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Informationen zum Autor Martin Heipertz is Senior Officer to the Board of Directors of the European Investment Bank! Luxembourg. He has previously worked in the Fiscal Policy Divisions of the European Central Bank and the German Ministry of Finance and has served as Economic Adviser to the EU Special Representative in Kosovo. Amy Verdun is Professor of Political Science! Jean Monnet Chair Ad Personam and Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the University of Victoria! Canada. She is the author! editor or co-editor of 14 books including European Responses to Globalization and Financial Market Integration: Perceptions of Economic and Monetary Union in Britain! France and Germany (2000) and EMU After 10 Years: What Have We Learned in Political Science? (2010). Klappentext This 2010 book analyses the fraught history and politics of the Stability and Growth Pact from its origins to the present economic crisis. Zusammenfassung One cannot understand the euro without understanding the Stability and Growth Pact. The SGP is central to Economic and Monetary Union in Europe since it regulates the fiscal policies of EU Member States. This book analyses the fraught history and politics of the SGP from its origins to the present. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Jean-Claude Juncke; 1. The politics of the Stability and Growth Pact; Part I: 2. States, intergovernmentalism and negotiating the SGP; 3. Opening the box: a domestic politics approach to the SGP; 4. The functional logic behind the SGP; 5. The role of experts and ideas; Part II: 6. Implementation of the SGP in good and in bad times; 7. From bad times to crisis; 8. The SGP before the European Court of Justice; 9. The SGP in times of financial turbulence and economic crisis; 10. Conclusion: the past, present and future of the SGP and implications for European integration theory; Appendix.
