European Integration and Consensus Politics in the Low Countries

ISBN-13: 9780415659796 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 250 str.

Hans Vollaard; Jan Beyers; Patrick Dumont

Opis

Much of the empirical research on Europeanization that has mainly focused on the larger member states, and tends to ignore that most Europeans live in small states and that most of the EU member-states are small states. This text investigates how the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, respond to European integration and how their response is shaped by the consensual nature of their political institutions.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  List of tables and figures  List of abbreviations  Author information  1 Introduction: European integration and consensus politics Jan Beyers, Hans Vollaard and Patrick Dumont  2 Coping with Domestic and European Complexity: How Consensus Politics is Maintained in the Low Countries' Governments Patrick Dumont, Arco Timmermans and Catherine Moury  3 European Integration and the Flexibility of Consensus Politics in the Parliaments of the Low Countries Astrid Spreitzer and Arco Timmermans  4 The Impact of European Integration on Within-Party Organizational Dynamics: More or Less Consensus Politics? Benoît Rihoux, Astrid Spreitzer and Ruud Koole  5 Europeanization, constitutional review and consensus politics in the Low Countries Patricia Popelier and Wim Voermans  6 Consensus politics as administrative practice: The Europeanization of external advice seeking? Caspar F. van den Berg, Caelesta Braun and Trui Steen  7 Plus ça change, plus c’est pareil: European integration and interest group politics in the Low Countries Jan Beyers, Caelesta Braun and Markus Haverland  8 Same as It Ever Was? The (Lack of) Influence of European Integration on Corporatism in the Low Countries Barbara Vis and Jaap Woldendorp  9 Day-to-day EU Coordination in the Benelux: From Domestic Consensus Politics to Consensual EU Coordination - Peter Bursens, Kathleen Hielscher and Mendeltje van Keulen  10 European integration, consensus politics and family migration policy in Belgium and the Netherlands Maarten Vink, Saskia Bonjour and Ilke Adam  11 Ratifying the European Constitutional Treaty by referendum: The end of consensus politics? Joop van Holsteyn and Hans Vollaard  12 Epilogue Rudy Andeweg