Constructing a Policy-Making State?

Policy Dynamics in the EU

Edited by Jeremy Richardson

The contributors are leading scholars in the policy sectors under review
The volume gives the reader a clear but sophisticated account of how the EU policy process really works

Constructing a Policy-Making State?

Policy Dynamics in the EU

Edited by Jeremy Richardson

Description

Constructing a Policy-Making State? sets out to examine the processes by which Europeanization takes place. Europeanization is defined as the process by which the key decisions about public policies are gradually transferred to the European level (or for new policy areas, emerge at the European level). This is in contrast to definitions of Europeanization which focus on the adaption of member states to European public policies. Thus, the main focus is whether a European Union 'policy-making state' is being created via changes in the distribution of power between member states and the European level institutions over time. In addition to several overview chapters (such as on agenda setting in the EU), there are twelve sectoral studies which analyse the differing trajectories and outcomes of the Europeanization process and the extent to which the European Union can make 'authoritative allocations'. The case studies have been selected in order to illustrate the degree of cross-sectoral variation in the process of Europeanization, from sectors which have yet to see very much Europeanization, such as health, to sectors such as competition policy which are almost fully Europeanized. The book is consciously multi-theoretic in its approach, drawing on a range of theories and concepts, from theories of European integration, to theories of public policy processes.

Constructing a Policy-Making State?

Policy Dynamics in the EU

Edited by Jeremy Richardson

Contents
Preface
Part I
1. Supranational State Building in the European Union, Jeremy Richardson
2. Agenda-Setting and the Formation of an EU Policy-Making State, Sebastiaan Princen
Part II
3. Competition Policy: the Evolution of Commission Control, Michael Blauberger
4. From the Treaty of Paris to Globalization: Steel and its 'Escape' from EU Governance, Geoffrey Dudley and Jeremy Richardson
5. Globalization and Internal Policy Dynamics in the Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, Carsten Daugbjerg
6. Environmental Policy: Governing by Multiple Instruments?, Andrew Jordan, David Benson, Rudiger Wurzel, and Anthony Zito
7. Policy Entrepreneurship, Group Mobilisation and the Creation of a New Policy Domain: Women's Rights and the European Union, Sonia Mazey
Part III
8. Inching Towards a Common Energy Policy: Entrepreneurship, Incrementalism, and Windows of Opportunity, Burkard Eberlein
9. The EMU Paradox: Centralization and Decentralization in EU Macroeconomic Policy, Dermot Hodson
10. Financial Regulation in Europe: From the Battle of the Systems to a Jacobinist EU, Emiliano Grossman and Patrick Leblond
11. The Dynamics of EU Migration Policy: from Maastricht to Lisbon, Arne Niemann
12. The EU's Foreign Economic Policies: Limits to Delegation, Andreas Dur
13. Developing a 'Comprehensive Approach' to International Security: Institutional Learning and the CSDP, Michael Smith
14. Polity-Making without Policy-Making: European Union Health Care Services Policy, Scott Greer
15. Promoting Policy Dynamism: The Pathways Interlinking Neofunctionalism and Integovernmentalism, Gerda Falkner
16. Governance Institutions and Policy Implementation in the European Union, Christoph Knill and Jale Tosun
17. The Onward March of Europeanization: Tectonic Movement and Seismic Events, Jeremy Richardson

Constructing a Policy-Making State?

Policy Dynamics in the EU

Edited by Jeremy Richardson

Author Information

Jeremy Richardson was formerly the Nuffield Professor of Comparative European Politics at Oxford, having previously help Politics Chairs as Essex, Warwick, and Strathclyde Universities. He founded the Journal of European Public Policy, which he still edits. In 2011 he received a Lifetime Award from the European Union Studies Association (USA) for his contribution to EU studies. He has published widely on the public policy process in Britain, Sweden and Norway, as well as the EU. He is currently an Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College Oxford and holds a Research Chair at the National Centre for Research on Europe, at the University of Canterbury, NZ.

Contributors:

Jeremy Richardson, University of Canterbury, NZ
Sebastiaan Princen, Utrecht University School of Governance
Michael Blauberger, University of Bremen
Geoffrey Dudley, Economic and Social Research Council
Carsten Daugbjerg, Aarhus University, Denmark
Andrew Jordan, University of East Anglia
David Benson, University of East Anglia
Rüdiger Wurzel, University of Hull
Anthony Zito, Newcastle University
Sonia Mazey, University of Canterbury, NZ
Burkard Eberlein, york university, Canada
Dermot Hodson, Birkbeck College, University of London
Emiliano Grossman, Sciences Po
Patrick Leblond, University of Ottawa
Arne Niemann, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Andreas Dür, University of Salzburg
Michael Smith, University of Aberdeen
Scott Greer, University of Michigan
Gerda Falkner, University of Vienna
Christoph Knill, University of Konstanz
Jale Tosun, University of Konstanz