Responsive Union - National Elections and European Governance

Presents a comprehensive account of how EU governments signal responsiveness to the interests of their citizens over European policies.

List of contents

1. Responsive governance in the European Union; 2. The politicization of European cooperation; 3. Signals of responsiveness - a theory; 4. The EU-aware voter; 5. The EU budget: financially trivial, politically substantial; 6. Triumph and agony in the 2007-13 MFF negotiations; 7. The legislative leviathan marionette; 8. The waiting game: aprés les élections, le déluge; 9. When the music stops: the German politics of the Greek; 10. The European republic; References; Index.

About the author

Christina J. Schneider is Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair of the EU at the University of California, San Diego. Professor Schneider previously published Conflict, Negotiation and European Union Enlargement (Cambridge, 2009). Her articles appear in the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, International Organization, and International Studies Quarterly, among others.

Summary

The EU's perceived lack of responsiveness to ordinary citizens has created a serious crisis of democratic legitimacy that threatens its very survival. In this timely book, Schneider presents a comprehensive account of how EU governments signal responsiveness to the interests of their citizens over European policies.

Product details

• Authors: Christina J. Schneider, Christina J. (University of California Schneider, Schneider Christina J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781108472319
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47231-9
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Europe, Public Relations, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Political science & theory, Comparative Politics, Diplomacy, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Political science and theory, EU (European Union), International institutions, Central / national / federal government, EU & European institutions, Central government, Pressure groups & lobbying