Handbook of European Policies

Edited by Hubert Heinelt, Professor for Public Administration, Public Policy and Urban Research, Institute for Political Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt and Sybille Münch, Professor of Political Science and Director, Center for Diversity, Democracy and Inclusion in Education, Hildesheim University, Germany

'A welcome addition to the established range of collections on European integration, this Handbook on interpretive EU policy studies sets out to carve out a new niche in the field of European integration studies. As the 20 contributions by leading authors in the field demonstrate most impressively, this is just the tip of the iceberg of much research that is still to come. It will be interesting to watch how interfaces between the root disciplines of interpretivist methodology in international relations theory and European integration theories form, based on this important publication. Definitively worthwhile reading for all interested in approaches to policymaking in the EU, especially in times of crisis.' --Antje Wiener, University of Hamburg, Germany and University of Cambridge, UK'Until recently European Studies was the taken for granted domain of mainstream political science. Its vocabulary has been that of states, rational actors, institutions, power, principal-agent relationships, and rational games. By introducing an interpretive approach to European Studies this excellent volume significantly broadens the intellectual horizon of the field. The contributors ask important new research questions and introduce new analytical tools (such as frame and discourse analysis) that will set the field's agenda for years to come.'--Hendrik Wagenaar, University of Sheffield, UK

• Contents:IntroductionHubert Heinelt and Sybille MünchPART I1. The constructivist turn in EU public policy approachesSabine Saurugger2. The role of ideas and discourse in European integrationVivien A. Schmidt3. EU policies and the Europeanization of domestic policymakingClaudio M. Radaelli4. How to explain discursive change: An actor-centered approach to interpretive explanationFrank Nullmeier5. The framing of EU policiesFalk DaviterPART II6. EU agricultural policyPeter H. Feindt7. The structural funds and EU cohesion policyHubert Heinelt and Wolfgang Petzold8. European spatial planning policy Rob Atkinson and Karsten Zimmermann9. EU consumer policy Katharina T. Paul and Holger Straßheim10. EU trade policyYelter Bollen11. EU environmental policyMiranda A. Schreurs12. EU energy policyMichèle Knodt13. EU research, technological development and innovation policyPeter Biegelbauer and Matthias Weber14. European higher education policy Dorota Dakowska and Kathia Serrano Velarde15. EU foreign policyXymena Kurowska16. EU development policySarah Delputte and Jan Orbie17. EU migration and asylum policiesSybille Münch18. EU gender equality policies Johanna Kantola and Emanuela LombardoPART III19. Think tanks in EU public policies Jesper Dahl Kelstrup20. Strategic use and social taming – Opening up the doctrine of market competition in public procurementDetlef Sack and E. K. SarterIndex