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The New Member States and the European Union

Author : Michael J. Baun

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 256 pages

File Size : 28,75 MB

Release : 2013

Category : Law

ISBN : 0415679273

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This book examines the impact of EU membership on the foreign policies of the 12 new member states that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007. Among scholars of European politics there is a general consensus that membership in the European Union changes the countries that join. Yet considerable debate remains over what exactly changes, to what extent, how or why these changes happen, and why some countries, policies, and institutions change more than others. Expert contributors examine the impact of EU integration and membership, with chapters on the 12 new EU entrants since 2004: Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Cyprus, Malta, Bulgaria, and Romania. Utilizing a common analytical framework, each of the country case studies examines the impact of EU membership on the foreign policies of the new member states in three key areas: foreign policy making institutions and procedures, interests and preferences, and strategies and actions. The New Member States and the European Union will be of interest to students and scholars of European Studies and European Union Politics.



Interest Representation and Europeanization of Trade Unions from EU Member States of the Eastern Enlargement

Author : Christin Landgraf

Publisher : Ibidem Press

Page : 322 pages

File Size : 48,83 MB

Release : 2015

Category : Labor unions

ISBN : 9783838207445

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This book examines the integration of trade unions from the six biggest countries of the EU's Eastern enlargement of EU governance structures. Based on more than 150 in-depth interviews, comprehensive data, document research, and eight detailed case studies, contributions describe the activities and perceptions of the trade unions under investigation and different levels of engagement, including European umbrella organizations, interregional cooperation, and European Works Councils. The book contributes to political science research on interest representation and Europeanization, as well as sociological research on labor relations.



The Europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe

Author : Frank Schimmelfennig

Publisher : Cornell University Press

Page : 278 pages

File Size : 14,39 MB

Release : 2005

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780801489617

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This book demonstrates the importance of the credibility and the costs of accession conditionality for the adoption of EU rules in Central and Eastern Europe.



The European Union and the Member States

Author : Eleanor E. Zeff

Publisher :

Page : 520 pages

File Size : 36,58 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Law

ISBN :

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Praise for the 1st Edition?This is a rich and timely volume full of novel glimpses into areas of perennial policy concern ... as well as a host of less familiar concerns.... The extremely readable efforts to make sense of policy conundrums means the book may be used quite profitably in the classroom, and the very fact that all member states are covered testifies to the project?s considerable comparative breadth.??William M. Downs, The Journal of PoliticsThoroughly updated, this new edition of The European Union and the Member States explores the complex relationship between the EU and each of its now 25 members.The country chapters follow a common format, considering: How and in what areas does EU policy affect, and how is it affected by, the member states? What mechanisms do the member states use to implement EU policy? What is each state?s compliance record?Covering the full range of issues?from economic, social, and environmental, to security, to home and justice affairs?the authors offer an insightful discussion of the interplay of EU initiatives with strong, existing national policies and traditions.Eleanor E. Zeff is associate professor of political science at Drake University. Ellen B. Pirro is president of Pirro International Research.Contents: Introduction?the Editors. Policymaking and Politics in the New European Union?J. McCormick. Early Union Members. Germany?C. Lankowski. Italy?M. Giuliani and S. Piattoni. Belgium and Luxembourg?K. Anderson. France?C. Deubner. The Second Wave. The UK?N. Nugent and J. Mather. Ireland?R.B. Finnegan. Denmark?E. Einhorn. The Mediterranean Round. Greece?N. Zahariadis. Spain and Portugal?S. Royo. The 1995 Enlargement. Austria?G. Faulkner. Sweden?J. Eliasson. Finland?T. Raunio. The 2004 Enlargement. Poland?A. Gruszczak. Hungary?D. Ellison. Malta and Cyprus?R. Pace. Slovenia and Slovakia?J. Occhipinti. The Czech Republic?S. Fisher. The Baltic States?S. Stoltenberg. Conclusion. Conclusion?the Editors.



The Member States of the European Union

Author : Simon Bulmer

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 479 pages

File Size : 44,10 MB

Release : 2013

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0199544832

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This is a comprehensive and rounded thematic study of the EU-member states. The text provides detailed coverage of the principal member states and comparative studies of the smaller states, as well as discussing the issue of enlargement and covering empirical themes.



Europeanization and European Integration

Author : R. Coman

Publisher : Springer

Page : 199 pages

File Size : 49,64 MB

Release : 2014-09-17

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 113732550X

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After two decades of research into the impact of the EU on domestic politics and policies, this book explores the relationship between Europeanization and EU integration. It argues that Europeanization should be considered as a stage in the development of EU integration as well as questioning the notion of incremental Europeanization.



Transforming Europe

Author : Maria Green Cowles

Publisher : Cornell University Press

Page : 287 pages

File Size : 30,42 MB

Release : 2018-08-06

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 150172357X

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Does the European Union change the domestic politics and institutions of its member states? Many studies of EU decisionmaking in Brussels pay little attention to the potential domestic impact of European integration. Transforming Europe traces the effects of Europeanization on the EU member states. The various chapters, based on cutting-edge research, examine the impact of the EU on national court systems, territorial politics, societal networks, public discourse, identity, and citizenship norms.The European Union, the authors find, does indeed make a difference—even in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. In many cases EU rules and regulations incompatible with domestic institutions have created pressure for national governments to adapt. This volume examines the conditions under which this "adaptational pressure" has led to institutional change in the member states.



The Europeanization of America

Author : Thomas Covell Fischer

Publisher :

Page : 366 pages

File Size : 19,5 MB

Release : 1995

Category : Law

ISBN : 9780890897515

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This book provides a comprehensive examination of events in Europe and the European Community's progress toward "union" from legal, economic, and public policy perspectives. It is intended for the general reader, but contains details of particular interest to lawyers, law students, business persons, and students of public policy and economics. This book is unlike other treatments of the subject in that it presumes a distinctly American audience. Fischer takes great pains to explain events in Europe, the EU's long-term aims, and its potential to achieve them in terms that Americans can relate to and understand. His work largely focuses on the EU's impact on America's economic well-being until the turn of the century. The book is comprehensive and readable, using references to laws, case decisions, programs and policies of the European Union to illustrate its operations, aims, and prospects for the future. "This book, well written and clear..., will largely interest students and faculty specializing in the EU." -- CHOICE Magazine, June 1996



Europeanization and Territorial Politics in Small European Unitary States

Author : Sandrina Antunes

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 45,56 MB

Release : 2023-09-25

Category :

ISBN : 9780367629656

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The book addresses the impact of the European Union (EU) on subnational mobilization in small unitary states. Located at the intersection of contributions from the literatures on multilevel governance and Europeanization, this book offers a new theoretical framework to account for state rescaling processes in small unitary states. By means of a comparative analysis of eight small unitary states in Europe, this book shows that the impact of the EU on subnational mobilization is filtered through domestic mediating factors which can lead to three possible outcomes: decentralization, recentralization or no change. The book offers a balanced combination of analytical clarity and the richness of empirical accounts in a wide diversity of case studies. It sheds a new light on the 'hybrid nature' of the European polity and demonstrates that member state governments have remained the most important pieces of the European puzzle. Overall, it arrives at two conclusions: first, that we are witnessing a 'transformation of the state' rather than its demise; second, the notion of a 'Europe of the Regions' in small unitary states was no more than a 'damp squib'. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, Regional & Federal Studies.



Europeanization and New Member States

Author : Flavia Jurje

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 196 pages

File Size : 42,67 MB

Release : 2013-04-12

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1135927480

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This book examines the Europeanization of the polity and politics of a new EU Member State. Using social network analysis in a comparative research design, it provides a systematic analysis of the effects of Europeanization on the institutions, policy processes, power constellation and conflict among national elites. Providing a detailed case study on Romania in comparative perspective, the book analyses the impact of the European Union integration process on decision-making in six policy networks to develop a cross-sector and cross-time comparative analysis. It explores mandatory EU requirements in the area of immigration and asylum and the implementation of various EU directives during the negotiation period as well as post-integration. It also examines soft/non-mandatory Europeanization in the social sector and investigates a third control case on a domestic reform, fiscal decentralization in the education sector, where the EU influence is absent. Measuring the impact of Europeanization both before and after integration, this book has considerable implications for the study of current and future candidate states. It will be of interest to students and scholars of EU enlargement, Europeanization studies, European politics, especially Central and Eastern European politics.