Adjusting to Europe - The Impact of the European Union on National Institutions and Policies

List of contents

List of figures and tables, List of contributors, Series editor’s preface, Acknowledgements, 1 Introduction, Part I Articulating the Community and national interests, Part II Adapting national bureaucracies, Part III The European impact on domestic policies, Index

About the author

Yves Meny, Pierre Muller, Jean-Louis Quermonne

Summary

The European Union is paradoxical: it is not a state, yet it performs many traditional functions of the state. Its regulatory powers are immense but its redistributive functions are negligible; its decisions penetrate all aspects of economic and social life, yet Brussels has no local administration or tribunals, no controllers capable of guaranteeing the correct and faithful implementation of the regulations or objectives which frame European policies. Adjusting to Europe explores the means through which this paradox is confronted. It examines the nature and modalities of policy-making at Community level and discusses the implications of the specific nature of European institiutions for bargaining group mobilization and policy style. It then studies how the three major nation states have adjusted their policy processes and institutions to the European challenges. Finally, it considers the impact of community decisions in three areas: industrial, competition and social policy.

Product details

• Assisted by: Yves Meny (Editor), Meny Yves (Editor), Pierre Muller (Editor), Muller Pierre (Editor), Jean-Louis Quermonne (Editor), Quermonne Jean-Louis (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.11.1996
• EAN: 9780415144100
• ISBN: 978-0-415-14410-0
• No. of pages: 200
• Weight: 530 g
• Series: Routledge Research in European Public Policy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Politics & government, Politics and government