Participation and Policy Making in the European Union

The variety of views that are brought together provide a more comprehensive, indepth understanding of what are very complex processes. Their wide scope makes them of interest to anyone engaging with the European process or the evolution of business representation and public-private relations. - Hannah Tooze. Local Government Studies.

• Introductory Foreword ; 1. Introduction ; 2. The Growth and Differentiation of Multi-Level Networks: A Corporatist Mega-Bureaucracy or an Open City? ; 3. Organized Interests in European Integration: The Evolution of a New Type of Governance ; 4. Making and Enforcing Regulatory Policy in the Single Market ; 5. The Commission as an Actor: An Anthropologist's View ; 6. Organizing Industrial Coalitions: A Challenge for the Future? ; 7. The Interplay of Corporate, National, and European Interests ; 8. The Changing Dynamic of EU-Industry Relations: Lessons from the Liberalization of European Car and Airline Markets ; 9. Big Firms as Political Actors: Corporate Power and the Governance of the European Consumer Electronics Industry ; 10. Consumption without Representation? Consumers in the Single Market ; 11. The Kaleidoscope of European Policy-Making: Shifting Patterns of Participation and Influence