Buonanno / Nugent Policies and Policy Processes of the European Union

2. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-352-01114-2
Verlag: Macmillan Education
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 361 Seiten, Ebook (PDF)

Reihe: The European Union Series

The dynamic and far-reaching system of European Union policymaking is analysed in this major new edition of a much-praised textbook. It offers the most integrated understanding of EU policy available. Major approaches to policymaking – including intergovernmentalism, neofunctionalism, supranationalism and critical theory – are presented and supplemented with the authors’ own integrating framework: federal integration. It is only through using all these perspectives in conjunction that a systematic and comprehensive evaluation of the EU’s interests and actors in key policy areas can be made. Today, the European Union faces a period of untold crisis. This text illustrates that despite the dire warnings of an EU approaching collapse, there is enough evidence to suggest EU governance is sufficiently flexible to adapt successfully to today’s sustained challenges. While the text covers the EU’s main policy areas – including those on the single market, Economic and Monetary Union, foreign policy, migration and border control, social and regional policies, and the budget – it does not become mired in policy minutiae but locates key policies within a wider, applied, framework. As such, it is the key introduction to the subject for students of Politics and European Studies at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buonanno, Laurie

Nugent, Neill

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- 1. The Policy Portfolio.- 2. Traditional and Critical Theoretical Approaches.- 3. The Federal Integration Approach.- 4. The Principal Policy Institutions.- 5. Other Important Policy Actors.- 6. Key Features of Policy Processes.- 7. The Policy Cycle.- 8. Policy-making Modes.- 9. The Internal Market.- 10. Competition Policy.- 11. Agriculture Policy.- 12. Environment Policy.- 13. Social and Cohesion Policies.- 14. Economic and Monetary Union.- 15. The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice.- 16. Migration and Border control Policies.- 17. Trade Policy.- 18. Foreign and External Security Policy.- 19. The EU’s Budget.- 20. Conclusions and Future Challenges.

Über Autor(innen)

Laurie Buonanno is Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo State College and Director of the Institute for European Union Studies at SUNY. She is co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of European Public Policies. Neill Nugent is Emeritus Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has been a Lifetime Achievement Award Winner of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies ((UACES). His books include The Government and Politics of the European Union, which is currently in its 8th edn.