European Union
Power and Policy-making
Edited by: Jeremy Richardson
European Union: Power and Policy-making is a European Union: Power and Policy-making is a
best-selling introduction to the policy-making processes at work of the European Union.
Written by some of the leading authorities in the field, this new edition has been
significantly improved to provide students with even more authoritative and comprehensive
coverage of how European union policy is made.
Additions to the 2nd edition:
Three new chapters on Parliaments and policy-making, Monetary Union and integration, and
Democracy and accountability in the EU
Fully revised and up-dated chapters to take into account the very latest theoretical and
empirical developments in EU policy process
New contributors to add to the already impressive range of authors
Contents:
1. Part 1 Theoretical and Historical Perspectives 2. Policy-making in the EU Jeremy
Richardson 3. The Development of the European Ideas Sonia Mazey 4. Integration Theory and
the Study of the European Policy Process Laura Cram 5.
Part 2 Agenda-setting and
Institutional Processing 6. Agenda Setting in the EU Guy Peters 7. A Maturing Bureaucracy?
Thomas Christiansen 8. Parliaments and Policy-making Torbjorn Bergman and Tapio Raunio 9.
Council of Ministers Thomas Christiansen 10. The National Co-ordination of European
Policy-making Guy Peters and Vincent Wright 11. The Court of Justice and the European
Policy Process Daniel Wincott 12.
Part 3 Channels of
Representation 13. European Elections and the European Voter Mark Franklin 14. The Logic
of Organisation Sonia Mazey and Jeremy Richardson 15. By-passing the Nation State? Michael
Keating and Liesbet Hooghe 16.
Part 4 A Supranational
State? 17. Enlarging the EU Gerda Falkner and Michael Nentwich 18. The EU as an
International Actor Michael Smith 19. European Regulation Mark Thatcher 20. Monetary Union
and Integration Valerio Lintner 21. Eroding EU Policies Jeremy Richardson 22. Democracy
and Accountability in the EU Michael Newman
388 pages