Bücher der Reihe European Politics

An exhaustive update of the 2010 classic that analyzes more countries, revamping the theoretical classification of lobbying regulatory environments and the states found therein. Two key innovations in this edition include: new insights on measuring transparency and accountability of the laws and an easy guide to make or amend a law. -- .

This book provides a distinctive and empirically rich account of the European Union's relationship with the Common Market of the South (Mercosur). It seeks to examine the motivations that determine the EU's policy towards Mercosur; the most important relationship the EU has with another regional economic integration organization. In order to investigate these motivations (or lack thereof), this study examines the contribution of the main policy- and decision-makers, the European Commission and the Council of Ministers, as well as the different contributions of the two institutions. It analyses the development of EU policy towards Mercosur in relation to three key stages. Arana argues that the dominant explanations in the literature fail to adequately explain the EU's policy, in particular, these accounts tend to infer the EU's motives from its activity. Rather than the EU pursuing a strategy, as implied by most of the existing literature, the EU was largely responsive, which explains why the relationship is much less developed than the EU's relations with other parts of the world.

The central governments of the member states play a crucial role in the transformation of EU public policy into reality. This book examines the way in which the Greek, French and British central governments perform this role. -- .

This book assesses the potential EU media regualtion provides for market growth and the protection of media pluralism, the citizen and ultimately democracy itself. These opportunities are presented in the coming decade with the devloping European Constitution, EU enlargement, and the implementation and revision of European regulation. -- .

This book examines how Ireland's relationship with the EU was affected by a succession of crises; the financial crisis, the migration crisis and the Brexit crisis, in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. -- .

This book examines how Ireland's relationship with the EU was affected by a succession of crises; the financial crisis, the migration crisis and the Brexit crisis, in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. -- .

This book explores the constraints on national executives in the five bailed out countries of the Eurozone - namely Greece, Cyprus, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. It also sheds light on the policy-makers' discretion and motivations to revert, or alternatively to keep, policies that had been taken under conditionality. -- .

This book analyses the problem of distributive justice in the European Union. The author examines the nature of the distributive duties linked to EU membership and puts forward a set of policy proposals to advance a just Europe. -- .

This revised and updated edition explores the dynamic of EU migration and asylum policy, clearly an issue that remains very topical. -- .

This book argues that the EU is receptive to the sportssectors claims for special treatment before the law. The book investigates thebirth of EU sports law and policy by examining significant court decisions, thepossibility of exempting sport from EU law, sport and the EU treaty, and more. -- .

In this first English translation, former Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis examines the European debt crisis with particular reference to the case of Greece -- .

Offers a comprehensive analysis of the agency phenomenon in the European Union. It takes stock of the emergence and development of EU agencies, providing insight into the characteristics as well as the consequences of the ongoing EU agencification process. -- .

Offers a comprehensive analysis of the agency phenomenon in the European Union. It takes stock of the emergence and development of EU agencies, providing insight into the characteristics as well as the consequences of the ongoing EU agencification process. -- .

This book rediscovers international bureaucracies as a key engine of international organisations and an important component of modern public administration. It explores the everyday decision-making dynamics within three international bureaucracies: the administration of the European Commission, the OECD Secretariat, and the WTO Secretariat. -- .

This is a path breaking study of the European Union's impact on UK central government. It is the first book to deal comprehensively with the EU's impact on central government across the period from the UK's first application to join in 1961 right up to the end of the Blair administration.

With continuing controversy about the future direction of the EU, this groundbreaking book argues that Europe has a Common Agricultural Policy in name only. Based on a comparison between the UK, France, Poland, the Netherlands, Greece and Ireland, it shows how agriculture and rural policy is more diverse than generally recognised. -- .

This book focuses on the capacity of European governments and the EU institutions to deliver high quality regulation. Drawing on comprehensive research and an original survey, it shows how regulatory quality can be measured and appraised - thus appealing both to academics and to policy-makers involved in major regulatory reforms.

In an age of sleaze, scandal and corruption associated with financial crisis and economic downturn across the globe, citizens want more transparency and accountability in politics. This pioneering book, available for the first time in paperback, examines a principal means by which this can be achieved: the regulation of lobbyists. -- .