Making Policy In Europe

This Second Edition of Making Policy in Europe is fully revised and expanded toprovide the most uptodate introduction to the study of policymaking in theEuropea... » 

This Second Edition of Making Policy in Europe is fully revised and expanded toprovide the most uptodate introduction to the study of policymaking in theEuropean Union EU.The first part of the book introduces the different perspectives to study ofthe EU as a political system and provides a framework for the study of themain actors and institutions in the decisionmaking process from transnationallobbying within Brussels to the implementation of EU law in national memberstates.Part two introduces each of the main sectoral policy areas. The common marketis introduced and reviewed before students are provided with detailed studiesof policies and policymaking in telecommunications the environment energyeducation immigration and policing. In each case the complex interactionbetween different interests and actors at different levels in the EU apparatusis richly illustrated and the future prospects for further integration fullyexamined.The final part of the book looks at the future economic and political structureof the EU and the direction of contemporary studies of the EU and Europeanintegration. A completely new chapter reviews European monetary union anotherlooks at the important enlargement question and finally the editors reviewthe wider implications for Europe and the EU political system.This book will be essential reading for another generation of students of theEU European pubic policy and European integration.In each case the complex interaction between interests and actors at differentlevels in the EU apparatus is richly illustrated and the future prospects forfurther integration are examined. «