Erik Jones is Professor of European Studies at the SAIS Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University. He has taught previously at the University of Nottingham and the Central European University and he was a research fellow a the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels.

This is a valuable book, which deserves to be read by scholars and students interested in policy-making in Belgium and the Netherlands as well as those interested in the political development of small European states and the complex interplay between various domestic interest groups and institutions, and between the national and European levels of policy-making more generally.

• Introduction ; 1. The Politics of Economic Adjustment ; 2. Consensual Adjustment in Consociational Democracy ; 3. The Implications of Change ; 4. 'Consensual' Adjustment in Post-Consociational Democracy ; Conclusion ; References

Erik Jones is Professor of European Studies at the SAIS Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University. He has taught previously at the University of Nottingham and the Central European University and he was a research fellow a the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels.

This is a valuable book, which deserves to be read by scholars and students interested in policy-making in Belgium and the Netherlands as well as those interested in the political development of small European states and the complex interplay between various domestic interest groups and institutions, and between the national and European levels of policy-making more generally.

• Introduction ; 1. The Politics of Economic Adjustment ; 2. Consensual Adjustment in Consociational Democracy ; 3. The Implications of Change ; 4. 'Consensual' Adjustment in Post-Consociational Democracy ; Conclusion ; References