Description
The European Union (EU) poses quite profound questions for scholars and students of the social and political sciences. This benchmark Handbook is designed to provide an authoritative state-of-the art guide to the scope of the field suitable for both established scholars and students of the EU; reflect and contribute to the debates about the nature of the field of EU studies and EU politics in particular; and explore in detail the development of the many approaches to the study of EU politics. Divided into four sections, the Handbook focuses on theorizing European integration; the EU as polity; politics and policy making in the EU; and the EU and the international system.
Chapter
Part I: Process: Theorizing European Integration
Chapter 1 - The Political Sciences of European Integration: Disciplinary History and EU Studies
Chapter 2 - Rational Choice and EU Politics
Chapter 3 - Constructivism and EU Politics
Chapter 4 - Another Europe is Possible: Critical Perspectives on European Union Politics
Chapter 5 - Disciplinary Perspectives on EU Politics: History, Law, Economics and Sociology
Part II: The European Union as Polity
Chapter 6 - The European Union as a Polity (I)
Chapter 7 - The European Union as a Polity (II)
Chapter 8 - Legislative Politics
Chapter 9 - Executive Politics
Chapter 10 - Judicial Politics
Chapter 11 - Organized Interests in the European Union
Chapter 12 - Political Parties in the European Union
Chapter 13 - Public Opinion, Socialization and Political Communication
Chapter 14 - Constitutional Politics
Chapter 15 - Bringing Federalism Back In
Chapter 16 - Normative Political Theory and the European Union
Part III: Politics and Policy-Making in the European Union
Chapter 17 - Overview: The European Union, Politics and Policy-Making
Chapter 18 - Fiscal and Monetary Policy: Coordination and Integration in Macro-Economic Policy
Chapter 19 - The Politics of Regulation and the Internal Market
Chapter 20 - The Politics of Redistripution
Chapter 21 - Environmental Policy in the European Union: Bridging Policy. Politics and Polity Dimensions
Chapter 22 - Gender and European Union Politics
Chapter 23 - The Politics of European Union Domestic Order
Chapter 24 - New Modes of Governance in the European Union: A Critical Survey and Analysis
Chapter 25 - Europeanization: The Domestic Impact of European Union Politics
Part IV: The European Union and the International System
Chapter 26 - Overview: The European Union and the World
Chapter 27 - The European Union and International Political Economy: Trade, Aid and Monetary Policy
Chapter 28 - European Foreign Policy
Chapter 29 - 'The European and the Universal Process'? European Union Studies, New Regionalism and Global Governance