Synopses & Reviews
European integration is at a turning point with implications for all member states and their citizens. The book examines the process of European integration and highlights issues of institutional dynamics and prospects for democracy.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Amsterdam and beyond
PART I: CHANGING INSTITUTIONS
2. The Amsterdam Treaty: The blueprint for the future institutional balance?, Gerda Falkner and Michael Nentwich
3. The European Commission: A balancing act between autonomy and dependence, Christian Lequesne
4. The Slow March of European Legislation: The implementation of directives, Giuseppe Ciavarini Azzi
5. Beyond Amsterdam: Regional integration as social process, Beate Kohler-Koch
PART II: PROSPECTS FOR DEMOCRACY
6. Executive Selection in the European Union: Does the Commission President investiture procedure reduce the democratic deficit?, Simon Hix
7. Justifying Comitology: The promise of deliberation, Jürgen Neyer
8. Political Representation in the EU: A common whole, various wholes or just a hole?, Karlheinz Neunreither
PART III: FLEXIBILITY AND THE CHALLENGE OF ENLARGEMENT
9. Negotiating Flexible Integration in the Amsterdam Treaty, Alexander C-G. Stubb
10. Flexibility: A tool of integration or a restraint on disintegration?, Helen Wallace
11. Abuses of Asymmetry: Privilege and exclusion, Peter Leslie
12. East of Adam: The implications for eastern enlargement of the Amsterdam Treaty, Ulrich Sedelmeier
PART IV: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE
13. Precedents and Present Events: An institutional perspective on treaty reform, Ulf Sverdrup
14. A Blairite Treaty: Neo-liberalism and regulated capitalism in the Treaty of Amsterdam, Mark A. Pollack
15. Constitutional Settlements and the Citizen after the Treaty of Amsterdam, Jo Shaw
16. The Embedded Acquis Communautaire: Transmission belt and prism of new governance, Antje Wiener