Governance and Politics in the Post-Crisis European Union

Ramona Coman, Amandine Crespy, Vivien A. Schmidt

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781108600491
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: American Government
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The European Union of today cannot be studied as it once was. This original new textbook provides a much-needed update on how the EU's policies and institutions have changed in light of the multiple crises and transformations since 2010. An international team of leading scholars offer systematic accounts on the EU's institutional regime, policies, and its community of people and states. Each chapter is structured to explain the relevant historical developments and institutional framework, presenting the key actors, the current controversies and discussing a paradigmatic case study. Each chapter also provides ideas for group discussionsandindividual research topics. Moving away from the typical, neutral account of the functioning of the EU, this textbook will stimulate readers' critical thinking towards the EU as it is today. It will serve as a core text for undergraduate and graduate students of politics and European studies taking courses on the politics of the EU, and those taking courses in comparative politics and international organizations including the EU.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Chronology
• Glossary
• List of Abbreviations
• 1 Introduction: The European Union as a Political Regime, a Set of Policies and a Community after the Great Recession
• Part I The EU’s Political Regime
• Part II Key Policy Areas in Flux
• Part III Existential Debates
• Appendix 1 EU Institutions and Organs
• Appendix 2 Decision-Making in the EU: The Ordinary Legislative Procedure
• Appendix 3 Distribution of Competences between the EU and the Member States
• Appendix 4 Differentiated Integration and Varying Membership
• Appendix 5 Who is an EU Member State?
• Appendix 6 Who Does What in the EU?
• Index