European integration after Amsterdam : institutional dynamics and prospects for democracy

Author(s)

• Neunreither, Karlheinz
• Wiener, Antje

Bibliographic Information

European integration after Amsterdam : institutional dynamics and prospects for democracy

edited by Karlheinz Neunreither and Antje Wiener

Oxford University Press, 2000

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-378) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

European integration is at a turning point with implications for all member states and their citizens. The book examines the process of European integration and highlights issues of institutional dynamics and prospects for democracy.

Table of Contents

• 1. Introduction: Amsterdam and beyond
• PART I: CHANGING INSTITUTIONS
• 2. The Amsterdam Treaty: The blueprint for the future institutional balance?
• 3. The European Commission: A balancing act between autonomy and dependence
• 4. The Slow March of European Legislation: The implementation of directives
• 5. Beyond Amsterdam: Regional integration as social process
• PART II: PROSPECTS FOR DEMOCRACY
• 6. Executive Selection in the European Union: Does the Commission President investiture procedure reduce the democratic deficit?
• 7. Justifying Comitology: The promise of deliberation
• 8. Political Representation in the EU: A common whole, various wholes or just a hole?
• PART III: FLEXIBILITY AND THE CHALLENGE OF ENLARGEMENT
• 9. Negotiating Flexible Integration in the Amsterdam Treaty
• 10. Flexibility: A tool of integration or a restraint on disintegration?
• 11. Abuses of Asymmetry: Privilege and exclusion
• 12. East of Adam: The implications for eastern enlargement of the Amsterdam Treaty
• PART IV: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE
• 13. Precedents and Present Events: An institutional perspective on treaty reform
• 14. A Blairite Treaty: Neo-liberalism and regulated capitalism in the Treaty of Amsterdam
• 15. Constitutional Settlements and the Citizen after the Treaty of Amsterdam
• 16. The Embedded Acquis Communautaire: Transmission belt and prism of new governance

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA46116608
• ISBN:
  • 019829641X
  • 0198296401
• LCCN: 99051896
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 384 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 341.2422
  • LCC : JN30
• Subject Headings:
  • BLSH : European Union
  • BLSH : Treaty of Amsterdam
  • LCSH : European federation
  • LCSH : European Union
  • LCSH : Democracy