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Zusatztext contains a great number of excellent chapters that repay careful reading ... many of the individual chapters make an important contribution to the current scholarly debate on EU governance. Informationen zum Autor As Above Klappentext European integration is at a turning point with implications for all member states and their citizens. The book examines the process of European integration and highlights issues of institutional dynamics and prospects for democracy. Zusammenfassung The book examines the process of European integration and highlights issues of institutional dynamics and prospects for democracy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction: Amsterdam and beyond PART I: CHANGING INSTITUTIONS 2: Gerda Falkner and Michael Nentwich: The Amsterdam Treaty: The blueprint for the future institutional balance? 3: Christian Lequesne: The European Commission: A balancing act between autonomy and dependence 4: Giuseppe Ciavarini Azzi: The Slow March of European Legislation: The implementation of directives 5: Beate Kohler-Koch: Beyond Amsterdam: Regional integration as social process PART II: PROSPECTS FOR DEMOCRACY 6: Simon Hix: Executive Selection in the European Union: Does the Commission President investiture procedure reduce the democratic deficit? 7: Jürgen Neyer: Justifying Comitology: The promise of deliberation 8: Karlheinz Neunreither: Political Representation in the EU: A common whole, various wholes or just a hole? PART III: FLEXIBILITY AND THE CHALLENGE OF ENLARGEMENT 9: Alexander C-G. Stubb: Negotiating Flexible Integration in the Amsterdam Treaty 10: Helen Wallace: Flexibility: A tool of integration or a restraint on disintegration? 11: Peter Leslie: Abuses of Asymmetry: Privilege and exclusion 12: Ulrich Sedelmeier: East of Adam: The implications for eastern enlargement of the Amsterdam Treaty PART IV: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE 13: Ulf Sverdrup: Precedents and Present Events: An institutional perspective on treaty reform 14: Mark A. Pollack: A Blairite Treaty: Neo-liberalism and regulated capitalism in the Treaty of Amsterdam 15: Jo Shaw: Constitutional Settlements and the Citizen after the Treaty of Amsterdam 16: Antje Wiener: The Embedded Acquis Communautaire: Transmission belt and prism of new governance ...
