Globalisation and EU policy-making : the neo-liberal transformation of telecommunications and electricity
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Globalisation and EU policy-making : the neo-liberal transformation of telecommunications and electricity
（European policy research unit series）
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2005
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-222) and index
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Description
Assesses and contrasts the roles of globalisation, institutions and ideas on policy-making in the EU Views the creation of liberalised European single markets in the telecommunications and electricity supply sectors out of national monopolies as an example of the dramatic transformation of economic organisation across Europe in the last twenty years Connects micro policy-making processes in two industrial sectors to macro international political economy Covers the period from the mid 1980s, when the single market came on the agenda, through the liberalising initiatives in the 1990s to the new regulatory framework in communications in 2002 and the 2003 directive on the full liberalisation of electricity by 2007 Will be of interest to anyone studying globalisation, European integration and policy-making, regulation and policy in utility sectors
Table of Contents
- Part I. Introduction
- Introduction
- 1. Globalisation and policy-making in the European Union
- Part II. EU policy-making and the primacy of techno-economic forces
- 2. The changing techno-economic context: globalisation, the IT revolution and pressures for liberalisation
- 3. From national monopoly to the liberalised single European market
- 4. Globalisation and supranationalism: the impact of technology and markets on the Commission and transnational interests
- 5. Globalisation and intergovernmentalism: the impact of technology and markets on national interests
- Part III. EU policy-making and the primacy of institutions and ideas
- 6. Institutions and EU policy-making
- 7. Ideas and EU policy-making
- 8. Conclusion: globalisation, institutions and ideas in the EU policy process.
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