European Union

Jeremy Richardson is an Emeritus Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, UK, and Adjunct Professor at the National Centre for Research on Europe, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He is also Founder and Co-editor of the Journal of European Public PolicySonia Mazey is a Professor and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the College of Business and Law, University of Canterbury, New Zealand and formally a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, UK

• PART 1 STATE BUILDING, DIFFERENTIATED INTEGRATION AND A MULTISPEED EUROPE 1. The EU as a policy-making state: a policy system like any other? . The EU as a system of differentiated integration: a challenge for theories of European integration? 3. The politics of multispeed integration in the European Union PART 2: INSTITUTIONAL PROCESSING 4. The European Commission Arndt Wonka 5. The EU’s multilevel parliamentary system 6. The Councils of the EU: intergovernmental bargaining in a supranational polity 7. The shadow of case law: the Court of Justice of the European union and the policy process 8. The distribution of power among institutions 9. The EU budget: which fiscal capacity at the European level? 10. EU agencies PART 3: VARIEGATED POLICY-MAKING 11. EU enlargement 12. The EU as an international actor 13. European regulation 14. European macroeconomic governance 15. Covert integration in the European Union 16. Implementation PART 4: CHANNELS OF REPRESENTATION 17. European elections and the European voter 18. Shooting where the ducks are: EU lobbying and institutionalized promiscuity 19. Bypassing the nation state? Regions and the EU policy process 20. Political Representation and democracy in the EU