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Book SynopsisThe European Union began in 1957 as a treaty among six nations but today constitutes a supranational polity - one that creates rules that are binding on its 15 member countries and their citizens. This majesterial study confronts some of the most enduring questions posed by the remarkable evolution of the EU: Why does policy-making sometimes migrate from the member states to the European Union? And why has integration proceeded more rapidly in some policy domains than in others? A distinguished team of scholars lead by Wayne Sandholtz and Alec Stone Sweet offers a fresh theory and clear propositions on the development of the EU. Combining broad data and probing case studies, the volume finds solid support for these propositions in a variety of policy domains. The coherent theoretical approach and extensive empirical analyses together constitute a significant challenge to approaches that see the EU as a straightforward product of member-state interests, power, and bargaining. This volum
Trade ReviewThe original essays collected and presented by Sandholtz and Stone Sweet go a very long way in convincingly arguing, in a theoretical, historical and empirical mood, that in fact the European Union has moved away from intergovernmentalism and step by step is appraching supranational governance. * Gianfranco Pasquino, West European Politics.Vol.23, No.2. *
Table of Contents1. Integration, Supranational Governance, and the Institutionalization of the European Polity ; 2. The Path to European Integration: A Historical-Institutionalist Analysis ; 3. The Institutional Terrain of the European Union ; 4. From Free Trade to Supranational Polity: The European Court and Integration ; 5. The Emergence of a Supranational Telecommunications Regime ; 6. The National Liberalization and European Reregulation of Air Transport ; 7. Creating Supranational Authority in Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy: The Sources and Effects of EMU ; 8. The Engines of Integration?: The Autonomy and Influence of Supranational Organizations ; 9. Citizen Support for Policy-Integration ; 10. Institution-Building from below and above: The European Community in Global Environmental Politics ; 11. Rules, Transgovernmentalism, and European Political Cooperation ; 12. Regional Integration Theory: Understanding Our Past, Anticipating Our Future
