its role in international financial governance, and its involvement in the G8 and the International Accounting Standards Board.This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

This volume offers a fresh look at the EU¿s foreign economic policies using a principal-agent approach. It provides insights into the EU¿s trade policy, its role in international financial governance, and its involvement in the G8 and the International Accounting Standards Board.This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

This book moves beyond legal compliance in European Union (EU) implementation research to shed light on the diversity of responses to EU policy, practical implementation patterns, and mechanisms to ensure compliance. The chapters originally published as a special issue in the Journal of European Public Policy.

The role of political parties in immigration control and integration policy in Europe is underestimated, and parties on the centre-right are particularly important and interesting in this respect. This volume brings together experts on both migration and political parties in order to study the impacts, dilemmas and trade-offs involved.