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"Spanning the period of 1994 to 2019, Balancing Pressures provides a comprehensive analysis of how the economy, national politics, and supranational politics shape economic policymaking in the European Union. It shows how these factors affect the controversies over its design, the outcome of negotiations, and the implementation of the policy"-- Provided by publisher.
List of contents
1. Governing the European economy as balancing pressures; Part I. Defining the Policy Problem: 2. The subtle influence of ideas: austerity needs no rules; Part II. Negotiating and Designing Economic Governance: 3. The battle lines: noncompliance risk, asymmetric power, and enforcement; 4. Compromises, procedures, and the costs of failure; 5. Governance design under uncertainty, threats, and politicisation; Part III. Implementing Economic Governance: 6. Supranational bargaining, credibility, and preventive surveillance; 7. Navigating the pressures of preventive compliance; 8. Causes and consequences of overseeing fiscal deficits; 9. Effectiveness, fairness, and responsiveness.
About the author
Fabio Franchino is Professor of Political Science at the Università degli Studi di Milano. He has published extensively on legislative and executive politics, especially in the European Union. He is the author of The Powers of the Union: Delegation in the EU (2007) which won the best book EUSA award. He has been the president of the European Political Science Association and co-editor of the Italian Political Science Review. He is currently an associate editor of European Union Politics.Camilla Mariotto is Assistant Professor of European Politics at Universität Innsbruck. She has published several academic articles on the politics and policies of the European Union, and European legislative and executive politics, with emphasis on policy implications. She has been the managing editor of the Italian Political Science Review between 2014 and 2018.
Summary
Spanning the period of 1994 to 2019, Balancing Pressures provides a comprehensive analysis of how the economy, national politics, and supranational politics shape economic policymaking in the European Union. It shows how these factors affect the controversies over its design, the outcome of negotiations, and the implementation of the policy.
