Frameworks of the European Union's Policy Process

<p>The book advances the state of the European Union's policy theory by taking stock of seven promising frameworks of the policy process systematically comparing their limitations and strengths and offering a strategy to develop robust research agendas. Frameworks may constitute competing policy explanations depending on assumptions they make about EU institutional and issue complexity. The frameworks include detailed analyses of multi-level governance advocacy coalitions punctuated equilibrium multiple streams policy learning normative power Europe and constructivism. Besides generating a fertile dialogue that transcends the narrow confines of EU policy contributions highlight the value of intellectual pluralism and the need for clear and rigorous explanations of the policy process.</p><p>This book was published as a special issue of the <em>Journal of European Public Policy</em>.</p>