Constructing a Policy-Making State ? Policy Dynamics in the EU

The contributors are leading scholars in the policy sectors under review The volume gives the reader a clear but sophisticated account of how the EU policy process really works Constructing a Policy-Making State? sets out to examine the processes by which Europeanization takes place. Europeanization is defined as the process by which the key decisions about public policies are gradually transferred to the European level (or for new policy areas, emerge at the European level). This is in contrast to definitions of Europeanization which focus on the adaption of member states to European public policies. Thus, the main focus is whether a European Union 'policy-making state' is being created via changes in the distribution of power between member states and the European level institutions over time. In addition to several overview chapters (such as on agenda setting in the EU), there are twelve sectoral studies which analyse the differing trajectories and outcomes of the Europeanization process and the extent to which the European Union can make 'authoritative allocations'. The case studies have been selected in order to illustrate the degree of cross-sectoral variation in the process of Europeanization, from sectors which have yet to see very much Europeanization, such as health, to sectors such as competition policy which are almost fully Europeanized. The book is consciously multi-theoretic in its approach, drawing on a range of theories and concepts, from theories of European integration, to theories of public policy processes.

Contents Preface Part I 1: Jeremy Richardson: Supranational State Building in the European Union 2: Sebastiaan Princen: Agenda-Setting and the Formation of an EU Policy-Making State Part II 3: Michael Blauberger: Competition Policy: the Evolution of Commission Control 4: Geoffrey Dudley and Jeremy Richardson: From the Treaty of Paris to Globalization: Steel and its 'Escape' from EU Governance 5: Carsten Daugbjerg: Globalization and Internal Policy Dynamics in the Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy 6: Andrew Jordan, David Benson, Rüdiger Wurzel, and Anthony Zito: Environmental Policy: Governing by Multiple Instruments? 7: Sonia Mazey: Policy Entrepreneurship, Group Mobilisation and the Creation of a New Policy Domain: Women's Rights and the European Union Part III 8: Burkard Eberlein: Inching Towards a Common Energy Policy: Entrepreneurship, Incrementalism, and Windows of Opportunity 9: Dermot Hodson: The EMU Paradox: Centralization and Decentralization in EU Macroeconomic Policy 10: Emiliano Grossman and Patrick Leblond: Financial Regulation in Europe: From the Battle of the Systems to a Jacobinist EU 11: Arne Niemann: The Dynamics of EU Migration Policy: from Maastricht to Lisbon 12: Andreas Dür: The EU's Foreign Economic Policies: Limits to Delegation 13: Michael Smith: Developing a 'Comprehensive Approach' to International Security: Institutional Learning and the CSDP 14: Scott Greer: Polity-Making without Policy-Making: European Union Health Care Services Policy 15: Gerda Falkner: Promoting Policy Dynamism: The Pathways Interlinking Neofunctionalism and Integovernmentalism 16: Christoph Knill and Jale Tosun: Governance Institutions and Policy Implementation in the European Union 17: Jeremy Richardson: The Onward March of Europeanization: Tectonic Movement and Seismic Events