The Engines of European Integration

Zusatztext ... will interest scholars, students and policy researchers of EU affairs. Klappentext The European Union is composed of its fifteen member governments! yet these governments have chosen repeatedly to delegate executive! judicial and legislative powers and substantial discretion to supranational institutions such as the Commission! the Court of Justice! and the European Parliament. In The Engines of Integratio! the first full-length study of delegation in the European Union and international politics! Mark Pollack draws on principal-agent analyses of delegation! agency and agenda setting to analyze and explain the delegation of powers by governmental principals to supranational agents! and the role played by those agents in the process of European integration. Zusammenfassung This study of delegation and agency in the European Union! examines the role of supranational actors like the Commission! the Court of Justice! and the European Parliament in the process of European integration and in contemporary EU governance.

Product details

• Authors: Mark A. Pollack
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2003
• EAN: 9780199251179
• ISBN: 978-0-19-925117-9
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, LAW / Comparative, Political structure & processes, Political Economy, comparative law, EU (European Union), International institutions, Political structure and processes, EU & European institutions