Comparative Federalism: The European Union and the United States in Comparative Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780199291106 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 384 str.

Dr Anand Menon; Martin A. Schain

Opis

Comparative federalism is now an important topic, with scholarly work comparing the US and EU 'proliferating rapidly'. The present volume seeks to build on and contribute to this growing literature, by developing a systematic comparison of the institutions, policies and developmental patterns of the European Union and the United States.

O autorze

Anand Menon is Professor of European Politics and Director of the European Research Institute at the University of Birmingham. He previously spent ten years as Lecturer in European politics at the University of Oxford, where he was also a Fellow St. Antony's College. Prior to that, he gained his BA M.Phil and D.Phil from the same university. Martin A. Schain is Professor of Politics, and Director of the Center for Europe­an Stud­ies, New York University. He is the author and editor of numerous books on Europe and France, and has also pub­lished many scholarly articles and book chapters on politics and immigration in France, Europe and the United States, the politics of the extreme right in France, politi­cal parties in France, and trade unions in France and Britain.