TY - BOOK A1 - Dawson, Mark A1 - de Witte, Floris T1 - EU Law and Governance N2 - What is the EU for? In light of the current state of European integration, EU law cannot meaningfully be appreciated without understanding the political, social and cultural context within which it operates. This textbook proposes a fresh, accessible and interdisciplinary take on the subject that is suitable for one-semester and introductory courses wishing to engage the reader with the wider context of the EU project. It situates the institutions, legal order and central policy domains of the EU in their context and offer students the tools to critically analyse and reflect on European integration and its consequences. With pedagogical features such as further reading, class questions and essay/exams questions to support learning, this textbook enables students to form their own informed opinion on whether the EU offers an appropriate answer to the many questions that it is asked. Y1 - 2022 SN - 9781108836173 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108864046 PB - Cambridge ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Freudlsperger, Christian T1 - Trade Policy in Multilevel Government BT - Organizing Openness N2 - Trade Policy in Multilevel Government investigates how multilevel polities organize openness in a globalizing political and economic environment. In recent years, the multilevel politics of trade caught a broader public's attention, not least due to the Wallonian regional parliament's initial rejection of the EU-Canada trade deal in 2016. In all multilevel polities, competencies held by states and regions have increasingly become the subject of international rule-setting. This is particularly so in the field of trade which has progressively targeted so-called 'behind the border' regulatory barriers. In their reaction to this 'deep trade' agenda, constituent units in different multilevel polities have shown widely varying degrees of openness to liberalizing their markets. Why is that? This book argues that domestic institutions and procedures of intergovernmental relations are the decisive factor. Countering a widely-held belief among practitioners and analysts of trade policy that involving subcentral actors complicates trade negotiations, it demonstrates that the more voice a multilevel polity affords its constituent units in trade policy-making, the less the latter have an incentive to eventually exit from emerging trade deals. While in shared rule systems constituent unit governments are directly represented along the entirety of the policy cycle, in self-rule systems territorial representation is achieved merely indirectly. Shared rule systems are hence more effective than self-rule systems in organizing openness to trade. The book tests its theory's explanatory power on the understudied case of international procurement liberalization in extensive studies of three systems of multilevel government: Canada, the European Union, and the United States. Y1 - 2020 SN - 9780198856122 PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Walter, Stefanie A1 - Ray, Ari A1 - Redeker, Nils T1 - The Politics of Bad Options: Why the Eurozone's Problems Have Been So Hard to Resolve N2 - Why was the Eurozone crisis so difficult to resolve? Why was it resolved in a manner in which some countries bore a much larger share of the pain than other countries? Why did no country leave the Eurozone rather than implement unprecedented austerity? Who supported and opposed the different policy options in the crisis domestically, and how did the distributive struggles among these groups shape crisis politics? Building on macro-level statistical data, original survey data from interest groups, and qualitative comparative case studies, this book argues and shows that the answers to these questions revolve around distributive struggles about how the costs of the Eurozone crisis should be divided among countries, and within countries, among different socioeconomic groups. Together with divergent but strongly held ideas about the 'right way' to conduct economic policy and asymmetries in the distribution of power among actors, severe distributive concerns of important actors lie at the root of the difficulties of resolving the Eurozone crisis as well as the difficulties to substantially reform EMU. The book provides new insights into the politics of the Eurozone crisis by emphasizing three perspectives that have received scant attention in existing research: a comparative perspective on the Eurozone crisis by systematically comparing it to previous financial crises, an analysis of the whole range of policy options, including the ones not chosen, and a unified framework that examines crisis politics not just in deficit-debtor, but also in surplus-creditor countries. Y1 - 2020 UR - https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-politics-of-bad-options-9780198857020?cc=de&lang=en&# SN - 9780198857020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198857013.001.0001 PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Bobić, Ana T1 - The Individual in the Economic and Monetary Union: A Study of Legal Accountability Y1 - 2024 UR - https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/individual-in-the-economic-and-monetary-union/65D51B5364962C6086CA7C8456FD43BE SN - 9781009207942 PB - Cambridge University Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Bobić, Ana T1 - The Jurisprudence of Constitutional Conflict in the European Union N2 - A comparative and comprehensive account of the jurisprudence of constitutional conflict between the Court of Justice and national courts with the power of constitutional review. This monograph addresses the incidences of, and reasons for, constitutional clashes in the application and enforcement of EU law. It aims to determine how the principle of primacy of EU law works in reality and whether the jurisprudence of the courts under analysis supports this concept. To this end, the book explores the three areas of constitutional conflict: ultra vires review, identity review, and fundamental rights review. The book substantiates the descriptive and strengthens the normative contributions of the theory of constitutional pluralism in relation to the web of relations in the European judicial space. By examining the influence that the jurisprudence of constitutional conflict has on the balance of powers between the Court of Justice and constitutional courts, the volume develops the judicial triangle as an analytical tool that depicts the consequences for the horizontal (constitutional courts vis-à-vis the Court of Justice) and vertical judicial relationships (Court of Justice vis-à-vis ordinary national courts; constitutional courts vis-à-vis ordinary national courts). By offering a thorough compilation of the jurisprudence of constitutional conflict in the EU, The Jurisprudence of Constitutional Conflict in the European Union improves our understanding of the principle of primacy of EU law and its limits, as well as reinforces the theory of constitutional pluralism in explaining and guiding judicial power relations and interactions in the EU. Y1 - 2022 UR - https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-jurisprudence-of-constitutional-conflict-in-the-european-union-9780192847034?cc=de&lang=en&# SN - 9780192847034 PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Akbik, Adina T1 - The European Parliament as an Accountability Forum: Overseeing the Economic and Monetary Union N2 - This book provides the first in-depth empirical study of the European Parliament’s powers of scrutiny of the executive in the European Union (EU), focusing on the politically salient field of the Economic and Monetary Union. The expansion of executive decision-making during the euro crisis was accompanied by an empowerment of the European Parliament through legislative oversight. This book examines how the European Parliament exercises that oversight on a day-to-day basis and thus contributes to political accountability at the EU level. Building on an innovative analytical framework for the study of parliamentary questions and answers, Adina Akbik sheds light on the European Parliament’s possibilities and limitations to hold EU executive bodies accountable more generally. Case studies cover the period 2012–2019 and include the European Central Bank in banking supervision, the European Commission, the Eurogroup, and the Economic and Financial Affairs Council. Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108886611 PB - Cambridge University Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Woźniakowski, Tomasz P. T1 - Fiscal unions : economic integration in Europe and the United States Y1 - 2022 UR - https://global.oup.com/academic/product/fiscal-unions-9780192858436?cc=de&lang=en&# SN - 9780192858436, 0192858432 PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Hassel, Anke A1 - Wegrich, Kai T1 - How to do Public Policy N2 - How to Do Public Policy offers a guide to students and practitioners on how to improve problem-solving with policies in a political world. It integrates insights from applied policy analysis and studies of the policy process to develop a framework that conceives policy-making as structured by two spheres of action - the 'engine room' of specialists and experts in government agencies, NGOs, research organizations etc., on the one hand, and the political 'superstructure' of politicians, key public stakeholders and the public, on the other hand. Understanding the different logics of the engine room and the superstructure is key for successful policy-making. The dual structure of policy-making provides a perspective on policy-analysis (interactive policy analysis) and policy-making (actor-centred policy-making) that moves from the focus on individual and specific measures, towards understanding and shaping the relation and interaction between policy interventions, the institutional context and the stakeholders involved or affected. Part I of the book presents the basic analytical concepts needed to understand the policy process and the structures and dynamics involved in it, as well as to understand how and why actors behave the way they do-and how to engage with different types of actors. Part II moves further into the nuts and bolts of policy-making, including policy design, implementation, and evaluation. Part III introduces and explores three key aspects of the capacity to make good policies: engagement with stakeholders, the process of policy coordination in a context of interdependence, and the role of institutions. Y1 - 2022 UR - https://global.oup.com/academic/product/how-to-do-public-policy-9780198747000?q=9780198747000&cc=de&lang=en# SN - 9780198747000 PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Hassel, Anke A1 - Palier, Bruno ED - Hassel, Anke ED - Palier, Bruno T1 - Growth Strategies and Welfare Reforms BT - How Have Growth Regimes Evolved? N2 - Growth and Welfare in Advanced Capitalist Economies takes stock of the major economic challenges that advanced industrial democracies have faced since the early 1990s and the responses by governments to them. It has three goals: firstly, to further our understanding of how political economies have transformed over the past decades; secondly, to analyse the contribution of governments to these changes, by looking at their growth strategies and thirdly, to highlight and analyse the role of the reforms of welfare systems in this transformative change. In a nutshell, this book maps and provides general understanding of the evolution of growth regimes in advanced capitalist countries. It identifies five main growth regimes in contemporary advanced capitalist economies (three export-led and two domestic demand-led ones). To do so the book combines a supply side approach to economic growth as advocated by the Varieties of Capitalism Literature (OUP, 2001) with a demand side perspective as the recent discussion on growth models has exemplified. It argues that all political economies consist of growth regimes, which are based on a set of institutions that shape the supply side of the economy as well as on demand drivers such as government spending and private consumption. Both supply and demand are heavily shaped by the welfare state which provides for skills through education systems and stimulates demand through high social spending and private pension funds. The book focuses on the analysis of welfare reforms as growth strategies pursued by governments in an era characterised by financialization and the rise of the knowledge economy. Y1 - 2021 SN - 9780198866176 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198866176.001.0001 PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford ER -