Since the early 2000s, reforms in the area of public ethics have represented a significant part in the European Commission's efforts to improve its internal governance and democratic legitimacy, and address the crisis of public confidence in European integration.
This book comprises a study of ethics and public integrity issues in the administrative services of the European Commission. The author traces the reforms implemented in this area since the early 2000s, and asks whether and how they have shaped Commission officials thinking about appropriate behaviour in public...
Since the early 2000s, reforms in the area of public ethics have represented a significant part in the European Commission's efforts to improve its...
The EU plays an increasingly important role in issues such as the fight against organised crime and the management of migration flows, transforming the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ) into a priority of the EU's political and legislative agenda.
This book investigates whether institutional change - the gradual communitarisation of the AFSJ - has triggered policy change, and in doing so, explores the nature and direction of this policy change. By analysing the role of the EU's institutions in a systematic, theory-informed and comparative way, it provides rich...
The EU plays an increasingly important role in issues such as the fight against organised crime and the management of migration flows, transforming...
To what extent is business activity governed at a European scale? Since the advent of the recent economic crisis, the EU's choices about the euro, debt ratios and interest rates have caught the headlines and highlighted the importance of EU decision-making arenas. However, these macro-economic events actually tell us only part of the story about the extent to which business activity is now governed at a European scale. Based upon original research on four manufactured or processed goods industries (cars, wine, pharmaceuticals, and aquaculture), and driven by theory that is constructivist,...
To what extent is business activity governed at a European scale? Since the advent of the recent economic crisis, the EU's choices about the euro, deb...
How institutional conflicts arise in international political orders and the conditions shaping the outcomes of such conflicts has become the object of considerable contemporary focus.
This book considers the dynamics of institutional conflict and institutional change in international organizations, specifically focusing on the European Union, the most highly integrated international political order on the globe. In a world where political decision making increasingly takes place above the nation state level, it theorises the social mechanisms that lead to the point at which these...
How institutional conflicts arise in international political orders and the conditions shaping the outcomes of such conflicts has become the object...
This book offers the first comprehensive analysis after the Lisbon Treaty came into force of the EU Presidency's impact on national administrations in the Member States of Poland, Denmark and Cyprus before, during and after the Presidency. Placing the practical issues facing officials and policy-makers into a "governmentality" framework, it analyses the impact on the daily activities of bureaucrats and ministers.
The book utilises comprehensive and novel empirical material including around 100 interviews with key officials, documentary sources and academic literature. It...
This book offers the first comprehensive analysis after the Lisbon Treaty came into force of the EU Presidency's impact on national administrations...
This book analyses how national parliaments and parliamentary parties performed their legislative, representative and control functions during the reform of European economic governance. Focusing on domestic approvals of anti-crisis measures (EFSF, ESM and the Fiscal Compact) in all member states of the Eurozone, the book aims at establishing to what extent national parliaments and parliamentary parties secured their competences in EU policy-making during that process.
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, In order to address that question the book employs an interdisciplinary...
This book analyses how national parliaments and parliamentary parties performed their legislative, representative and control functions during the ...
The complex relationship between globalization and European integration was shaped mainly in the 1970s. During this decade, globalization began, for the first time, to threaten Western European prosperity.
Using an innovative approach, the book shows how western Europeans coped with the challenges of globalization during a time of deep economic crisis from 1973-1986. It examines the evolution of economic and social policies at the national, European and global level and expands beyond the European Economic Community (EEC) by analysing the various solutions envisaged by European...
The complex relationship between globalization and European integration was shaped mainly in the 1970s. During this decade, globalization began, fo...
