European Politics Catalog 2013

Democracy Promotion in the EU’s Neighbourhood

From Leverage to Governance?

Edited by Sandra Lavenex, Frank Schimmelfennig

Series: Democratization Special Issues

EU external democracy promotion has traditionally been based on ‘linkage’, i.e. bottom-up support for democratic forces in third countries, and ‘leverage’, i.e. the top-down inducement of political elites towards democratic reforms through political conditionality. The advent of the European...

Published July 8th 2012 by Routledge

EU Strategies on Governance Reform

Between Development and State-building

Edited by Wil Hout

Series: ThirdWorlds

This book discusses the European Union’s approach to governance reform in its development assistance relationships with various groups of developing countries. A group of expert authors outline the general features of the position on governance taken by the EU, which is currently the major...

Published July 15th 2012 by Routledge

The Common Agricultural Policy

Policy Dynamics in a Changing Context

Edited by Grace Skogstad, Amy Verdun

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a unique agricultural policy worldwide. For many years, its status as the only common European Community (EC) policy governed by EC institutions put it at the heart of European integration. Today the CAP is not the only common European Union (EU) policy. Even...

Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge

The New Member States and the European Union

Foreign Policy and Europeanization

Edited by Michael Baun, Dan Marek

Series: Routledge Advances in European Politics

This book examines the impact of EU membership on the foreign policies of the 12 new member states that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007. Among scholars of European politics there is a general consensus that membership in the European Union changes the countries that join. Yet considerable debate...

Published February 10th 2013 by Routledge

Functional and Territorial Interest Representation in the EU

Edited by Michèle Knodt, Christine Quittkat, Justin Greenwood

Despite a substantial legacy of literature on EU interest representation, there is no systematic analysis available on whether a European model of interest representation in EU governance is detectable across functional, and territorial, categories of actors. ‘Functional’ actors include...

Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge