The volume includes contributions by members of the Transatlantic Policy Consortium (TPC). Earlier versions of these essays have been presented and discussed at the TPC Colloquium on Liberalization and Democratic Governance held in Speyer, Germany in June 2003. The contributions focus on sub-themes that are critical on both sides of the Atlantic: the role of the state with social and economic actors, policy development and regulatory challenges to the state, and the changing nature of democratic institutions and participation. The volume provides a unique insight into European and American...

It is a commonplace that pollution knows no borders, and that environmental law must allow for cross-border implementation. The European Union specifies this principle in EC directives on integrated pollution prevention and control (IPPC), on environmental impact assessment (EIA), and on the control of major accident hazards involving dangerous substances (Seveso II). This is the first book to investigate from both empirical and normative perspectives the effectiveness of these directives at the national level. It provides by far the most extensive comparative analysis and evaluation of the...

This book is about how the WTO functions as a public organization. It analyzes and evaluates the WTO from a public administration perspective which is absent from the current debate on WTO reforms dominated by the traditional view that only nation states matter, not international organizations.

Die Referate und Diskussionen des Sammelbandes geben einen Einblick in die Dynamik der Entwicklungen in der Praxis und zeigen L sungsm glichkeiten f r die kommunale Selbstverwaltung auf.

This book is about how the WTO functions as a public organization. It analyzes and evaluates the WTO from a public administration perspective which is absent from the current debate on WTO reforms dominated by the traditional view that only nation states matter, not international organizations.