Participation and Policy Making in the European Union

Zusatztext The variety of views that are brought together provide a more comprehensive, indepth understanding of what are very complex processes. Their wide scope makes them of interest to anyone engaging with the European process or the evolution of business representation and public-private relations. - Hannah Tooze. Local Government Studies. Klappentext Who really participates in the European policy process? This study by a multinational team of experts examines the interplay between organized interests, member governments, and the European institutions to show that emerging patterns of European governance are starting to produce some policy outcomes that are different from those generated in national settings. Zusammenfassung This study, by a multinational team, examines the interplay between organised interests, member governments, and the European institutions, and argues that emerging patterns of European governance are starting to produce some policy outcomes that are different from those generated in national settings. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introductory Foreword 1: Helen Wallace: Introduction 2: Wolfgang Wessels: The Growth and Differentiation of Multi-Level Networks: A Corporatist Mega-Bureaucracy or an Open City? 3: Beate Kohler-Koch: Organized Interests in European Integration: The Evolution of a New Type of Governance 4: Ernesto Previdi: Making and Enforcing Regulatory Policy in the Single Market 5: Irène Bellier: The Commission as an Actor: An Anthropologist's View 6: Maria Green Cowles: Organizing Industrial Coalitions: A Challenge for the Future? 7: Elie Cohen: The Interplay of Corporate, National, and European Interests 8: Peter Holmes and Francis McGowan: The Changing Dynamic of EU-Industry Relations: Lessons from the Liberalization of European Car and Airline Markets 9: Alan Cawson: Big Firms as Political Actors: Corporate Power and the Governance of the European Consumer Electronics Industry 10: Alasdair R. Young: Consumption without Representation? Consumers in the Single Market 11: Helen Wallace and Alasdair R. Young: The Kaleidoscope of European Policy-Making: Shifting Patterns of Participation and Influence ...

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• Authors: Helen (Professor of Contemporary European Wallace, Helen Young Wallace, Young Wallace
• Assisted by: Helen Wallace (Editor), Helen Professor Wallace (Editor), Wallace Helen (Editor), Alasdair R Young (Editor), Alasdair R. Young (Editor), Young Alasdair R. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.09.1997
• EAN: 9780198280606
• ISBN: 978-0-19-828060-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Political structure & processes, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, EU (European Union), International institutions, Political structure and processes, EU & European institutions, Pressure groups & lobbying