The Responsive Union

Christina J. Schneider is Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair of the EU at the University of California, San Diego. Professor Schneider previously published Conflict, Negotiation and European Union Enlargement (Cambridge, 2009). Her articles appear in the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, International Organization, and International Studies Quarterly, among others.

'Christina J. Schneider's book challenges two widely held ideas about how the EU works. Against the standard 'democratic deficit' claim, the book shows how governments are increasingly responsive to their citizens when acting at the European level. And, against the Liberal Intergovermentalist theory of EU politics, the book challenges the assumption that European level issues are not salient enough to warrant significant domestic contestation. As such, the book is a major contribution to how the EU should be understand going forward.' Simon Hix, Harold Laski Professor of Political Science, and Academic Director at the London School of Economics and Political Science

• 1. Responsive governance in the European Union; 2. The politicization of European cooperation; 3. Signals of responsiveness – a theory; 4. The EU-aware voter; 5. The EU budget: financially trivial, politically substantial; 6. Triumph and agony in the 2007–13 MFF negotiations; 7. The legislative leviathan marionette; 8. The waiting game: aprés les élections, le déluge; 9. When the music stops: the German politics of the Greek; 10. The European republic; References; Index.