European Union: Power and Policy-Making

PART 1 STATE BUILDING, DIFFERENTIATED INTEGRATION AND A MULTISPEED EUROPE 1. The EU as a policy-making state: a policy system like any other? Jeremy Richardson 2. The EU as a system of differentiated integration: a challenge for theories of European integration? Frank Schimmelfennig and Berthold Rittberger 3. The politics of multispeed integration in the European Union Christian B. Jensen and Jonathan B. Slapin PART 2: INSTITUTIONAL PROCESSING 4. The European Commission Arndt Wonka 5. The EU's multilevel parliamentary system Berthold Rittberger and Thomas Winzen 6. The Councils of the EU: intergovernmental bargaining in a supranational polity Daniel Naurin 7. The shadow of case law: the Court of Justice of the European union and the policy process Susanne Schmidt 8. The distribution of power among institutions Robert Thomson 9. The EU budget: which fiscal capacity at the European level? Henrik Enderlein , Ole Funker, and Johannes Lindner 10. EU agencies Berthold Rittberger and Arndt Wonka PART 3: VARIEGATED POLICY-MAKING 11. EU enlargement Frank Schimmelfennig 12. The EU as an international actor Michael Smith 13. European regulation Mark Thatcher 14. European macroeconomic governance Erik Jones and Gregory W. Fuller 15. Covert integration in the European Union Adrienne Heritier 16. Implementation Christoph Knill PART 4: CHANNELS OF REPRESENTATION 17. European elections and the European voter Mark Franklin and Sara B. Hobolt 18. Shooting where the ducks are: EU lobbying and institutionalized promiscuity Sonia Mazey and Jeremy Richardson 19. Bypassing the nation state? Regions and the EU policy process Michael Keating, Liesbet Hooghe, and Michael Tatham 20. Political Representation and democracy in the EU Sandra Kroger