European Union power and policy-making

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Policy-making in the EU : interests, ideas and garbage cans of primeval soup / Jeremy Richardson -- European integration : the European Union : reaching an equilibrium? / Brigid Laffan and Sonia Mazey -- Europeanisation of public policy / Andrea Lenschow -- Theories of European integration : assumptions and hypotheses / Frank Schimmelfennig and Berthold Rittberger -- The European Commission : the European executive between continuity and change / Thomas Christiansen -- Fluctuant nec merguntur : the European parliament, national parliaments, and European integration / Katrin Auel and Berthold Rittberger -- The Council of Ministers : facilitating interaction and developing actorness in the EU / Thomas Christiansen -- Judicial law-making and European integration : the European Court of Justice / Margaret McCown -- The EU budgetary procedure in the constitutional debate / Henrik Enderlein and Johannes Lindner -- The process of enlargement : problems, interests, and norms / Frank Schimmelfennig -- European elections and the European voter / Mark Franklin -- Interest groups and EU policy-making : organisational logic and venue shopping / Sonia Mazey and Jeremy Richardson -- Bypassing the nation state? : regions and the EU policy process / Michael Keating and.

Elizabeth Hooghe -- The EU as an international actor / Michael Smith -- European regulation / Mark Thatcher -- European macroeconomic governance / Erik Jones -- Implementation / Christoph Knill -- After the 'permissive consensus' : still searching for democracy / Michael Newman.