European Integration
and Supranational Governance
Wayne Sandholtz and Alec Stone Sweet
Oxford University Press
1998
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From the Dustcover:
The European Union began in 1957 as a treaty among six nations but today constitutes a supranational polity - one that creates rules that are binding on its 15 member countries and their citizens. This magisterial study confronts some of the most enduring questions posed by the remarkable evolution of the EU: Why does policy-making sometimes migrate from the member states to the European Union? And why has integration proceeded more rapidly in some policy domains than in others?
A distinguished team of scholars led by Wayne Sandholtz and Alec Stone Sweet offers a fresh theory and clear propositions on the development of the EU. Combining broad data and probing case studies, the volume finds solid support for these propositions ina variety of policy domains. The coherent theoretical approach and extensive empirical analyses together constitute a significant challenge to approaches that see the EU as a straightforward product of a member-state interests, power, and bargaining. This volume clearly demonstrates that a nascent transnational society and supranational institutions have played decisivie roles in constructing the European Union.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Integration, Supranational Governance, and the Institutionalization of the European Polity.
Chapter 2: The Path to European Integration: A Historical-Institutinalist Analysis.
Chapter 3: The Institutional Terrain of the European Union.
Chapter 4: From Free Trade to Supranational Polity: The European Court and Integration.
Chapter 5: The Emergence of a Supranational Telecommunications Regime.
Chapter 6: The Liberalization and European Reregulation of Air Transport.
Chapter 7: Creating Supranational Authority in Monetary and Exchange-Rate Policy: The Sources and Effects of EMU.
Chapter 8: The Engines of Integration? Supranational Autonomy and Influence in the European Union.
Chapter 9: Citizen Support for Policy Integration.
Chapter 10: Institution-Building from below and above: The European Community in Gloval Environmental Politics.
Chapter 11: Rules, Transgovernmentalism, and the Expansion of European Political Cooperation.
Chapter 12: Regional Integration Theory: Understanding Our Past and Anticipating Our Future.
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