Jack Hayward is Research Professor at the University of Hull and a Fellow of the British Academy.Anand Menon is Director of the European Research Institute, Birmingham University

• Foreword ; Introduction: Grappling with Untidy Reality ; 1. Institutions and the Evolution of European Democracy ; 2. National Courts and the Community Law ; THE CORE EXECUTIVE ; 3. On Studying Governments ; 4. What is New about Governance and Why does it Matter ; 5. Executives in Comparative Context ; 6. The Political System of the European Union ; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ; 7. Dismantling and Rebuilding the Weberian State ; 8. The Age of Administrative Reforms ; 9. The European Administration: Between Europeanization and Domostication ; 10. Europeanization and the Persistence of Administrative Systems ; PARTIES AND ORGANIZED INTEREST ; 11. The Decline of Party ; 12. Comparing Economic Interest Organizations ; 13. Interest Groups and the Brussels Bureaucracy ; DEMOCRACY AND POPULAR PARTICIPATION ; 14. Contentious Politics in Western Europe and the United States ; 15. From Popular Dissatisfaction to Populism: Democracy, Constitutionalism and Corruption ; 16. Democratizations in the European Periphery ; PUBLIC POLICY ; 17. The Politics of Regulation and European Regulatory Institutions ; 18. From Industrial Policy to a Regulatory State: constrasting institutional change in Britain and France ; 19. Monetary Policy and the Euro ; 20. Recasting European Welfare States ; THE STATE ; 21. The Changing European State ; 22. The European State ; 23. International Relations, International Institutions and the European State ; Conclusion: Governing Europe ; Bibliography

Jack Hayward is Research Professor at the University of Hull and a Fellow of the British Academy.Anand Menon is Director of the European Research Institute, Birmingham University

• Foreword ; Introduction: Grappling with Untidy Reality ; 1. Institutions and the Evolution of European Democracy ; 2. National Courts and the Community Law ; THE CORE EXECUTIVE ; 3. On Studying Governments ; 4. What is New about Governance and Why does it Matter ; 5. Executives in Comparative Context ; 6. The Political System of the European Union ; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ; 7. Dismantling and Rebuilding the Weberian State ; 8. The Age of Administrative Reforms ; 9. The European Administration: Between Europeanization and Domostication ; 10. Europeanization and the Persistence of Administrative Systems ; PARTIES AND ORGANIZED INTEREST ; 11. The Decline of Party ; 12. Comparing Economic Interest Organizations ; 13. Interest Groups and the Brussels Bureaucracy ; DEMOCRACY AND POPULAR PARTICIPATION ; 14. Contentious Politics in Western Europe and the United States ; 15. From Popular Dissatisfaction to Populism: Democracy, Constitutionalism and Corruption ; 16. Democratizations in the European Periphery ; PUBLIC POLICY ; 17. The Politics of Regulation and European Regulatory Institutions ; 18. From Industrial Policy to a Regulatory State: constrasting institutional change in Britain and France ; 19. Monetary Policy and the Euro ; 20. Recasting European Welfare States ; THE STATE ; 21. The Changing European State ; 22. The European State ; 23. International Relations, International Institutions and the European State ; Conclusion: Governing Europe ; Bibliography

Jack Hayward is Research Professor at the University of Hull and a Fellow of the British Academy.Anand Menon is Director of the European Research Institute, Birmingham University

• Foreword ; Introduction: Grappling with Untidy Reality ; 1. Institutions and the Evolution of European Democracy ; 2. National Courts and the Community Law ; THE CORE EXECUTIVE ; 3. On Studying Governments ; 4. What is New about Governance and Why does it Matter ; 5. Executives in Comparative Context ; 6. The Political System of the European Union ; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ; 7. Dismantling and Rebuilding the Weberian State ; 8. The Age of Administrative Reforms ; 9. The European Administration: Between Europeanization and Domostication ; 10. Europeanization and the Persistence of Administrative Systems ; PARTIES AND ORGANIZED INTEREST ; 11. The Decline of Party ; 12. Comparing Economic Interest Organizations ; 13. Interest Groups and the Brussels Bureaucracy ; DEMOCRACY AND POPULAR PARTICIPATION ; 14. Contentious Politics in Western Europe and the United States ; 15. From Popular Dissatisfaction to Populism: Democracy, Constitutionalism and Corruption ; 16. Democratizations in the European Periphery ; PUBLIC POLICY ; 17. The Politics of Regulation and European Regulatory Institutions ; 18. From Industrial Policy to a Regulatory State: constrasting institutional change in Britain and France ; 19. Monetary Policy and the Euro ; 20. Recasting European Welfare States ; THE STATE ; 21. The Changing European State ; 22. The European State ; 23. International Relations, International Institutions and the European State ; Conclusion: Governing Europe ; Bibliography