دانلود کتاب Governance and Politics in the Post-Crisis European Union

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Half title
Title page
Imprints page
Contents
Figures
Tables
Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Historical Milestones of EU Integration
Glossary
Abbreviations
1 Introduction: The European Union as a Political Regime, a Set of Policies and a Community after the Great Recession
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Integration through Crises
1.2.1 Six Decades of Integration: Two Critical Junctures and a Series of Many Other Small and Big Crises
1.3 2000s: The Decade of Crises
1.3.1 The Eurozone Crisis
1.3.2 The Crisis of the Management of Migration
1.3.3 The Crisis of Values
1.4 The EU’s Political Regime: Quo Vadis?
1.5 EU Policies: Between Integration by Stealth and Politicisation
1.5.1 A Seeming Paradox
1.5.2 Depoliticisation and Integration by Stealth
1.5.3 Contained Politicisation and Stagnation
1.5.4 ‘Bottom-up’ Politicisation and Selective Integration
1.6 The EU as a Community: From Disagreements to Differentiation?
1.6.1 The Initial Debate over the Democratic Deficit of the EU
1.6.2 Elusive Convergence and Conflicts of Values
1.6.3 Brexit and Differentiated Integration
References
Part I The EU’s Political Regime
2 European Regional Integration from the Twentieth to the Twenty-first Century
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The EU’s Political Regime in Context
2.3 The EC’s Development into the Main Forum of (Western) European Integration
2.4 Widening, Disintegration and Venue Choice
2.5 Policy and Polity Development by Trial and Error
2.6 Differentiation in Integration
2.7 The History of the EU as Political Community
Group Discussion
Topics for Individual Research
Further Readings
References
3 Institutions and Decision-Making in the EU
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The First Decades of the Integration Process
3.3 Decision-Making Differentiation: Supranationalism and Intergovernmentalism
3.4 The Supranational Decision-Making Regime
3.5 The Intergovernmental Decision-Making Regime
Group Discussion
Topics for Individual Research
Further Readings
References
4 Regulatory Networks and Policy Communities
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Tracing the Origins of Regulatory Networks and Policy Communities
4.2.1 Regulation
4.2.2 Governance
4.2.3 Networks and Policy Communities
4.3 Operationalising Regulatory Networks and Policy Communities
4.4 Policy Vignettes: Examples of Community and Network Interactions
4.4.1 Vaping: A Regulatory Network Catches a Community Unawares
4.4.2 Fracking: A Policy Community Informs Regulatory Network Preferences
4.4.3 Demographic Change: A Community Building and then Losing Momentum
Group Discussion
Topics for Individual Research
Further Readings
References
5 Rethinking EU Governance: From ‘Old’ to ‘New’ Approaches to Who Steers Integration
5.1 Introduction
5.2 New Intergovernmentalism
5.3 New Supranationalism
5.4 New Parliamentarism
5.5 Politics and the ‘New’ Dynamics of EU Governance
Group Discussion
Topics for Individual Research
Further Readings
References
Part II Key Policy Areas in Flux
6 Cohesion and the EU Budget: Is Conditionality Undermining Solidarity?
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Historical Overview
6.2.1 Reforms of the EU Budget
6.2.2 Reforms of EU Cohesion Policy
6.3 Current Institutional Framework
6.4 Recent Policy Developments
6.4.1 Ex ante Conditionality
6.4.2 Macroeconomic Conditionality
6.4.3 Structural Reform Conditionality
6.4.4 Values Conditionality (Rule of Law)
6.5 Current Political and Academic Controversies
6.6 Paradigmatic Case Study: Is Cohesion Policy Conditionality Effective and Legitimate?
6.6.1 Macroeconomic Conditionality: A Politicised and Blunt Tool?
6.6.2 Ex Ante Conditionality: A Sound Rationale with Mixed Success
6.6.3 Structural Reform Conditionality: From Weak Conditionality to Positive Incentives
6.6.4 Values Conditionality: A Political Time-bomb?
6.7 Conclusions
Group Discussion
Topics for Individual Research
Further Readings
References
7 Agriculture and Environment: Greening or Greenwashing?
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Historical Overview
7.3 Main Features of the Current Institutional Framework
7.4 Recent Policy Developments
7.5 Current Political and Academic Controversies
7.6 Analysis of a Paradigmatic Case Study
7.6.1 The Context of the 2013 CAP Reform and its Greening Component
7.6.2 The Commission’s Solution: Greening
7.6.3 From Greening to Greenwashing?
7.6.4 How Do We Explain What Happened?
Group Discussion
Topics for Individual Research
Further Readings
References
8 The Internal Market: Increasingly Differentiated?
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Historical Overview: The Single Market as an ‘Incomplete Contract’
8.3 Current Institutional Framework
8.4 Recent Policy Developments
8.5 Current Political and Academic Controversies
8.6 Paradigmatic Case Study: Brexit and Single Market – Increasingly Differentiated Markets
Group Discussion
Topics for Individual Research
Further Readings
References
9 The Economic and Monetary Union: How Did the Euro Area Get a Lender of Last Resort?
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Historical Overview
9.2.1 From the Snake to Maastricht (1969–91)
9.2.2 Forging the Euro and the Rise of the ECB (1991–2002)
9.3 Main Features of the Current Institutional Framework
9.4 Recent Policy Developments
9.4.1 Cooking the Crisis
9.4.2 Unlimited LoLR Interventions (2012–)
9.4.3 Financial Assistance Funds: From Patchwork to the European Monetary Fund?
9.5 Current Political and Academic Controversies
9.6 Paradigmatic Case Study: Is There a Keynesian Europe?
Group Discussion
Topics for Individual Research
Further Readings
References
10 Social Policy: Is the EU Doing Enough to Tackle Inequalities?
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Historical Overview
10.3 Main Features of the Current Institutional Framework
10.3.1 Social Regulation in the Internal Market
10.3.2 Neo-corporatism and the European Social Dialogue
10.3.3 Redistribution via the ESF
10.3.4 The Soft Coordination of National Welfare States
10.4 Recent Policy Developments
10.5 Current Political and Academic Controversies
10.5.1 What Are the Main Institutional Features of Today’s EU Socio-economic Governance?
10.5.2 Are We Going Towards More Social EU Integration?
10.5.3 Which Instruments Could Serve to Advance Social Integration and Tackle Inequalities?
10.6 Analysis of a Paradigmatic Case Study
Group Discussion
Topics for Individual Research
Further Readings
References
11 Labour Markets and Mobility: How to Reconcile Competitiveness and Social Justice?
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Historical Overview
11.2.1 Early Mobility and Enlargement Effect
11.2.2 East to West, South to North
11.3 Main Features of the Current Institutional Framework
11.3.1 Institutional Framework of Policy-making
11.3.2 Posted Workers as a Specific Category in EU Law
11.4 Recent Policy Developments
11.4.1 Crisis Response and the Promotion of Mobility
11.4.2 Enforcing and Adapting EU Law on Mobility
11.4.3 Portability of Unemployment Benefit
11.4.4 Establishing a European Labour Authority
11. 5 Current Political and Academic Controversies
11.5.1 Analysing Mobility in the Context of Imbalances
11.5.2 Benefit–Risk Balance for Host Countries
11.5.3 Benefit–Risk Balance for Home Countries
11.5.4 An EU Migrant Fund to Boost Integration
11.5.5 Fighting Poverty in Countries of Origin
11.6 Analysis of a Paradigmatic Case Study
11.6.1 Smoke and Mirrors around EU Mobility
11.6.2 Complaining about Free Movement, Fiddling with Benefits
11.6.3 Renegotiation and Referendum
Group Discussion
Topics for Individual Research
Further Readings
References
12 Managing the Refugee Crisis: A Divided and Restrictive Europe?
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Historical Overview
12.3 Main Features of the Current Institutional Framework
12.4 Recent Policy Developments
12.5 Current Political and Academic Controversies
12.6 Analysis of a Paradigmatic Case Study: The EBCG
Group Discussion
Topics for Individual Research
Further Readings
References
13 Security in the Schengen Area: Limiting Rights and Freedoms?
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Historical Overview
13.3 Main Features of the Current Institutional Framework
13.4 Recent Policy Developments
13.5 Current Political and Academic Controversies
13.6 Analysis of a Paradigmatic Case Study: The EES
Group Discussion
Topics for Individual Research
Further Readings
References
14 Trade Policy: Which Gains for Which Losses?
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Historical Overview
14.2.1 Institutional Development
14.2.2 Substantial Development
14.3 Current Institutional Framework
14.4 Recent Policy Developments
14.5 Current Political and Academic Controversies
14.6 Analysis of a Paradigmatic Case Study
Group Discussion
Topics for Individual Research
Further Readings
References
15 Global Tax Governance: Is the EU Promoting Tax Justice?
15.1 Introduction
15.2 Historical Overview
15.3 Current Institutional Framework
15.4 Recent Policy Developments
15.5 Political and Academic Controversies
15.6 Analysis of a Paradigmatic Case Study: Bureaucratic and State Politics on the CCCTB
Group Discussion
Topics for Individual Research
Further Readings
References
16 The CSDP in Transition: Towards ‘Strategic Autonomy’?
16.1 Introduction
16.2 Historical Overview
16.3 Current Institutional Framework
16.4 Recent Policy Developments
16.5 Current Political and Academic Controversies
16.6 Analysis of a Paradigmatic Case Study: EU–NATO Relations
Group Discussion
Topics for Individual Research
Further Readings
References
Part III Existential Debates
17 North and South, East and West: Is it Possible to Bridge the Gap?
17.1 Introduction
17.2 Historical Overview
17.3 Main Institutional Issues at Stake
17.3.1 The First Enlargement: Oil Crisis and Increasing Economic and Social Heterogeneity
17.3.2 The Southern Enlargement: The Issue of Cohesion
17.3.3 Eastern Enlargement: Strengthening the East’s Markets and States
17.4 Main Policy Developments at Stake: Market Integration and its Effects on the Developmental Gap
17.5 Current Political and Academic Controversies: Peripheries in Crisis
17.5.1 Austerity versus Solidarity in the Wake of the Debt Crisis
17.5.2 The Drawbacks of FDI Dependency
17.6 Case Studies: Ireland in the West, Hungary in the East
17.6.1 The Irish Success Story
17.6.2 Hungary’s Declining Trajectory
Group Discussion
Topics for Individual Research
Further Readings
References
18 Democracy and the Rule of Law: How Can the EU Uphold its Common Values?
18.1 Introduction
18.2 Historical Overview
18.3 Main Institutional Issues at Stake
18.4 Main Policy Developments
18.4.1 The Rule of Law as a Sine Qua Non Condition for Accession
18.4.2 New Challenges to Democracy and the Rule of Law
18.4.3 New Tools
18.5 Current Political and Academic Controversies
18.6 Analysis of a Paradigmatic Case Study: Towards a New Rule of Law Conditionality?
Group Discussion
Topics for Individual Research
Further Readings
References
19 Democracy and Disintegration: Does the State of Democracy in the EU Put the Integrity of the Union at Risk?
19.1 Introduction
19.2 Historical Overview: The Quest for EU Legitimacy
19.3 Main Institutional Issues at Stake: A Third Way?
19.4 Main Policy Developments
19.5 Current Political and Academic Controversies
19.6 Analysis of a Paradigmatic Case Study: Brexit and the Integrity of the Union
Group Discussion
Topics for Individual Research
Further Readings
References
Appendices
Appendix 1 EU Institutions and Organs
European Parliament
European Commission
Council of the European Union
The Eurogroup
European Council
Euro Summit
European Central Bank (ECB)
Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)
European Court of Auditors
European Investment Bank (EIB)
European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
Committee of the Regions
European Ombudsman
European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF)
Appendix 2 Decision-Making in the EU: The Ordinary Legislative Procedure
Appendix 3 Distribution of Competences between the EU and the Member States
Appendix 4 Differentiated Integration and Varying Membership
Appendix 5 Who is an EU Member State?
Appendix 6 Who Does What in the EU?
Index