European Union

<p>A key textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students of contemporary European politics <i>European Union: Power and policy-making </i>4th edition offers a comprehensive and accessible analysis of the European Union policy process.</p><p>Intended to advance understanding of the EU as a now mature and ongoing policy system this book addresses the central issues relating to the distribution of power and influence in the European Union including:</p><ul> <li>Theoretical perspectives</li> <li>The roles of key institutions in the processing of policy problems</li> <li>Different channels of representation</li> <li>The EU as a policy-making state</li> </ul><p>Written by a distinguished group of international scholars this new edition will also appeal to the worldwide community of researchers on the EU.</p><p>New to this edition:</p><ul> <li>New chapters on The Politics of Multispeed Europe The Distribution of Power Among Institutions EU Agencies Covert Integration in the European Union and Political Representation and Democracy in the EU</li> <li>New authors and theoretical approaches on many topics such as differentiated integration opt-outs and multi-speed integration negotiation and coalition building the interplay of judicial and legislative policy-making power distribution agency behaviour integration by subterfuge the democratic deficit</li> <li>fully updated data and content throughout</li> </ul>