Bøker av Nikolaos Zahariadis

A fresh introduction to the European Union that helps students take an analytical look at this dynamic institution.

Using figures from European Union members, the volume highlights the conditional effects of globalization, asset specificity, and domestic institutions. Far from being impotent, democratic states face politically powerful pressures to continue to shield social actors from the vagaries of the global market.

Expanding and extending John Kingdon's influential "multiple streams" model that explains agenda setting, the author argues that manipulation, the bending of ideas, process, and beliefs to get what you want out of the policy process, is the key to understanding the dynamics of policymaking in conditions of ambiguity.