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Informationen zum Autor Joseph Jupille received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Washington in 2000. He is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Florida International University and Associate Director of the Miami European Union Center. His published work has appeared in among others! Annual Review of Political Science! Comparative Political Studies! and International Organization. He has been EU-US Fulbright Fellow! and SSRC International Dissertation Fellow. Having been awarded a Jean Monnet Fellowship! he spent the 2003-2004 academic year in the Transatlantic Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Fiesole! Italy. Klappentext After developing an argument to determine when actors will try and reshape political rules! rather than operate within them! Joseph Jupille applies it to European Union (EU) integration and politics. Jupille demonstrates that the European Union is far more deeply rule-governed than is traditionally understood and! accordingly! reveals a much more complete picture of the role of rules in political life than is available in most existing research. Zusammenfassung Using multiple methods and original data! this book develops a theory of everyday politics with respect to rules - procedural politics - and applies it to European Union integration and politics. It paints a much fuller picture of the role of rules in political life than is available in most existing work. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; List of tables; Preface and acknowledgments; List of acronyms used in the text; 1. Introduction: choice, constraint, and European Union institutions; 2. Theorizing procedural politics: issues, interests, and institutional choice; 3. The EU as a procedural system: rules, preferences, and strategic interaction; 4. Patterns: determinants and effects of EU procedural politics; 5. Greening the market? Procedural politics and EU environmental policy; 6. Mad cows and Englishmen: procedural politics and EU agricultural policy; 7. Conclusion: procedural politics and rule governance in the EU and beyond; Bibliography; Index....
